Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CD 's notes for writing the first instalment of Hard Times reveal that the object of his satire here was ‘ Marlborough House Doctrine ’ and ‘ Cole ’ , i.e. Henry Cole ( 1808–82 ) , civil servant and one of the main organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 2 | I have some hesitation about accepting the second leg of the ratio decidendi in the circumstances but that is certainly the way in which Fox L.J . |
| 3 | Later this year the DTI will be issuing a consultative document on its proposals for implementing the Third Life Insurance Directive , which is due to come into operation by mid-1994 and which will enable an insurer to offer insurance anywhere in the Community on the basis of a single authorisation in the state where its head office is situated . |
| 4 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 5 | Bracewell 's bitter blast came just 72 hours after collecting the fourth loser 's FA Cup medal of his career . |
| 6 | Gryschenko , 42 , from Kiev , had had grave doubts about doing the first leg of the race . |
| 7 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 8 | Stirling should have made sure of victory and further ease their own relegation worries after taking a 25th minute lead through Willie Watters . |
| 9 | Midfielder David Batty is battling to be fit for tomorrow 's trip to Aston Villa after missing the second half of Saturday 's win with a damaged calf . |
| 10 | COLCHESTER sailor Richard Merriweather has told of the trials of the deep after completing the third leg of a round-the-world yacht race . |
| 11 | Both are more refreshing than a toner — and more effective methods of removing the last traces of make-up and oil . |
| 12 | Two methods of resolving the first problem are : |
| 13 | The vertical distance between the marginal social cost MSC and the marginal social benefit as given by DD shows the marginal social loss of producing the last output unit . |
| 14 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 15 | Less costly , but not entirely satisfactory , is the practice of making every fourth tankful leaded petrol , which protects the valve seats but rather defeats the object . |
| 16 | McCulloch , the Scots captain , led from the front with a 21-16 win over Tony Allcock , Alex Marshall trounced Pip Branfield 21-9 and Provan despite dropping a last end five beat John Bell 20-18 . |
| 17 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 18 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 19 | Davies left Lansdowne Road looking pensive , but alert to Australia 's dislike of Garryowens , their growing weariness after two years of international stress , and the disruption of losing a fourth player through injury . |
| 20 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
| 21 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 22 | Double stranded cDNA is obtained by a number of methods including using a second oligonucleotide or degenerate mixture specific for a target mRNA , or else total double stranded cDNA is produced by ‘ tailing ’ the first strand and using the complementary homo(oligonucleotide) as the second primer . |
| 23 | Weaver had practised his right-hand script before scrawling the first note to Jack Stone . |
| 24 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 25 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 26 | Slavery is the key to unlocking the third chamber of Kane 's theorem about why blacks excel in sport : ‘ Of all the physical and psychological theories about the American black 's excellence in sport , none has proved more controversial than one of the least discussed : that slavery weeded out the weak ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.80 ) . |
| 27 | His disappointment at having a second wife barren was , to him , the only flaw in their marriage , and her deception would never be forgiven . |
| 28 | This indicates that chewing and swallowing at least start to bring our bodily eating controls into action by sending the first satiety signals to the brain — and that the more chewing and swallowing we do the more effective this is likely to be . |
| 29 | He also wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to compile three total clearances in a match . |
| 30 | Amid much grand talk about the dawn of a new era , an assorted bunch of international players , only some of whom are world-class , set out tomorrow to add to New Zealand 's miseries by ruining a 100th birthday party , writes John Mason . |