Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 2 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 3 | If their shells are near the Julies , then it might be politic to shuffle them gradually to the other end . |
| 4 | But the boot room continued to play an invaluable part in this difficult post-Heysel period , helping Kenny Dalglish to establish himself quickly as an outstanding manager with the club 's first championship-FA Cup double in 1986 , and subsequent League titles and another FA Cup final . |
| 5 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 6 | When the revolt collapsed and Judith was released , Charles rode out with his uncle Drogo bishop of Metz to escort her home to a ceremonial reception at Aachen in February 831 . |
| 7 | In three respects at least D. H. Lawrence 's attitude to homosexuality was typical : first , he seems to have been able to accept it only in an idealized and spiritual form ; as Paul Delany puts it , he wanted not a lover but a spiritual brother . |
| 8 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 9 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 10 | Governors need to inform themselves thoroughly about the current state of the school building before they accept responsibility for it . |
| 11 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 12 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 13 | To hire one possibly for a specific specific job but |
| 14 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 15 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 16 | Along with the canteen , therefore , the parade room is a key location where , at the beginning of the day 's work , individuals start to immerse themselves again in the occupational culture of the station and adjust to the labour process . |
| 17 | The discourse of ‘ diagnosis ’ represents a coercive use of metaphor in that its aim is to replicate itself faithfully in the conceptual idiolect of all people . |
| 18 | Polyester : Polyester fibres , usually coated with synthetic resin to bond them together in a flat sheet . |
| 19 | Herbs and other cottage garden plants are back in fashion and what a novel way this is to grow them attractively in a limited area . |
| 20 | No country has yet settled on how to rid itself forever of the thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste that is piling up at power plants . |
| 21 | Those in power wanted the voice of newly independent Tanganyika to express itself forcefully in a printed medium that could be received not only nationally but also abroad . |
| 22 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 23 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 24 | As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere . |
| 25 | It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought . |
| 26 | A double bed with two entirely different types of springing to suit the needs of each partner exactly ; to ease them gently into the right positions to keep the spine relaxed and flexible ; to help lift the pressure off bones , muscles , tendons , nerve endings and joints . |
| 27 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 28 | The manipulations performed may include arithmetic operations on some of these character strings , but we will probably wish to do them directly on the decimal digits , rather than convert to and from binary for each arithmetic operation . |
| 29 | Seem to put them away for a long while but |
| 30 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |