Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 2 | Trim away excess and place the base on to the cake drum . |
| 3 | Indeed , the JMU will automatically consider adding an investment business inspection on to an audit monitoring visit to an authorised firm . |
| 4 | Zigzagging our way down the street we saw a car coming towards us and thought some terrible error had allowed the driver on to the toboggan track . |
| 5 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 6 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 7 | Many scientists were astonished at home that evening to see the faces of the two chemists appearing on the television as Dan Rather on the CBS evening news headlined the Utah work as ‘ a remarkable breakthrough ’ . |
| 8 | When anything like this happened , every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department . |
| 9 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |
| 10 | There is nothing in the Children Act 1989 which provides for the court to tack any direction on to a care order and I have to say that , in my judgment , the addition of a direction of any sort to a care order is a fetter on the local authority plans , authority and responsibility . |
| 11 | That quick route on to the statute book was agreed after talks between Scottish Office ministers and Labour MPs . |
| 12 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 13 | Completion date will be February 1994 with a final addition made in the summer of that year to blister the stand on to the north stand . |
| 14 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 15 | The Scots fear discrimination most in the livestock sector where lower limits on qualifying numbers for production subsidies would be particularly painful . |
| 16 | The more advanced monkeys or apes do not have any kind of protective armour and use brain rather than brawn to solve their problems , but the slow-moving little relative of the bushbabies known as Bosman 's potto does have a secret defence rather like the hero shrew 's . |
| 17 | The crew of the Mystic 60 Elysia included in their pre-race manoeuvres an attempt to catapult water bombs on to the warship committee boat . |
| 18 | Better still , the whole board should be protected within a framework rather like a picture frame with its face covered with clear polycarbonate sheet . |
| 19 | Of all the competing political parties , only the " Lithuanian Communist Party on the CPSU platform " ( a breakaway faction of the CPL , which favoured continued subordination to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and drew its support overwhelmingly from the minority Russian , Byelorussian and Polish populations — ibid. ) did not campaign with a pro-independence manifesto . |
| 20 | Beside the Ridgeway and effectively parallel to it as a lower level ran the Terrace-way , here called by the later name of " Pilgrims ' Way " , which passes through Upper and North Hailing to a crossing presumably in the Rochester area . |
| 21 | ‘ There is a solid look right through the Portadown team and they have good back-up as well if players are injured or suspended . ’ |
| 22 | In the US election , commentators are bemoaning the lack of international issues , but they are still markedly more present than here : President George Bush and Bill Clinton are arguing over how and when to help the former Soviet states , Clinton is proposing to allow Japan and Germany on to the Security Council of the UN , all candidates have a figure for American troop presence in Europe , ranging from Bush 's 150,000 to Jerry Brown 's 1,000 , with a European force of 1,000 stationed in the US . |
| 23 | Returning to the main road , which is very good , we cross the plateau and pass a small reservoir on the left-hand side with views down to the south side of the island and the sea . |
| 24 | ‘ Here we are , ’ gushed the presenter of Gardeners ' World , ‘ we 're in my very favourite corner of the estate now , with its magnificent , sweeping views down to the river.just look at this superb example of Metasequoiaglyptostroboides , or Dawn Redwood to give it its more familiar name , I do n't think I 've ever seen a better specimen anywhere . |
| 25 | As a result of this pessimism , many important administrative arrangements were settled late in the day in many cases only after the Munich crisis of September 1938 , as in the case of food distribution and transport . |
| 26 | These are nervous times down at the Manor Ground . |
| 27 | arabiensis in the Sudan , show resistance to malathion only in the adult stage and it seems evident that such resistance was not in fact selected by agricultural usage . |
| 28 | He found the list of farmhouses along with the radio operator 's log in one of his file boxes . |
| 29 | She ran her fingers gently over the manila surface and felt the outline of something small and cold inside . |
| 30 | Approaching from a direction opposite to the outbound leg , or at a large angle , will mean a procedure turn , or a parallel procedure . |