Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , as with any investment in stocks and shares , the value of units and the income from them can go down as well as up , and an investor may not get back the amount originally invested . |
| 2 | A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation . |
| 3 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 4 | In Chapter 2 we embarked on the task of building a house for the writer-self , a beloved abode where the writer in you can live . |
| 5 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 6 | Those are important and worthwhile projects , and we must ask the Government where the money for them will come from , especially if £1.4 billion is gobbled up by the proposals for King 's Cross . |
| 7 | Yeah , but if you took the watch off it should stop . |
| 8 | Hopper heads are generally considered unsanitary as they are not self-cleaning ( and can get coated with dried soap ) and the smell from them could enter the bathroom through an open window . |
| 9 | Milken refused to play the game of domino justice , so the case against him will stand or fall on its own merits . |
| 10 | The locomotive was ‘ Perseverance ’ , and the damage to her may have included boiler damage , as old tubes were sold and new ones bought as a consequence of the accident . |
| 11 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 12 | At all events the rent from them must have been very considerable . |
| 13 | This introduction to a scene and the gradual unfolding of the action within it may seem to be a rather academic restriction on the freedom of the cameraman , but it is a most important movie-making technique because it gives the viewer the feeling of involvement as a participant in the exploration of the location . |
| 14 | Because of the , the tinkering around it must do a bit of |
| 15 | She began inching towards him , hugging the face of the cliff , praying that the rock beneath her would hold . |
| 16 | They take for granted , that if Christianity were true , the light of it must have been more general , and the evidence of it more satisfactory … if any of these persons are , upon the whole , in doubt concerning the truth of Christianity ; their behaviour seems owing to their taking for granted , through strange inattention , that such doubting is , in a manner , the same thing as being certain against it . |
| 17 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 18 | A child will learn far more about a dandelion if he has to draw it because to draw it he must observe it very carefully and the drawing of it will implant the shape and colour and texture firmly in his mind , even though his drawing may not be very good or life-like . |
| 19 | So where , if I 'm putting twelve thousand in for sort of a , a holding fund for , for individuals I might put three thousand into a local society so they can pop down to the Nottingham Building Society for any bits and pieces , and th the , the bulk of it can go into a postal account to , with a better rate . |
| 20 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 21 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 22 | You know I gave her the ultimatum like you can come with us but damn well I would n't have let her come . |
| 23 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
| 24 | When Dennis Bailey puts Rangers one up , the Bloke Behind Me can take it no more . |
| 25 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 26 | Asquith thought that the erosion of his would lead to the growth of an irresponsible opposition , undermining the near unanimity of support for the war effort . |
| 27 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 28 | Piling up information for the sake of it can reveal a lack of understanding . |
| 29 | Certainly , this broader remit seems eminently sensible , partly because the existence of strict demarcation lines between advanced and non-advanced further education is harmful to both and partly because the distinction between them will become more blurred as and when the provision of recurrent and continuing education is expanded . |
| 30 | The bond between them might help to heal old family conflicts . |