Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text goes on to refer to a general trust clause providing that the heir should pay the legacies and carry out the instructions in the will . |
| 2 | * the user has perhaps to budget for the cost of the item , and will wish to maximise the value for money he or she can obtain from the expenditure ; * the user has to cope with the consequences of late delivery , faulty products , breakdowns and servicing requirements ( etc ) ; * the user will be concerned with product reliability and supplier reputation . |
| 3 | The former Middlesbrough reserve bounced back to form after a spell on the sidelines by hammering a hat-trick in the 6–1 win over Harrogate Town on Tuesday . |
| 4 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 5 | In the corner there was a discreet datalink terminal got up to look like a '30s radiogram . |
| 6 | Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech . |
| 7 | One theory is that the US was at a loss to know how to deal with the rebels becuase it had , indeed , been plotting a Panamanian coup , but not this coup . |
| 8 | ‘ Khan , you argue that unless you are permitted to build the kind of ship you require , the embassy will fail — ’ He broke off , shaking his head as if he was at a loss to know how to deal with the notion . |
| 9 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 10 | In fact , we can turn the apparent paradox on its head : what would happen if the people of the future decided not to communicate with the past , despite the fact that their histories told them that they were going to ? |
| 11 | After rounding the imposing sheer cliff face of Seelisberg , it is rather surprising when the boat draws inshore to moor at a little pier with no sign of village or community in sight . |
| 12 | There was much swearing , but the big man finally had a leaf of flame springing up to lick around the dried heather curls from the tinder sack . |
| 13 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 14 | They work out how much money to feed back to pay for the inputs for the next year , and the remainder is profit . |
| 15 | The Chancellor fought hard to improve on the initial proposals put to ECOFIN , but he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back . |
| 16 | There is no question but that VSEL strived genuinely to compete for the order , and put in an effective bid . |
| 17 | There is nothing in the Act to confer immunity on a conveyance or transfer carried out to comply with a court order , but the existence of the wife 's right to financial relief against her husband may provide sufficient value to prevent the transaction being at an undervalue within the context of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( see Berry and Bailey , Bankruptcy Law and Practice Butterworths 1987 , p294 ) . |
| 18 | I remember the boy rose once to go to the bathroom , his thin , adolescent frame weaving in pain . |
| 19 | In addition , the police were well prepared , stimulated largely by implementing a plan designed more to cope with an emergency at the nearby Toronto International Airport than for the event in question . |
| 20 | Lesson by lesson , Boy learnt how to behave in the company of men . |
| 21 | I should also mention the mess left near the bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton after work done recently to clean up the sides of the bridge . |
| 22 | Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre . |
| 23 | ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk . |
| 24 | High on Victoria Peak , it overlooked the city through a faint mist , the sun breaking through to gleam on the skyscrapers and the bay below . |
| 25 | The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee . |
| 26 | Saint-Lary-Soulan is a small resort , in summer and winter alike , an ancient Pyrenean village lost definitively to sight amidst the apartments , shops , hotels and other impositions of tourism . |
| 27 | The cutting went on to quote from the review , which had certainly been unusually savage : ‘ puerile nonsense ’ and ‘ unmitigated twaddle ’ were two of the phrases Sykes had used . |
| 28 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 29 | Colourful adverts for the Farley 's drink in magazines show a child snuggling down to sleep with a cup slipping from his hand , and the slogan : ‘ Five minutes ago he was demolishing the house . ’ |
| 30 | Colourful magazine adverts for the Farley 's drink show a child snuggling down to sleep with a cup slipping from his hand , and the slogan : ‘ Five minutes ago he was demolishing the house . ’ |