Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said he understood the risks of the job but everyone on the case agrees it was a pointless killing . |
| 2 | She reached over and turned out the light , sick with disappointment to find she was no wiser about her identity than the night before . |
| 3 | The antis say it 's an atomic eyesore … a dangerous heirloom to leave future generations . |
| 4 | The Tenant Farmers Association says it 's a legal loophole which must be closed . |
| 5 | ‘ The lawyer says he is a perfect gentleman . ’ |
| 6 | But his lawyer says it was the wrong verdict and the wrong charge . |
| 7 | If your biography says we are a 3 piece rock group from Lancashire , we play soft pop and melodic songs ' , it does n't show much initiative . |
| 8 | Not only does the hearer assume it is the same ‘ man ’ who is being talked about throughout , he also assumes that the man will stay in the same place unless the speaker announces that he moves . |
| 9 | But though her mouth opened it was a silent entreaty and all she seemed able to do was cling to the top of her cage near where branches of trees hung and vainly try to say words that would not come . |
| 10 | Daedalus reckons it is the single currency . |
| 11 | The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system . |
| 12 | Dot felt she was an unwanted item of luggage being sent away . |
| 13 | Dot thought it was the loveliest book she 'd ever seen . |
| 14 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 15 | Although the position of the mouth indicates it is a bottom feeder , it does rise to the side to feed enthusiastically on the freeze-dried tubifex and swims in the lower middle areas of the aquarium . |
| 16 | Though this technology is well-established in medicine , researchers in Japan 's electric power industry think they are the first to take tomography outdoors . |
| 17 | We left Swansea tentatively with the idea of getting round Land 's End , but with a south westerly gale forecast it was a forlorn hope . |
| 18 | Mummy said she was a good girl when she was asleep . |
| 19 | And every Delta employee knows they 're an important part of the team by the end of their training . |
| 20 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 21 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 22 | For a Government with a fifty billion pound deficit to tackle it 's a tempting target for VAT , bringing in an estimated two and a quarter billion pounds . |
| 23 | But the council insists it 's a private dispute between the Maskells and the site 's new owner . |
| 24 | The Stadium management thinks it 's a major coup . |
| 25 | He had heard old men in the workhouse say it was a good place for brave boys , and that there was always work there for those that wanted it . |
| 26 | Jeff Jones , the developer says it 's the best site in the region . |
| 27 | The city council says it is the wrong type of grass and is too lush . |
| 28 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
| 29 | Exchange control was introduced in 1930 and has been in force ever since , but subject to the provisions of exchange control it was a basic tenet of pre-communist Hungarian law that foreigners had the same rights as Hungarians in all respects ( but for some professions and performing public functions Hungarian citizenship was necessary ) . |
| 30 | With Shadow Cabinet Ministers , Labour MPs and Prospective Labour MPs ( including the candidate for Orkney and Shetland , John Aberdeen from Stromness ) at the conference , the Action Committee thought it was a good opportunity to make a lot of politicians aware of the situation very quickly . |