Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 2 | About 245,000 people receive community care grants through the social fund and one million get crisis loans . |
| 3 | However , under the test derived from Caldwell , a person is not reckless if he thinks about the possible risk but decides that it does not obtain . |
| 4 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 5 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
| 6 | The strip goes through a rolling mill and a furnace which burns off the cellulose binder , leaving a strip of metal alloy . |
| 7 | Go along the rocks , descending the path which goes through a broken wall and joins a farm track opposite some farm buildings . |
| 8 | And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’ |
| 9 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 10 | Her character , Angela , goes for a Bohemian lifestyle and an affair with bumbling cop Matthew Modine . |
| 11 | Both partner horses whose careers took down turns after a promising start and now need to prove themselves again . |
| 12 | They huddle sensibly together in heaps of dirty wool while the pitiless wind shifts and howls between the shivering trees or flaps with daemonic aggression at the corrugated sheets of the sheds , outhouses and garages along the village road . |
| 13 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 14 | Their small church membership of around 10,000 hides the wider appeal Paisleyite politics has for the small businessmen and farmers of protestant Ulster . |
| 15 | In Masterman 's view , the Battle of Orgreave stands as a salutary reminder that ‘ what is omitted from television 's agenda can not easily enter the general consciousness and that the control of information , whether it takes a brutal or sophisticated form , is the very cornerstone of political power ’ ( ibid.:108 ) . |
| 16 | One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop . |
| 17 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 18 | Venus is much smaller , but nevertheless still has about the same mass as the Earth . |
| 19 | In order to achieve the state of energy that manifests as a rested body and mind , we must become active against our negative emotions as well as following other disciplines on a daily basis . |
| 20 | The 90-second ad , which breaks on January 29 , is one of the first such reciprocal marketing exercises between a commercial organisation and a charity . |
| 21 | The initial lesion starts as a small papule or vesicle , which ulcerates and spreads leaving a raised , velvety reddened area , which bleeds easily . |
| 22 | The semi-fixed search starts as a fixed search but then progresses to a more open mode . |
| 23 | The noise starts as a light tapping and builds up to a louder noise then stops suddenly . |
| 24 | Consider any form of life : how it starts as a single cell and grows and develops , with the specialization of different groups of cells to form tissues such as the supporting and connecting substances of the body and organs like the heart or liver . |
| 25 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 26 | Nakane 's work has a more voluntaristic approach , but even she writes about the assertive techniques that management uses to build up company identification of workers . |
| 27 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 28 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |
| 29 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |
| 30 | No matter what the future holds for the next generation and the delicate trembling wilderness , at least we can promise our children and grandchildren one sure thing . |