Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 2 | If you want a conventional light switch to control the new lights , run the sub-circuit cable to a four-terminal junction box first , and connect the new switch cable tin to it before running cable on to the new lights . |
| 3 | It is easy to imagine how the early inhabitants of the Middle Fast , and in particular the ancient Egyptians , could have converted this African race into a domestic partner and there is little doubt that this is what occurred , with the more northerly European form being left out of the story altogether in the initial stages . |
| 4 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 5 | This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments . |
| 6 | To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation . |
| 7 | Take a holistic view of the business and manage operations effectively across the key functions ( e.g. Finance , Human Resources , Information Systems and Marketing ) |
| 8 | She wanted nothing at all from her father and she was about to tell Alain Lemarchand so in no uncertain terms . |
| 9 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 10 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 11 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
| 12 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 13 | I watched it course in up the dry fjords , finding its correct level , until the two of us , the big man and I , were standing aloft , looking out from our vantage point over the primordial scene , the liquid heart of England . |
| 14 | The law of breach of confidence can supplement copyright and patent protection especially in the early stages when there is nothing tangible or substantial enough for copyright or patent to protect . |
| 15 | These jobs also enabled the mixed-race people to band together into tightly knit communities , where they could keep their existence constantly before the white masters whose earlier sexual peccadillos had brought them into being . |
| 16 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 17 | He regrets that ‘ language , which adapts itself for the most part only to the common uses of life , has provided us with no single-worded or immediate designation ’ for the impression . |
| 18 | This means that , effectively , there are clinics only in the larger cities . |
| 19 | Say the following sentences up to time and you may have little difficulty in including the missing words shown by the dots . |
| 20 | Although in terms of quantity more pottery has survived , it is the combination of the quantity of coins together with the official inscriptions and designs they bear that have made them more precisely datable than any other common class of artefact . |
| 21 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 22 | This theory of scientific development has been contested ; others have pointed to more incremental patterns , or to cases especially in the social sciences where paradigms do not displace each other but simply accumulate as alternative perspectives . |
| 23 | On the face of it , there would seem to have been quite a strong case for handing over the division to the Soviet authorities along with the other formations originating form territories controlled by the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Middleton finds Rocky on at the Mongolian flicks ; Vickers listens to Elvis and Buddy Holly on a Kazakh collective farm . |
| 25 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 26 | This gives names of cities , towns , villages , rivers , lakes etc. in the British Isles with details of situations , populations and , in the case of large towns or cities , of government buildings . |
| 27 | This extends to his judicious choice of tempi which thankfully avoids the ‘ brakes on for the big melodies ’ approach , which in some versions comes close to collapsing the entire edifice under its own emotional weight . |
| 28 | William bounced down the stairs , a grinning schoolboy again , and he could hear other voices somewhere in the upper reaches . |
| 29 | Use a little royal icing to cement the two pieces of roof on to the sloping sides of the house , propping up the eaves with toothpicks too if necessary . |
| 30 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |