Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS week 's bouquet nomination comes from an elderly reader who writes about a special and very kind friend . |
| 2 | South America also has a small tree-climbing anteater , which is a close cousin of Myrmecophaga and looks like a miniature and less extreme version of it , and a third , intermediate form . |
| 3 | These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards . |
| 4 | Bill looks at the Danish and then at the dog , its eyes fixed on the Danish . |
| 5 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 6 | A Daghestan-quality Caucasian rug is roughly the same price , and would therefore be classified as zero per cent ( 0% ) ; whereas a standard Afghan , which costs between a third and twice as much , will be marked as +35/100% . |
| 7 | Is it not good enough for ‘ Managers ’ to be sent with briefs , memorised in their heads , to have fireside chats with the best and brightest , telling them that in this day and age their promotion is really the ability to retain their jobs . |
| 8 | Since most social scientists and the readers of their works belong to the middle class , this pursuit typically leads to the lower and more desperate edges of society . |
| 9 | And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles , namely Pericles himself . |
| 10 | She added , ‘ The station should be cancelled now , before it turns into a radioactive as well as an economic catastrophe . ’ |
| 11 | Profitability , too , varies between the certain but perhaps unexciting rate of return paid by fixed interest government securities , to the more uncertain possibility of large gains to be made on equities . |
| 12 | Dry bone , on the other hand breaks with an uneven although still slightly jagged break but lacking the spiral element of fresh bone . |
| 13 | Kin and marriage ties in the eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries bound together such antislavery families as the Gurneys , the Frys , the Hoares , the Hodgkins , the Foxes and the Barclays . |
| 14 | Tonight , in Get Good Ratings With Sex ( BBC2 , 6.50pm ) , he embarks on a hilarious and increasingly frenzied mission to chase the ratings by getting sex into the programme . |
| 15 | Tonight , in Get Good Ratings With Sex ( BBC2 , 6.50pm ) , he embarks on a hilarious and increasingly frenzied mission to chase the ratings by getting sex into the programme . |
| 16 | She goes in the thirteenth and hopefully will be out the twenty third , I realize this is a big operation but I want Cheryl to come along anyway , book the table , stay with us , come with us If she could n't make it which she 'll be in so I do understand that |
| 17 | Nevertheless , even if they did not get it wrong , their discomfiture is a matter of concern for the whole market research industry , of which political opinion polling accounts for a small but very visible part of an estimated UK turnover of more than £300 million . |
| 18 | It appears as a dim but quite unmistakable blur . |
| 19 | But in the ‘ new ’ version , Blade Runner The Director 's Cut , due out at the end of the month , Scott opts for a different and even darker conclusion . |
| 20 | Moreover , we do not wish to give the impression that the cello and bass always work in double harness : on the contrary , they can be used independently to a quite large extent , though discretion and careful thought are very necessary in this matter , since the basses when used alone tend to sound rather dry , and if their part lies low and is far removed in pitch from the rest of the harmony it is too indeterminate in pitch to give satisfactory support unless it consists of a sustained or better ( since the bow is short ) a reiterated pedal note . |
| 21 | Suddenly a new aspect appears beyond the obvious and very gradually takes form . |
| 22 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 23 | A labouring person who aspires to a better and more rewarding life is judged to be grossly deceived . |
| 24 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 25 | Sporadically , Katherine Mansfield conveys the volatile atmosphere in the comfortable apartment and Beatrice emerges as a deluded and rather pathetic exhibitionist . |
| 26 | When the first bowl has filled , the water falls into the second and so on until it reaches the pool below . |
| 27 | The term ‘ buggery ’ , for example , derives from the religious as well as sexual nonconformity of an eleventh-century Bulgarian sect which practised the Manichaean heresy and refused to propagate the species ; the OED tells us that it was later applied to other heretics , to whom abominable practices were also ascribed . |
| 28 | ‘ Among those interested in ( and the much larger number pontificating on ) the history and philosophy of science , I notice an increasing tendency to attribute changes and advances to a mysterious but almost omnipotent entity called ‘ social-and-economic-factors- . ’ |
| 29 | Track descends ; 150 yds before bottom of slope , where track bends to the left and immediately before copse begins on right , cross ditch on right and bear half left on other side , keeping close to copse on your left . |
| 30 | They do this throughout life , not only in courtship , and the penis probably serves as a tactile as well as sexual organ . |