Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indulge in some designer name-dropping with the Emporio Armani tuxedo which has the initials EA carved in the back , or economise with Fenwicks ' best-seller — a bustier-topped all-in-one with matching jacket . |
| 2 | Interestingly , almost a third of those exhibiting in the contemporary section , have either studied or taught at Goldsmiths ' College . |
| 3 | There must be many who are touched to the heart by that phrase ‘ earthly father ’ and yet who do n't believe a word of the novel 's religion ; just as , and more obviously , Raskolnikov 's kissing the dirt in the middle of the Haymarket does n't stand or fall by Dostoevsky 's Soil Philosophy . |
| 4 | Sometimes they are unreasonable , perhaps being arbitrary or made for convenience 's sake ; if so , to what extent are conclusions invalidated , and can one proceed in an alternative fashion based on only weak knowledge ? |
| 5 | A growing number of staffs within and across schools and the specialist services are now engaged in developing such joint approaches , meeting as teams in school-based discussions and workshops , with the explicit aims of pooling their expertise , sharing and increasing their understanding of the factors that may lead or contribute to children 's learning difficulties , and finding their own most appropriate solutions to them . |
| 6 | Data on the SparcCenter 2000 can be backed up or migrated through StorageTek 's NearNet system , running Epoch software , to StorageTek 's 4400 Automated Cartridge System . |
| 7 | Quiet country parsons , who had applied for twenty shares in the hope of being allotted one , now had to buy all twenty , at fifty pounds apiece , or go to debtor 's jail — all for a railway that the judge , barrister , company , and jailer knew would never exist . |
| 8 | Meals were enlivened by readings or poetry recited or chanted at Charles ' command . |
| 9 | We could have found somewhere cheaper , or taken up Richard 's mother 's offer that she should buy a house in the suburbs and share it with us , but Richard had theories about the importance of a good , central address , as well as about the waste of nervous energy involved in travelling . |
| 10 | Love is so highly charged you want to be left in peace or left with Andrew 's piece . |
| 11 | Simply it means to have our sins ‘ covered ’ or removed from God 's sight and memory . |
| 12 | Bowyer was drunk , Benjamin lost in his own thoughts or seduced by Rachel 's flattery , Mandeville and Southgate were revelling in the manor 's hospitality whilst Santerre , whose conduct was suspicious to say the least , played the role of smiling host . |
| 13 | Melanie felt a drop or two of moisture on her face — rain , maybe , or the coagulated damp of the wet night air , or spray from Finn 's regard . |
| 14 | No shaman was present to preside or to ask for God 's blessing upon Artai 's reign , Alexei saw , for it was a fact that there was no such thing as organised religion on this world , and even casual superstition was not permitted to interfere for long in the affairs of men . |
| 15 | LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO GUESTS ' PROPERTY |
| 16 | A diary entry of the period reads , ‘ Daddy wo n't let me go out to play or listen to Children 's Hour or read stories . |
| 17 | The most widely remembered is the pithy and witty exchange that plays on Ben 's alienation from the materialistic world of his parents and their friends . |
| 18 | In the years that followed , the factional conflicts that centred on Louis 's court were coolly observed by Hincmar , the future archbishop , then a young monk at St-Denis , close therefore to Abbot Hilduin , Louis 's archchaplain . |
| 19 | And they fear that ten months on , the circumstances that led to Anna 's death still exist . |
| 20 | Indeed , the belief has now passed into the folklore that it was Gandhi 's success in appealing to the British conscience , also known as British decency , that led to India 's achievement of independence in 1947 . |
| 21 | I began by asking Sir Peter to recall the incidents that led to Britten 's choosing George Crabbe 's The Borough , and specifically the story of the fisherman , Peter Grimes , as the subject of his first opera . |
| 22 | Manuel also took the free kick that led to Gayle 's goal , while Blissett 's 15th goal of the season was a 67th-minute header . |
| 23 | Strach was giving the ball away , it was this that led to Alex 's equaliser . |
| 24 | The evidence that there had been an intruder was slight but all the same his senses tingled as he walked quietly through the hall , past the staircase and down the passage that led to Jacob 's bed-sitter . |
| 25 | Paul Priestley and his wife Jennifer at their wedding five years ago , before the illness that led to Paul 's transplant operation |
| 26 | The incident that led to Joanna 's death happened outside a children 's home in Cheltenham . |
| 27 | ‘ The housing market remains depressed and confidence has taken a severe blow from the turmoil in the foreign exchange markets that led to sterling 's suspension from the ERM . ’ |
| 28 | Bart-Williams ' appearance as a 64th minute substitute transformed the game — and it was his corner that led to Wednesday 's equaliser . |
| 29 | Luke Mallen walked out along the strip of headland that led to Meer 's Point and stood with Tom Carey as he fished . |
| 30 | Wallace Ellwood sat on a lip of rock above the path that led to Meer 's Point and waited for Tom Carey to appear . |