Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | The driver launches forward for a narrow escape . |
| 3 | Moscow sets terms for unity debate Following are extracts from an address to members of the European Parliament given yesterday by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 4 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 5 | Her features were well-shaped even so early , and the jaw placed finely on the white neck with its blue flush of springing hair . |
| 6 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 7 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 8 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 9 | A highly complex drug made up of a whole series of chemicals with different reaction times , designed to fire particular synapses in the brain itself — to create , if you like , a false landscape of experience . |
| 10 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 11 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 12 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 13 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 14 | Green Realignment 's independent existence got off to an uncertain start when one of the six members of its steering group , Lou Betts , announced that he had decided to rejoin the Green Party . |
| 15 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 16 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 17 | A white T-shirt clung faithfully to the contoured steel of his pectoral muscles . |
| 18 | The back door of the kitchen led out onto a slate-paved path at the foot of three steep terraces giving much lebensraum to many varieties of voracious weeds and scrubby elder bushes . |
| 19 | The plan was devised with the help of the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , which welcomes China 's decision to go ahead as a major step toward saving the panda . |
| 20 | The 14 night Sovereign Wildlife Safari drives far across the Kenyan plains , visiting the huge game reserves at Samburu and Maasai Mara . |
| 21 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 22 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 23 | The Mandera refugee camp sits just inside the Kenyan border with Somalia . |
| 24 | If the disk is preserved A. abyssorum differs further in the naked ventral interradial area and in the coarser scaling of the disk . |
| 25 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 26 | The win earns them the opportunity to go forward to the national championships at Hemel Hempstead in the south of England . |
| 27 | The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced . |
| 28 | Unlike other countries , Britain does not allow the money to go straight to the local authorities to which it has been allocated . |
| 29 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 30 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |