Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 3 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 4 | As Lindblom has pointed out , however , it is by no means wholly destroyed , since ‘ [ m ] onopoly weakens responses to popular control , but it neither eliminates a response or leads to a perverse one … |
| 5 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 6 | It coats the artichoke or leaves in a rich and langourous fashion . |
| 7 | That 's the thinking that lies behind the huge number of initiatives being taken by environmental organisations as their contribution to the Earth Summit . |
| 8 | and is that the thinking that lies behind the eventual getting of Terry Wogan and Angela Rippon ? |
| 9 | JEWKES ] Some melancholy hangs on her spirits ; she seems affected by a grief that rises from no common cause . |
| 10 | Through this relationship , they can also be a record of the life force that exists at a certain site . |
| 11 | Most people who have travelled through the Monkton district of Ayrshire will have noticed the monument that stands on the high ground behind the Dutch House Caravan Park , and wondered what it is and why it is there . |
| 12 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 13 | There may nonetheless be a genetic predisposition that leads to the mood-altering substance providing the perceived perfect solution to this quest for unconditional love . |
| 14 | Suddenly , the group has hijacked his campaign ; nominated Bernie Grant as his running mate ( sinking Ann Clwyd 's bid for the deputy leadership in in the process ) ; and put out a policy programme that reeks of the old 1970s left . |
| 15 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 16 | The performance , too , often lacks the sort of tension that makes for a live musical experience . |
| 17 | Other accessories are the intarsia carriage ( AG20 ) for picture knitting ; the transfer carriage ( RT1 ) for transferring stitches from the ribber to the main bed and the Automatic Linker ( SC3 ) — this is not a large piece of equipment , but a small carriage that fits on the main bed . |
| 18 | Early one morning , we tried to find a clerk in a department that sprawls across a full floor . |
| 19 | The simplest way is to freeze into the matrix a precursor that decomposes to the desired fragment when irradiated with light . |
| 20 | The back has deep , '50s-style chest-contouring , and the whole body is finished in a delicately-sprayed sunburst that darkens from a deep yellow at the centre to a medium orange at the edges . |
| 21 | Any structural fault that detracts from the above described working dog must be penalized to the extent of the deviation . |
| 22 | The settings mingled with Maeterlinck and Debussy invisibly ; the whispering wind , echoes and shadows , all the invisible shaping powers in a love tragedy that comes to a cruel climax because of the chattering of an innocent child … |
| 23 | We should encourage a growing body of Community practice that builds upon the excellent subsidiarity article 3b in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 24 | It 's a car that builds on the 25 's strong points and makes huge advances in refinement , build quality and styling in its own right . |
| 25 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 26 | Then there 's another neck that comes across the other way and you can tune the strings any way you want ; I basically tune to groups of diatonic notes with whatever melody I want to play . |
| 27 | We have recently cloned cDNA encoding the large subunit of TFIIF that interacts with the small subunit in vivo and shown that bacterially expressed proteins of both could replace the transcription initiation activity of native TFIIF ( 20 ) . |
| 28 | Outside the sky is still overcast , and the murky yellow light that filters through the vertical louvres of the window blinds is hardly enough to read by . |
| 29 | ‘ He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them , the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ ’ ( 2 Cor. |
| 30 | They estimated y ( the extra term that appears in the no-arbitrage condition of a geometric index discussed in Section 5.2.9 ) , using the returns for the most recent 20 days , and found the resulting estimate was reasonably stable over time at an annual rate of 5.77% . |