Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 2 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 3 | This episode takes him across Western Turkey and the Mediterranean , on to Greece , and Rhodes ( where he meets astrologer Patric Walker ) before hitting Africa in the shape of Egypt and Luxor . |
| 4 | A cable car takes you from nearby Ehrwald to the Zugspitzkamm station at 9,203 feet which has been partly blasted out of the rock . |
| 5 | A managerial perspective on organizations presents them as social entities with a collective purpose . |
| 6 | However , once the coil tap has been activated , the switch moves you between tapped bridge and both bridge and neck together . |
| 7 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 8 | Whereas America has visitors with little bodies and big heads , Russia has them with big bodies and little heads . |
| 9 | The borough council blames them for serious defects found in the building . |
| 10 | This attitude protects you from negative suggestions and strengthens your defence mechanism in a socially acceptable way . |
| 11 | With a total population estimated at 15–30 million , crabeaters are almost certainly the world 's most numerous seals ( Laws , 1984 ) ; their wide dispersal on pack ice protects them from human depredations . |
| 12 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 13 | They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’ |
| 14 | In summer these are carried inland in sea spray ; in winter impregnated snow from the sea ice deposits them on coastal rocks and snowdrifts . |
| 15 | Although a breach of contract claim is based upon common law rights , remember that the Consolidation Act entitles you to minimum pay during your statutory notice period . |
| 16 | Iago 's refusal to answer that question puts him outside human society for ever . |
| 17 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 18 | A medallion in Hughes Hall portrays her with short hair , an aquiline nose , and a determined chin . |
| 19 | The research will focus on three key agencies whose work brings them into direct contact both with offenders and the victims of crime : the police service , probation service and social services departments . |
| 20 | The task Gomez envisages for the black lesbian returns us to radical humanism , and both Fanon and Gide as important points of reference . |
| 21 | If , on the other hand , you take in too few calories ( that is , your diet supplies you with insufficient fuel to meet your energy requirements ) you will draw on stored fuel . |
| 22 | For example when Pip meets Miss Haversham for the 1st time , Dickens describes her in immense detail . |
| 23 | The tension in the films draws them towards minimum surface area . |
| 24 | But Althusser puts it to dramatic use . |
| 25 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 26 | That they were also all subject to periods of psychotic breakdown makes them of additional interest and in the next chapter we shall examine precisely what that means and how it might help us to understand their particular form of creativity . |
| 27 | Much of this music has no other recording — and none of it on the harp , and King plays it with rare strength , sensitivity and the conviction of one who is also inventing it as the same time — and is delighted by his own trouvailles . |
| 28 | A friend fills hers with miniature whisky bottles for the men and lace handkerchiefs for the women . |
| 29 | The Clio reaches us in perfect condition , excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims . |
| 30 | At the front of the line a man in short hair and a blue suit directs them to different booths as they become available . |