Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can think of dozens of Corbetts which are finer mountains in every way than many of their higher counterparts in the Munro bracket . |
| 2 | Nitrite can then react , mainly in the stomach , with a wide variety of compounds which are ubiquitous components of the diet , to form N-nitroso compounds . |
| 3 | Thus , in order to increase the perceived representativeness of the National Council of the Resistance and to dilute the influence of the Communist Party within it , he insisted that all the major prewar parties — even the centrist and conservative parties which were mere phantoms in 1943 — should be represented in it alongside the new resistance movements . |
| 4 | Zips : a double zip which is smooth running with an inner draught baffle . |
| 5 | Illustrator can also produce colour traps which are extra rings of colour around an area of colour which is going to be printed over another . |
| 6 | He was shocked to see that this beard , unlike his hair and whiskers which were dark brown in colour , was sprouting with an atheistical tint of ginger , only a little darker than the whiskers of the free-thinking Magistrate . |
| 7 | They are centres of friendship where relationships which are light-hearted combine with the serious business of running a school on corporate lines . |
| 8 | The curving pond , flanked with stunning peonies which were another legacy of the garden and thrive in London 's clay-based soil , is an experiment , says Patricia , that she intends to improve on this summer . |
| 9 | The crystal will only let through light which is polarised perpendicular to a certain axis , called the crystal 's optical axis . |
| 10 | While most of the sectors which are expanding employment in the economy are services , there is also a group of new and growing manufacturing industries . |
| 11 | Lastly , on systems with zone control , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve which is isolating part of the system . |
| 12 | Lunatic to reckon that it would work for him … but only as stupid as the acceptance of the alternative which was fourteen years in the camps . |
| 13 | Film was nothing in itself but what had confirmed its worthlessness was that it seemed the exclusive property of a class of showmen who were direct descendants of the old fairground showmen . |
| 14 | Like other pit trading exchanges , LIFFE hosts a number of floor traders who are individual members of the exchange and who conduct business on their own account rather than on behalf of clients . |
| 15 | We need clergy who are former pupils of St Hugh 's to assist in a concelebrated mass and to pledge support for the future . |
| 16 | The two men charged are Alan Hill who 's joint master of the Vale of Aylesbury hunt and another huntsman Gordon Middleton . |
| 17 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 18 | Gentlemen who were early baronets of Scotland were authorised to charge their arms with a canton ( or escutcheon ) carrying the arms of the province of Nova Scotia — argent on a saltire azure an escutcheon of the Royal Amis of Scotland . |
| 19 | St Jovite , Europe 's leading colt who is 6–4 favourite for the Arc , runs in the Champion Stakes at Leopardtown today . |
| 20 | The evidence that exists , however , suggests that subjects who are weak images in the waking state are just as likely to report hypnagogic images as those who are strong images . |
| 21 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 22 | Isaiah Berlin has pointed to the uncertainty in Marx 's attitude to this ‘ the most central of all the concepts of his system ’ and to his failure to reconcile the two views he expresses : the one , that in unalienated labour there is perfect freedom for the fullest realisation of human potential and happiness ; the other , that ‘ the need for this minimum of toil is an inescapable fact of physical nature which it is mere Utopianism to hope to conjure away ’ . |
| 23 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were two pronunciations of ME a in use in Standard English ’ ( 1968 II : 548 ) . |
| 24 | Within the ruling National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition there was growing criticism of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , and of her inner Cabinet of advisors headed by Lacayo , on the grounds that she had made an " illegitimate and immoral marriage " with the FSLN . |
| 25 | During the spring there were renewed reports of increasing tension in some areas . |
| 26 | In the schools there was concerned doubt about what to do for best , whether to integrate or segregate , and in some quarters the hesitant activity seemed to be salvation through Art and Crafts . |
| 27 | Along the edge of the Cromarty Firth there were more seagulls in the fields than over the whole of Lewis . |
| 28 | In the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary there are eight meanings of ‘ appear ’ listed . |
| 29 | As a result there is some prospect of schools once more becoming places where children are expected to learn and teachers to teach . |
| 30 | As a result there were many instances of incorrect use and reports of inadequate performance that were not always justified . |