Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The times cry out for a dramatic change in our relationship to our neighbour , the Earth and , at root to God . |
| 2 | All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time . |
| 3 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 4 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 6 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 7 | Although the atomic beam pulses spread out during a particular measurement , owing to velocity dispersion , calculations show that the mean density quoted here is the important measure . |
| 8 | Only in the nineteenth century did widespread protests against this kind of thinking break out within the main stream of Reformed theology itself . |
| 9 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 10 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 11 | The lines of the images stand out from the high quality Montval paper and are accompanied by a braille text . |
| 12 | Acceptable collocational patterns and grammatical structures can only enhance the readability of individual sentences , but they do not in themselves ensure that sentences and paragraphs add up to a readable or coherent text . |
| 13 | The double sweep 1 : both fighters square off in the right stance . |
| 14 | The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world . |
| 15 | There was a damp start for fund-raisers yesterday , when walkers set out on the annual march from Cultra to Bangor to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast 's Somerton Road . |
| 16 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 17 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 18 | Hormones pass back to the pituitary gland , regulating its sexual function . |
| 19 | It was n't long before she heard Douglas 's car draw up on the short gravel drive . |
| 20 | Bush Vark 's First Day Out by Charles Fuge ( MacMillan , £6.95 ) Winner of The Mother Goose Award and the MacMillan Prize 1988 Three pairs of creaturely eyes stare out from the deep black inside covers of Bush Vark 's First Day Out , whetting young appetites for nocturnal mystery and the pleasurable horrors encountered by Charles Fuge 's cheery little vark , with his slippery passivity and plain good fortune . |
| 21 | For consistency , we use a standard predictive scheme based upon thirty-five predictors representing the influences set out in the general model of media influence described in Chapter 1 . |
| 22 | CLEVELAND athletes of the future get off to a flying start today with a new course at Cleveland stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | The manager who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 24 | The manager , who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects , saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 25 | In South Africa , only mad dogs and security guards go out in the last white summer |
| 26 | And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ? |
| 27 | Trend prediction is now big business to help commerce and industry keep up with the latest demands created by peer group pressure . |
| 28 | Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor , gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth . |
| 29 | The winners go on to the national finals in York , the winners of that may have a chance of selection for the Paralympics in Barcelona . |
| 30 | The quoted words point back to the privileged second existence which poetry had once promised Jaromil , and they point ahead : the old meaning has been reversed , with the claim that real life resides in a revolutionary solidarity . |