Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Banks is a thoroughly Scottish writer , and The Crow Road has already been identified as his ‘ crisis ’ novel : a notable softening of the baroque violence and elaboration of the earlier books and the sideline science fiction ( where Banks hides under the minimal false moustache and wig of a middle initial ) . |
| 2 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 3 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 4 | A white paper containing a plan for single-tier local authorities is to be published in June or July according to the present timetable for council reform . |
| 5 | A named community , village , town , church or school in the UK or Ireland linking with a named community , village , town , project area or institution in the Third World , both in partnership with Christian Aid , having a link with the purpose of learning more about each other . |
| 6 | For most , however , the road from Andean mining towns like Potosi or Llallagua runs to the informal economy — as street traders in the cities or the coca farms and drug factories of Chapare . |
| 7 | Todd & Duncan benefited from the increased demand for cashmere and , backed by the strongest stock service in the industry , quality driven investment and new impetus in product development , made substantial overseas progress which should be maintained in 1993/94 . |
| 8 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 9 | R.24(2) provides that any solicitor or RFL participating in a recognised body must not cause any breach of the Rules or other conduct requirements . |
| 10 | It 's a choice between you and them , either they die or Turry explodes in a spectacular fashion . |
| 11 | The victor , presumably Ken Clarke , would be like a Goth or Vandal marching into the smoking ruins of Rome . |
| 12 | Jones & Smith looks like a simple theft case and the defendants should be so charged . |
| 13 | Eliminating the risk element in electricity prices is the most important benefit that ICI expects from the planned 1725MW Enron power station on Teesside . |
| 14 | Although Nizan adhered to a clear set of communist principles between 1935 and 1939 , his psychological state fluctuated in accordance with national and international political events . |
| 15 | The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) . |
| 16 | It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew . |
| 17 | The general consensous is that Kelly playing in the right back birth , instead of his normal striker role , had a brilliant game outshining everyone . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
| 19 | The moral justice that Nizan attributed to the Soviet state was heightened by the rise of fascism on the international scene , by the need for a popular front anti-fascist movement . |
| 20 | Even ITN has had to turn to CNN for some footage of the Gulf , but that does n't cause Phillis any problems : ‘ I 'm a great admirer — Turner 's done a marvellous job , ’ adding that while the US network has received plaudits for its Gulf coverage , it is merely returning the coverage that ITN provided of the Conservative leadership contest . |
| 21 | Not any more , there aren't. — You must need your eyes testing ! — Anyway , that Lock sounds like a right dump to me . |
| 22 | It is significant that Kerschensteiner insisted on the practical and the theoretical being part of the same syllabus , with the former leading on to an appreciation of the latter : it meant that ‘ civic virtues ’ had to be practised in order for them to become meaningful . |
| 23 | Although Hawke prevailed with a substantial majority , most political commentators believed that it was a pyrrhic victory which had left him considerably weakened and vulnerable to a future challenge . |
| 24 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 25 | This is because when the tetrads that Michell found on the one-inch map are investigated on a 6-inch sheet , they become distressingly ‘ crooked ’ . |
| 26 | They were unable to reach agreement on the delivery of a 900-megawatt nuclear power plant , reportedly due to French insistence that Pakistan adhere to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) subjecting all nuclear exports to inspection . |
| 27 | The USSR became India 's main external source of weaponry and rendered extensive economic aid ; Soviet support was in part a response to the support that Pakistan received from the Chinese , with whom the Indians had an unresolved border dispute . |
| 28 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 29 | The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction . |
| 30 | The two examples that Picasso owned on the other hand could certainly be called primitive , both in conception and execution . |