Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
| 2 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 3 | More handsome than ever in his morning suit , his black hair gleaming with a brilliant sheen , and his eyes , his once dark and brooding eyes , now alight with the glow of love in them , Marc came swiftly to her side . |
| 4 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |
| 5 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 6 | I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province . |
| 7 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 8 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 9 | All treatment was withdrawn for a minimum of two weeks , after which inclusion in the trial depended on a diastolic blood pressure >105 mm Hg . |
| 10 | From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity . |
| 11 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 12 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 13 | On this assumption , all is not lost , as the expenses of a training course undertaken by a self-employed person are allowed as a business deduction under general principles when the training is undertaken for the purposes of the trade . |
| 14 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 15 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 16 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 17 | They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe . |
| 18 | Like the implicit analogy between the Nixon pardon and a cleaning product , the comparison between denazification and the action of washing powder points to the arbitrary nature of the performative act and questions the authority on which it is based . |
| 19 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 20 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 21 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 22 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 23 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 24 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 25 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 26 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 27 | She watched her bare toe rub against the whitened concrete of the balcony . |
| 28 | This case points to a possible role for moderate hypothermia in preventing hepatitis secondary to ingestion of paracetamol , when it might be used as an adjunct to treatment with acetylcysteine or haemoperfusion in high risk cases . |
| 29 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 30 | Then dis discontinuity , does the function exist for a whole range ? |