Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month Norma Steinberg will be showing one of the wild animals which has become an endangered species on a beautifully drawn chart and portrayed on a suitable sweater style . |
| 2 | The history of the British car industry ( refer to Chapter 4 ) , which has seen a whole series of mergers , is one example which shows that the potential benefits of mergers are not automatically secured . |
| 3 | I am anxious that my grandsons , Prince William and Prince Harry , should grow up in as happy and stable an environment as possible because they represent not just my family 's future , but a continuation of a tradition which has bound the British people together for centuries . |
| 4 | During my time at the Centre , the strict vegan , detoxifying diet was recommended for three months as a minimum ; only after that should one go to the ‘ stay well diet ’ which does allow a little fish and eggs . |
| 5 | " What I look like , " Slater said , coming forward and taking Graham by the elbow to continue walking , " is somebody who has discovered an old pair of RAF pilot 's boots at a market stall in Camden . " |
| 6 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 7 | Of course no bright young thing who wants to make a quick buck would consider going into the ministry . |
| 8 | Men might say , ‘ She 's got a nice pair . ’ |
| 9 | She 's got a nice pair of legs ai n't she ? |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't care if she 's got a fucking cannon in there , ’ Farrell snapped , pulling back the slide on the UZI . |
| 11 | She 's got an eighty meg hard drive . |
| 12 | Me friend over in Norway , she said she 's she got over there and sat down and she thought , yes , she 's got the Complete Works of Shakespeare , I 'll have a whale of a time trying to read it , she picks up the book , it 's all in Norwegian . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid Mummy 's under sed — She 's had a big Aspirin to help her relax . |
| 14 | Now 3 × £9 is £27 , if you add the £2 that the porter kept you have a total of £29 — so who 's got the missing £1 ? |
| 15 | One involves generating a short-lived species in the gas phase , by photolysis , thermolysis , chemical reaction , discharge , etc . |
| 16 | ‘ No one wants to buy a dying duck , do they ? |
| 17 | With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use . |
| 18 | It was more like a personal appearance by a pop star … just a glimpse of Desert Orchid was enough to draw the crowds and set the cameras clicking.But after all , this was the horse with his own fanclub.And he has created a few records.Between 1983 and 1991 Dezi won 34 steeplechases , picking up half a million pounds in prize money into the bargain.Now he 's retired … and enjoying the fame : |
| 19 | He has built an estimated £6.7 billion worth of extra taxes into the economy for 1994-95 rising to more than £10 billion in 1995-96 . |
| 20 | Bill Clinton was born in the town of Hope and that is what he has given the American people . |
| 21 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 22 | Of course he needs to know the obvious data like her starsign , blood-type , favourite foods and what her father does for a living . |
| 23 | And it has suffered an extraordinary series of mishaps over the past decade . |
| 24 | It has launched a thousand folk tales ; and now is proving a superb model for studying the hormones that control plant growth |
| 25 | Over the years it has produced a wide-ranging series of reports on abuses of power by the national brewers , many of which have led to action by central government . |
| 26 | It has brought the Korean people to a new hope . |
| 27 | HDS says it has delivered the first $5m . |
| 28 | OSF also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd XPG4-compliant and says it plans to introduce a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 29 | The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years . |