Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I announced in the House on 26 November my plans for recurrent and capital expenditure on grant-aided colleges . |
| 2 | My heart with more than lust . |
| 3 | IN all my years in political and business life I have never seen anything like the pressure put on the rebels in Westminster on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | I squeezed the bridge of my nose with forefinger and thumb . |
| 5 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |
| 6 | Now I do have input into what I think will sell in Europe and in Asia and my background in private and investment banking has contributed to our expansion in these directions ; I come into contact with different people from those who might normally come into Colnaghi 's , giving rise to possible purchasing opportunities . |
| 7 | As Europe moves towards its goal of a common internal market , and as its institutions for political and security co-operation evolve , the link between the United States and the European Community will become even more important . |
| 8 | We have no statistics to tell us how many children are involved , how long they spend in any one of these stages of transition , nor do we know what effect these experiences have on them or on their relationships with natural or step-parents . |
| 9 | Two- and three-year-olds , who did not yet know less , were not as consistent , and their responses to less and tiv — and possibly to more as well — suggested that , in the absence of lexical knowledge , they were probably relying on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount ( Trehub and Abramovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | What is immediately notable , however , is that Mary 's own subjects , the Scots — that is , those in Scotland left to deal with the crisis created by her deposition in 1567 and flight to England in 1568 , rather than Catholic exiles like Blackwood and the bishop of Ross , on whom there were no restraints — had the good sense to keep as quiet as possible . |
| 11 | But this made the Department and ministers once again vulnerable to charges of abdicating their responsibilities for financial and policy goals . |
| 12 | The forelock tugging Casey expected from others in between the randy nights with Annie runs through this book — tainting its pages with cant and hypocrisy . |
| 13 | Nearly all college teachers also have a contractual obligation to research and to publish ; to carry their share of departmental and/or college administration ; to serve on college committees and other policy-making or advisory bodies ; to set and to mark college examinations ; to be available to help students whenever possible ; and so on . |
| 14 | Men of the king 's demesnes , as in Rodley in the Forest of Dean , were required to show by what warrant they exercised their rights of common and estovers of dead and dry wood in the forest , and if they could produce none they were required to pay for them . |
| 15 | Second , it can enhance their feelings of self-worth and esteem . |
| 16 | As Hornung et al. ( 1987 ) point out , most concern has been voiced about increasing acidity and aluminium concentrations , which mainly occur where afforestation has been undertaken on areas underlain by acidic bedrock , because of their impact on invertebrate and fish populations . |
| 17 | Already it seems clear that superantigens are yet another example of microbial pathogens evolving mechanisms to use and subvert the immune response ; we shall hear more of their role in infective and autoimmune disease . |
| 18 | RENTOKIL was quick off the mark yesterday when it decided to increase its dividend by more than earnings to compensate for the Chancellor 's decision to cut the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 19 | Hall has a four-shot buffer after her round of 75 while Edmond , who could not play for the Essex ladies in county week due to a wrist injury , is also well-placed after a 77 . |
| 20 | With the renewal of their charter in 1996 and plans for mass redundancies in the interests of efficiency already sketched out , the future shape of the Corporation was in the balance , alongside the polls . |
| 21 | ‘ Given the acrimony between the parents who both vie for the children 's affection and blacken each other 's characters and motives in the process , I am of the view that the children have become pawns in their game of hurt and ascendency . |
| 22 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1978 the annualised rate of increase of the Retail Prices Index was only 6.8 per cent and real incomes were rising again following the sharp falls of 1976 and 77 ; unemployment , while still very high by post-war standards , was beginning to fall from its peak in 1977 and job vacancies were on the increase ; the balance of payments current account showed a substantial surplus . |
| 23 | The Kunsthalle , a space ( usually municipally funded ) in which artists can exhibit their works outside academic and museum constraints , is largely unknown in the United States , even though every small city in the country seems to have built a ‘ contemporary art space ’ over the last ten years . |
| 24 | She shivered in her armchair through cold and impatience , thinking that Swod relished a captive audience but that she hated forming it . |
| 25 | Seeing this stranger among the gleaners Boaz asks his foreman about Ruth , and she is as we 've mentioned , she , he talks about her diligence , about her respectful ways , about her , her consideration for other and Boaz offers to her , three things , he offers to her guidance he says , do n't go anywhere else , you stay here . |
| 26 | Prices have fallen by up to 40 per cent since their peak in 1988/89 and interest rates are down from 15 to just over nine per cent . |
| 27 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 28 | Active involvement in the League of Nations Union followed World War I. She became a member of its executive in 1928 and vice-chairman in 1939 . |
| 29 | The course has a strong practical bias , and seeks to emphasise the value of transferable skills and the need to see ‘ theatre ’ as relevant and topical in its application to social and community contexts . |
| 30 | There should be a place on the agenda of partnerships for matters like the direction of business development and its consequences for commercial and manufacturing processes and their work force requirements . |