Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morning light squeezes through a small split in the curtain . |
| 2 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 3 | Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge . |
| 4 | Gallons of intoxicating percussion guided rhythms fuel ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ like a train rampaging along an empty track as it goes for an energetic jog in the shadows , pacing along a tireless circuit . |
| 5 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 6 | The way in which polling day is conducted , little altered since secret ballots were introduced , stands as a reliable landmark in a volatile political scene . |
| 7 | Perhaps in the area of man-made climates has the physical geographer climatologist contribution been most significant and the work of T.J. Chandler ( 1965 ) on the Climate of London stands as an exemplary model in this field , and subsequent research by B.W. Atkinson on thunderstorm activity ( see Atkinson , 1979 ) clearly demonstrates the kind of contribution that can be made to document the inadvertent effects of man . |
| 8 | In The Tempest verse again stands for a superior ethos in stark juxtaposition with prose . |
| 9 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 10 | What Mr Eggar really meant to say was that there has recently been a high level of success in finding new oil and gas fields in UK waters during a worldwide downturn in exploration . |
| 11 | The meeting counts as the third round in the Ulster championship and will in fact be a two day affair for it begins on Friday night at 7.00pm . |
| 12 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 13 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 14 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 15 | A bright yellow light shines from what looks like a small window in the east wall . |
| 16 | Claudia Schiffer , pouting Bardot of the Nineties , looks like a giggling girl in her cut-off hot pants and jacket — a far cry from the sultry pictures we usually see . |
| 17 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 18 | What looks like a four-leafed clover in the centre of a galaxy is in fact a product of gravitational lensing ; the four leaves of the clover are four different images of a quasar far more distant than the galaxy in which they seem to nestle . |
| 19 | ‘ It looks like a glitzy yacht in white , ’ Michael said . |
| 20 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 21 | He probably looks like an absolute berk in this outfit . |
| 22 | A new era of austerity starts in April 1994 , and the next 12 months looks like an all-too-brief inter-regnum in which the economy is being given a chance to grow again before the tax blows begin to fall . |
| 23 | The beck trickles into the main street in the Market Place . |
| 24 | The famous Vassiliki wind starts with a light onshore in the morning , ideal for novices , then switches in the afternoon to a brisk cross-shore blast , ideal for experts . |
| 25 | It may be argued , though I think with difficulty , that there is no important difference between the modern welfare state and the nineteenth-century ‘ night watchman ’ state , in so far as it is still an instrument of bourgeois domination ; or that the welfare state — involving a high level of government intervention in the economy , the provision of extensive social services and a considerable degree of national economic planning — corresponds with a new stage in the development of capitalism , which may be called ‘ organized capitalism ’ ; or finally , that the welfare state is a particular stage in a general trend toward collectivism , inspired mainly by the labour movement , and from this aspect can be regarded as a transitional stage on the way to socialism . |
| 26 | The topic lies within the recent interest in both urban history and popular attitudes to authority , particularly those of women . |
| 27 | Pen-y-Dyffryn Hall ( the name is Welsh for ‘ The Head of the Valley ’ ) , lies in a remote hamlet in a fairy-tale landscape of verdant valleys , gently rolling hills , and pastures dotted with white sheep . |
| 28 | The answer lies in the real increase in take-home pay . |
| 29 | The answer to these questions lies in the political-economic context in which land-users find themselves . |
| 30 | At first glance the obvious explanation for Russian working-class militancy lies in the appalling conditions in which the workers lived and worked . |