Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than mix grass and flower seed before sowing , I raise seedlings of the flowering plants in trays . |
| 2 | ‘ I bring greetings from a distant star , ’ said Chico Nixon . |
| 3 | For clothes , I suggest catalogues for a good selection . |
| 4 | I am 82 , and would like to see this argument settled before I pitch stumps on the Green Field . |
| 5 | I meet representatives of the civil service unions from time to time to discuss a range of issues . |
| 6 | I meet representatives of the National Farmers Union regularly to discuss a range of agricultural issues . |
| 7 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 8 | When I think of my previous existence — of all I thought I could reasonably expect of the rest of my life , an allowed place at the extreme corner of someone 's drawing-room carpet , a Servant 's garret or no better , I give thanks for every little thing , which is unspeakably dear to me . |
| 9 | I hear mutterings from the Conservative Back Benches to the effect that the Minister does return with good deals , but if one asked the British farmer , that is not the message that one would hear . |
| 10 | I hear steps up the wooden ladder . |
| 11 | mm , well , I visit ladies in the nineties and they 're called Emma and Alice and Amy and all these names that are being used for children now , but I do n't think you 'll ever get Fred , Sidney |
| 12 | ‘ If the guy I marry turns into a fat slob , ’ avers Miss Minogue , ‘ I 'd warn him about his cholesterol level , tell him to cut down on booze and fatty foods , and take exercise . |
| 13 | In chapters 4 and 5 I expose defects in the crudest form of foundationalism , and in chapters 6 and 7 I argue that we have a more general reason to avoid any sort of foundationalism , a reason derived from considerations in the theory of meaning . |
| 14 | I think members of the Royal Family will be amused despite the reality of the situation . |
| 15 | The flat I share looks in the opposite direction to theirs , across the access road and the lawns to the old estate wall and the tall old trees rising on the ridge beyond . |
| 16 | I share digs with an old school friend of mine , Daphne Harcourt-Browne . |
| 17 | I enclose photocopies of the relevant pages of the proposal , copies of the whole document will be supplied on request . |
| 18 | I enclose samples of the last two cards we have produced . |
| 19 | I enclose samples of the last two cards we have produced . |
| 20 | I enclose details of a new forum being set up by the National Rivers Authority to try to reconcile and manage the competing range of interests that value the river Wye as a resource . |
| 21 | I mean , I write things in a certain way , so I expect them to be played in a certain way . |
| 22 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 23 | Nelson wrote ‘ I have applications from the different line of battle ships for surveys on most of their sails and running rigging which can not be complied with as there is neither cordage nor sails to replace the unserviceable stores and therefore the evil must be combated in the best manner possible . ’ |
| 24 | We will continue our Estate Action and Housing Action Trust programmes which concentrate resources on the worst council estates . |
| 25 | In order to obtain more information about those RNA polymerase subunits which make contacts in the -40 region , we also carried out protein-DNA crosslinking experiments with both enzymes , using a UV laser ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 26 | Unlike other surveys of economic forecasts , which usually poll local forecasters in each country , The Economist polls mainly large international banks which make forecasts on a consistent basis for all the big economies . |
| 27 | There are also individual bureaux which develop extensions to the minimum national demands of enquiry classification . |
| 28 | The third consists of those mechanisms which channel pupils into a sexual division of labour : that boys are persuaded to take science and technology subjects and girls to take the arts . |
| 29 | This committee considered the factors influencing the age at which pupils left ‘ secondary schools which provide courses beyond the minimum school leaving age ’ — in practice , grammar schools . |
| 30 | However , those for money and butterfly spreads which involve positions with a uniform time of expiry can be drawn . |