Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling can thus indicate the headlong tempo of the narrative or , in its twists and turns , a principle of sequence by digression — not from a ‘ main action ’ , but simply digression from what immediately precedes or succeeds a particular section . |
| 2 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 3 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 4 | Well , certainly an ethical proposition which incorporates or presupposes a factual claim can be inconsistent with a factual statement . |
| 5 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
| 6 | The high incidence of prostatic obstruction in this study emphasises that finding a raised creatinine concentration in any male necessitates careful palpation of the abdomen and prostate . |
| 7 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 8 | Wood finishes that let the natural beauty of the grain show through are becoming more and more popular . |
| 9 | ‘ By this marriage ’ , says Walton , ‘ the good man was drawn from the tranquillity of his college , from that garden of piety , of peace and a sweet conversation , into the thorny wilderness of a busy world , into those corroding cares that attend a married priest . ’ |
| 10 | ORCHESTRE : [ Rousseau gives ten reasons why the Paris Opéra orchestra makes the least effect of any European orchestra , the seventh of which is ] the unendurable noise of the baton which covers and deadens the whole effect of the ensemble . |
| 11 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 12 | It further develops and tests a notational scheme for this function which could eventually become the basis of a standard in this field of practice . |
| 13 | This programme develops and refines a detailed model of the Scottish economy constructed and made operational under a previous ESRC programme award . |
| 14 | For example , needs to account for why if the sentence P and Q is true , then so is the sentence Q and in order to do that it assigns a certain structure , for example as on the handout in my assigned structure and brackets P Q. Erm anyway erm it just has and has a separate particle operating on two distinct sentences that are not ordered syntax needs to account for the well-formedness of the structure , sorry P and Q. The ill-formedness of P Q and the similar grouping of and with or that is in English between sentences and where you can find one and find another but not with , not you do n't say John loves Mary not Peter loves Jill . |
| 15 | stuff 's no problem but er once it starts and get the medium stuff done as well |
| 16 | When eating small mammals , it frequently strips and eats the soft parts from the carcase discarding the skin and bones , and it sometimes accomplishes this in a most peculiar fashion . |
| 17 | signifies and requires a substantial redefinition of the traditional relationship between these sectors . |
| 18 | Such vivid , metaphoric language epitomizes and illustrates the ultimate truths and values of the police world . |
| 19 | The uniform group of objects that the programmer has when using an object-oriented model , also reduces the sting of the ‘ elegance and simplicity ’ argument used against the proponents of semantic data modelling . |
| 20 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 21 | The doctor may exercise therapeutic privilege if he thinks that revealing a particular risk would be adverse to the patient 's health ( Canterbury v Spence ( 1972 ) 464 F 2d 772 ) . |
| 22 | In a series of experiments , balloons inflated sequentially throughout the gut identified trigger points that reproduced the abdominal pain in most cases of IBS . |
| 23 | He nearly had the match purloined from him too because Bryan Beeson , who captained England 's world bronze-medal winning team , took the first two games with some astutely controlled slow drives that induced the 20-year-old England No.1 to make errors . |
| 24 | Visit the nearby Greek island of Kos and return loaded with duty frees or visit the magnificent site of Epheus , the largest Roman city outside Rome with its spectacular remains . |
| 25 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
| 26 | Club captain Jim Wilson says that winning the Irish youth championship gave the club ‘ a great boost . ’ |
| 27 | The fine print says that to become a technical member , the organisation or company in question must already be a member of one of the councils . |
| 28 | Over a loudspeaker came a voice speaking Latvian , but Harvey handed me earphones that carried an English translation . |
| 29 | He welcomes the thinking behind the changes , particularly the idea that people who use community care should take part in planning services , but he warns that implementing the new philosophy might prove very difficult . |
| 30 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |