Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know the sort : he fulfils damn near every anti-rock stereotype going , confirms every prejudice levelled at gilded Yank youth , stares deep into the mysteries of his navel while the world turns , or even burns , looks scarily like Paul Simon … and is the leader of an improbably great band . |
| 2 | The result is that pin 10 goes low for a fixed period determined by the values of C1 and R2 ; approximately 0.1 seconds with the values given . |
| 3 | Every production has its own approach , each trying to bring the mystery plays alive for a modern audience . |
| 4 | The Timer IC2 is connected as a monostable — that is , once triggered in this way the output , pin 3 , goes high for a certain time then reverts to low . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 6 | When anything goes wrong on the surgical side the fault is automatically mine . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes ’ , says Spencer ‘ when it goes wrong , it goes wrong in a big way . ’ |
| 8 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 9 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 10 | The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend . |
| 11 | Sun attributed its profit drop to gross margin declines due to a heavier mix of upgrade shipments ( specifically to Models 30 and 41 because it could n't deliver its more powerful systems ) and increased shipments of non-systems components such as memory and storage . |
| 12 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 13 | Thus Spunk stands bereft on the stark crag , with old winds whistling . |
| 14 | Category three saw Jasper Sharpe outreach everyone to gain 127 points and he looks favourite for an overall winner ; Gareth Parry came second and Simon Scully was third . |
| 15 | In considering any symbol which has light as an essential quality , we are open to a bewilderingly large span of concepts , both physical and metaphysical . |
| 16 | The fold stands empty in the drowned field , |
| 17 | In accord with its graphic image , the desired detachment stands half-way between a mild staccato and a legato . |
| 18 | In contrast , cells in V4 respond relatively sluggishly when spectrally pure colours are used to illuminate scenes , especially when the scene looks washed-out to a human observer . |
| 19 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 20 | He quoted Bruner : ‘ A curriculum ought to be built around great issues , principles and values that a society deems worthy of the continued concern of its members . ’ |
| 21 | The oral shield is variable in shape from a rounded triangular to slightly pentagonal ; it lies proximal to the genital slits not spanning them . |
| 22 | Or Dostoevsky holds firm to a certain grandness and climactic force , while inverting the podvig and rendering it passive , when Stavrogin ‘ endures ’ a tremendous punch in the face from Shatov . |
| 23 | If this is true for you , it may be worth considering the movement that lies immanent in every English sentence . |
| 24 | The traditional MacLeod tartan also looks good on the simple shapes , as the more traditional the tartan , the more lines there are which makes the ceramics look less bland . ’ |
| 25 | Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before . |
| 26 | Er and then the submediant , because it lies halfway between the upper tonic the eighth note of the scale and the subdominant . |
| 27 | Söll lies deep in an Alpine valley beneath the towering Wilder Kaiser mountain range . |
| 28 | The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit , as deep as the soul 's quest for happiness . |
| 29 | The Wizard Kaster Dreckspatz of Altdorf lies still in the Great Hospice of Frederheim after one attempt to breach the walls . |
| 30 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |