Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 C. Cyclamen coum Hardy cyclamen whose rounded leaves — which may be plain green , marbled grey , or silver — appear in autumn and last until late spring .
2 André Gide self-published his first novel with disastrous results ( he took most of the copies , unsold , to the shredders ) — and Anaïs Nin typeset , printed and sold Winter of Artifice herself .
3 Mr Deputy Speaker my honourable friend is right that the allocation of budgets is a matter for the local authority and that is a matter for public debate er in the council chamber .
4 THE cost-cutting is to continue at East Midlands Electricity which last month axed 300 jobs .
5 LEICESTER manager Brian Little , tipped to take over at Roker Park should struggling Sunderland sack Malcolm Crosby , saw his teenage striker Julian Joachim hand his beleaguered rival another huge setback , writes David Alexander .
6 THE Russian appetite for Western cigarettes helped tobacco giant Rothmans keep its six-month profits steady at £266m .
7 County Pot is located among a ruck of boulders 80 yards upstream from the top of the Cow Dub waterfall its constricted entrance being identified by a manhole cover among many other holes hereabouts on the north bank .
8 George E. Lodge whose excellent paintings have illustrated so many bird books , visited Gilbert Blaine at Cairnmore during September and October of the mid-193Os on three occasions .
9 Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use .
10 A Stockton author who last week defended his book about Guisborough has now been criticised for his work on Middlesbrough .
11 I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ .
12 ‘ I saw a man dissipating so much affection for his country and his associates ’ , said Hakim , struggling to explain to a New York lawyer his bad case of ‘ love at first sight ’ , ‘ that the radiation of that love — it really immediately penetrated through my system . ’
13 With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it .
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