Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 2 | First of all , the main story in our news at five thirty , and I think unless anything more dramatic happens , it will be the main story right through the news bulletins of this programme . |
| 3 | It was a sore point with some villagers who never wished it there and were glad to see its removal during the 1939–45 war for scrap along with the church railings . |
| 4 | Table 5.6 shows a sample passage of handwritten text together with the recognition results for it , and the reductions in the number of candidates which would have been allowed , had a measure of word length been used . |
| 5 | This hazard is avoided by introducing hysteresis in to the comparator characteristics as shown in Fig. 7.3 — so that small changes in the signal from the photosensitive device do not give further detected pulses . |
| 6 | Four boys , drunk to the wide , started a mock fight down by the park railings . |
| 7 | So , always , dump the carriage and the lace carriage on to the extension rails , so that no accidents can occur . |
| 8 | Then I had to place the silver-coloured piece on to the needle heads with the latches open and draw the knitting towards me so that the latches closed and the knitting slid on to the silver piece . |
| 9 | The second sentence constitutes part of the setting along with the time elements established in the first sentence . |
| 10 | VHS hi-fi stereo sound , unlike VHS mono , is encoded at high speed along with the picture signals in the same way as Video 8 hi-fi , and hence has the same high standard of audio quality . |
| 11 | At a muddy little pond halfway up the hill swallows were dive-bombing its insect life and three brown pigs browsed at the further end of the meadow . |
| 12 | In Chapter 3 we identified ten ‘ generic activities ’ which we found to underpin primary classroom practice regardless of the subject labels used by the teacher , and argued that these activities therefore constitute at least as important a curriculum reality — certainly for children — as terms like ‘ topic ’ or even ‘ language ’ . |
| 13 | The recorder section also receives sound signals from a built-in microphone and puts these onto the tape along with the video pictures . |
| 14 | New product launches , for example , are often sprung on the PR department long after the lead times for important monthlies and weeklies have passed . |
| 15 | A downstream firm may wish to integrate grate backwards despite the scale economies in order to value ( shadow price ) additional units of input at marginal cost . |
| 16 | I have purposely positioned this photograph away from the conference photographs to avoid readers confusing it with views of the Institute Officers . |
| 17 | Gill naturally began probing top British Aerospace personnel who , facing redundancy and compulsory relocation away from the Home Counties to the North of England , were interested in the opportunities on offer . |
| 18 | They might as well all resign and hand the club over to the TV bosses . ’ |
| 19 | At this stage , Scott was obviously not pleading for the setting aside of the competition results , as has been suggested , but on the contrary , for the employment of the successful competitors , of whom there were four including Barry , with more right to the work than he had . |
| 20 | The creation of a zonal level of administration directly under the Home Affairs Ministry was announced at the end of 1988 with the 18 existing districts or dzongkhags to be grouped under four zonal administrative headquarters . |
| 21 | A prerequisite for a school 's involvement in the project is the setting up of a library resources committee to undertake the detailed development of the proposal and its associated spending plans . |
| 22 | Doggett spurred away , followed by a reluctant Nosey , while Sharpe dismounted and led his horse back to the chestnut trees which grew at the road 's fork . |
| 23 | Rory took the low-slung car cautiously over the traffic humps . |
| 24 | So the thing , the thing to do is to sort of dot around in the conversation things like pre antidisestablishmentarianism . |
| 25 | The Chancellor said he wanted talks with the opposition immediately after the Easter holidays . |
| 26 | Art historians may be interested in anything which requires the use of one 's eyes in order to understand it , from Chartres Cathedral and Michelangelo 's Moses to the signs and symbols of everyday life in twentieth-century society , and they may find the objects of their study anywhere from the sale rooms to the archaeologist 's excavation trench . |
| 27 | All they have to do is pick a hotel or apartment away from the disco areas . |
| 28 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 29 | He only reveals his true feelings when he throws his flower into Mary Vetsera 's grave just before the curtain falls . |
| 30 | The first was the reason for sponsorship was visibility and publicity , the second social responsibility , the third brand development with special reference obviously to the drink companies . |