Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] and [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 | 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% . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles , namely Pericles himself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Suddenly a new aspect appears beyond the obvious and very gradually takes form . |
| 15 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 16 | A labouring person who aspires to a better and more rewarding life is judged to be grossly deceived . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sporadically , Katherine Mansfield conveys the volatile atmosphere in the comfortable apartment and Beatrice emerges as a deluded and rather pathetic exhibitionist . |
| 19 | When the first bowl has filled , the water falls into the second and so on until it reaches the pool below . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Perhaps most impressively of all , the visionary glow of the C sharp minor Fugue in Book One makes for a transcendental and deeply telling interpretation that silences all criticism . |
| 22 | Churchward was determined to provide Swindon works with the best and most modern plant and machinery possible , the works having been founded in 1842 by Brunel and ( Sir ) Daniel Gooch [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | Kahnweiler in Der Weg zum Kubismus is probably echoing conversations with Braque when he writes : ‘ Representation of the position of objects in space is done as follows : instead of beginning from a supposed foreground and going on from there to give an illusion of depth by means of perspective , the painter begins from a definite and clearly defined background . |
| 24 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 25 | ‘ We have less then six months to answer these and other questions which comes to the biggest and potentially most rewarding challenge of all the process of technology transfer to Pemex , ’ says Hopwood . |