Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My feet tickle with the marching rhythm . |
| 2 | Through the approaches I have described I have aimed to give my pupils access to a broad and balanced mathematical curriculum . |
| 3 | He was my foursomes partner for a few years in international golf and there is no better way to assess another 's playing ability . |
| 4 | The strategy could not make , nor sustain if it could , the ceteris paribus conditions such as the idea of a perfect vacuum in which objects fall at a constant rate of acceleration whatever their size and shape . |
| 5 | If a child does not know any other black people , he or she does not value them ; all his or her values descend from the adoptive parents . |
| 6 | Last year , the Booker foods group sold its Healthcrafts range to a Danish company called Ferrosan . |
| 7 | As the nights grew darker and colder , dinner parties grew scarcer and most nights Alexandra spent by her own fire , doing her meticulous accounts , writing faithfully to her father or answering George Langley 's breezy and frequent letters from Cambridge , Rose and Grace Langley were in London until Christmas , their hunters idle in the stable and Alexandra 's life was both peaceful and satisfying in their absence . |
| 8 | The people who are losing their homes belong to a settled community with centuries-old traditions . |
| 9 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 10 | Normally their chutes stack into a neat line . |
| 11 | Our principle concern in this section of the chapter will be factors which affect the kind of syntactic form which speakers use on a particular occasion . |
| 12 | Its authors point to the relative rarity of hysteria nowadays when compared with its frequent occurrence before the First World War : |
| 13 | Then they heard — their ears alert for the slightest changes in the grind of the traffic — a car slowing just behind them . |
| 14 | They hate the way all their songs end with a huge clang of guitars , the way they holler things like ‘ Viva Boys Wonder ! ’ s if they 're going to be around forever . |
| 15 | They hate the way all their songs end with a huge clang of guitars , the way they holler things like ‘ Viva Boys Wonder ! ’ s if they 're going to be around forever . |
| 16 | Her lips move in an anguished chewing motion , so that her mouth widens and closes , a fevered sea-urchin . |
| 17 | Charlotte clamped her eyes shut for an instant to stave off frustration . |
| 18 | More than a dozen of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada ; other pictures are in galleries all across Canada , and in the homes of art lovers in Europe and America . |
| 19 | He saw one of her heels sink into the soft grass , she almost fell . |
| 20 | They know she can be relied on to make the big day for her clients sparkle with the perfect glittering accessory . |
| 21 | Some of the arachidonic acid derived eicosanoids ( prostaglandin E 2 , leukotriene B 4 , and thromboxane A 2 ) have been incriminated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease , because their concentrations increase in the inflammed intestinal mucosa in the acute phase of the disease . |
| 22 | For any infinite sequence of symbols 1,2,3 and 4 allowed by Fig. 6.6b we can find a vertical line of points ( arrived at by taking away " two-thirds ' of an interval an infinite number of times ) from which trajectories pass through the four shaded areas in the prescribed sequence . |
| 23 | However , the content required for such targets is inadequate for a true presentation of the Catholic faith tradition — it does not embody that content which adherents know as the essential elements of their faith . |
| 24 | Where there are definite intuitions about which elements belong at a given level , we may speak of substantive levels . |
| 25 | ( e ) Removal from accommodation The provision of accommodation is a service which parents accept on a voluntary basis . |
| 26 | Matthew and Luke in their Gospels speak of the Holy Spirit for Christians only in the Mission Charge which anticipates their future role as ambassadors of Christ . |
| 27 | Their footsteps echo between the ancient stone buildings . |
| 28 | Its movements relate to the four points of the compass , and a great number of movements have to be remembered . |
| 29 | The foundation for the Kaldor view has been discussed in Lecture 3 , where we brought out its relationship with the company sector and the extent to which individuals see through the corporate veil . |
| 30 | Despite its beautiful Cornish setting Lady Tressilian 's house party is doomed to failure for her guests consist of an extraordinary triangle — her nephew , Nevile Strange , his second wife , the beautiful Kay , and his first wife Audrey . |