Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 2 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 3 | And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees . |
| 4 | There is nothing about a general right to follow the property over which the trust exists ; the question is purely quantitative . |
| 5 | On the contrary , the light rail systems found in experimental services throughout much of this century , but maturing only recently with the use of modern technology , could have a very bright future if Governments come to regard them as a necessary investment to meet an increasing transport need . |
| 6 | Many of them so often quite rightly describe what has happened to them as a deep wound resulting from the blow they have received . |
| 7 | The geological availability of these is used by geographers and historians as a strong argument for why settlements are sited near them when engaged in mining them , or when a particular industry which uses them as a raw material has to be nearby . |
| 8 | He kissed her bunched fingers again , then quickly dropped them as an elegant woman paused by their table . |
| 9 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 10 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 11 | I found myself constantly making a connection between what new families were saying to me about what they found most helpful from a social worker and what I as a social worker find most helpful from a team leader . |
| 12 | This is the point at which I as a mathematical physicist begin to splutter and go red in the face . |
| 13 | And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it . |
| 14 | Upon arrival at Aberdeen Airport your COMPLIMENTARY CAR will be awaiting you … and will be yours for the entire weekend to use as you please . |
| 15 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 16 | Recognizing his potential ability — not as a dancer , but someone with a great deal to offer to theatre — I obtained permission from the Senate and the Dean of the Faculty of Music ( of which the ballet school was a part ) for John to be a registered student on the three-year Ballet Certificate course . |
| 17 | Lynda always accepted the importance of having someone with a strong concept controlling the design outflow and never found Laura 's unspoken guidelines stultifying . |
| 18 | If that is true , why does someone with a lavish lifestyle have a right to have that maintained while families who have defaulted on £20,000 mortgages have their homes repossessed ? |
| 19 | I have decided to step down to allow someone with a fresh approach to take charge in the hope that Irish rugby may achieve the success it needs . ’ |
| 20 | It angered her that anyone 's work should be treated cavalierly because someone with a little authority regarded a newsroom as a draughts board . |
| 21 | A thorough examination of all the available hearth tax returns on a county basis will enable him to identify which parishes had someone with the appropriate surname living there during the reign of Charles II . |
| 22 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 23 | Displaying remarkable maturity for a 22-year-old he has emerged in the last 18 months as the game 's outstanding personality , a player blessed with the full range of skills , someone with an unflappable temperament to match . |
| 24 | Maybe someone with an old score to settle ? ’ |
| 25 | In a desperate attempt at humour someone in a neighbouring bed muttered half out loud : ‘ The suspense is killing me . ’ |
| 26 | Someone in a white coat came up to them . |
| 27 | Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered someone in the stylish thriller Shattered . |
| 28 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 29 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 30 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |