Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research attempts to uncover reasons for this and puts forward a series of policy recommendations aimed at producing a more random distribution of women in employment . |
| 2 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 3 | The following projects are a few examples of those that exist around the country . |
| 4 | My wife Carolyn was like that and does all the language teaching in the sandschool then every so often announces a newly learned skill . |
| 5 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 6 | A brief discussion of some programs written to understand language , including some that ferret out the ‘ gist ’ of a short passage and are able to answer questions about it , gives a sense both of the difficulties and of the promise of these types of approach . |
| 7 | In the case of processes , the division between those that make up the longue durée and those that belong to the sphere of conjonctures is bound to be rough ; there is no absolute division between a gradual increase in population lasting for a century and a cycle of growth and decline lasting a mere seventy-five years , a fact reflected in the organisation of La Méditerranée . |
| 8 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 9 | One of the attendants offered him a cup : he did not drink from this but threw out the contents and ran off with it . |
| 10 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds , which are slippery and stringy . |
| 11 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds . |
| 12 | Cut a Galia melon in half and scoop out the flesh with a melon baller , or cut into cubes . |
| 13 | Even the types of particles that were eventually emitted by the black hole would in general be different from those that made up the astronaut : the only feature of the astronaut that would survive would be his mass or energy . |
| 14 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 15 | Heavy dark green velvet curtains were partly drawn across these and allowed only a single column of light to enter the room . |
| 16 | In fact , at most matches , they do very little at all except set up a few chants when things are a bit quiet . |
| 17 | While fibre-rich foods are chewed slowly , calorific drinks require no chewing at all and go down the throat in a split second . |
| 18 | Uncle Basil was amused by this and rigged up a device like a stone age " Comeback tennis " only with an old composition cricket ball . |