Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have informed me that the seraglio contains beautiful apartments , more or less spacious and splendid according to the rank and income of the females . |
| 2 | Enough there for a painting — but for the most part there is an awful lot of nothing and no canvas seems big enough to contain it . |
| 3 | Me and the kid stay imprisoned . |
| 4 | People on legal aid will only be able to get the most inexperienced lawyers to work for them if a plan to set fixed hourly rates goes ahead , the Law Society warns . |
| 5 | touch them and the telly goes wrong |
| 6 | And golf officials will tell you that the game provides clean and wholesome fun , and a stimulating outlet in an otherwise rotten world . |
| 7 | ‘ Did n't you say I 'd only got to come an' see yer if the geezer got awkward ? ’ |
| 8 | Look at it like this and it will make you and the music feel good ! |
| 9 | Then even if you and the dog lose visual contact , the dog should hear the sound and return to you . |
| 10 | I 'm not suggesting players should go around collecting yellow cards , but you must have players who are going to get stuck in for you when the going gets tough . |
| 11 | Such excursions spelled glamour and excitement for Fergie , something that the duke seemed incapable of providing at the time . |
| 12 | Whether they can be mapped seismically within or below thrust sheets is more of a problem , but it is one that the industry seems confident of defeating in other parts of the world . |
| 13 | The hidden agenda — and there always seems to be one when the Left discusses lesbian and gay rights — was Marxism Today 's distrust of the ‘ Trots ’ who controlled these councils . |
| 14 | But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse . |
| 15 | Health teaching does not necessarily imply an elaborate preplanned programme of instruction ; it does involve being alert to cues from the clients and assessing the appropriate time to discuss issues which they and the nurse consider important to the client 's circumstances . |
| 16 | He sensed a wave of excitement among the people behind him as the audience kept silent , hanging on every word . |
| 17 | Under the project , the banks lend money in the normal way but the Department of Industry agrees to refund 80 per cent of it if the firm goes bust . |
| 18 | Use it to gently wedge the bag horizontally inside the container , to cushion it if the ride gets bumpy . |
| 19 | Naturally enough , the new , faster , mode of transport acted to reduce trade rather than to increase it and the mill suffered declining fortunes until it ceased to operate as a flour mill shortly after World War II . |
| 20 | They chose Guy Fawkes ' night to do it and the gesture went unnoticed — he found a lesson even in this . |
| 21 | But others saw it and the crowd shuffled free a space to let them through . |
| 22 | And a few years after that his sticky career came to an end when he and a friend called Gentle ( who was anything but ) murdered a woman called Josephine Chipperfield at her home in Easterhouse and wounded several of her family . |
| 23 | Moreover , it is difficult for anyone but the manager to have available all the information he or she has taken into account at the point of decision , and hence it is difficult to monitor the manager . |
| 24 | I think our headie would disagree with you on testing — she feels we all abandoned it when the going got tough . |
| 25 | This was done primarily by reducing the visibility of the pad and the physical activity of notetaking , occasionally forgoing it when the situation seemed appropriate , as in the canteen or recreation and television rooms , and by emphasizing that the notebooks were not secret . |
| 26 | " in a school such as ours where the teaching has distinct literary and mathematical pretensions and in which school hours are shorter than is the case in some parts of the country there is not , under present conditions , sufficient time for the proper development of both subjects : and experts are nearly unanimous in the opinion that Physics affords a better intellectual training than Chemistry , and the expense and risk in maintaining a Physical Laboratory is also distinctly less . " |
| 27 | What if the child gets bored with the reward ? |
| 28 | Where judgment is given for a sum which exceeds £200 and represents or includes damages in respect of personal injuries , or in respect of a person 's death , the court must include in that sum interest on those damages or on such part of them as the court considers appropriate , unless the court is satisfied that there are special reasons why no interest should be given ( ibid , s 69 ) . |
| 29 | Anya springs up at them as the door swings wide . |
| 30 | The ideological demand that communists should seek to improve the accommodation of the people was subordinate to the aspiration to house them in such a way as to make it easier to supervise them and mould them as the Party saw fit . |