Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arm-chair socialists were too engrossed in scoring advantage points over each other and so paid no attention to the bell-ringer . |
| 2 | The 1988 budget occurred during that period and proposed legislation such as the Housing Bill , poll tax , Education Bill , Consumer Protection Act , Financial Services Act , Legal Aid Bill , Immigration Bill and Criminal Justice Bill had to be monitored . |
| 3 | The Bilingual Skills Certificate originated in this project and is designed to lay the foundations for such a development . |
| 4 | To resolve the problem that most organisations have multiple networks that communicate using different network protocols , the multiprotocol networking software in Oracle7 is designed to enable any client computer to communicate with any server or group of server computers in the network , regardless of network protocol . |
| 5 | The principal strengths of the human information processing system lie in its ability to make selective use of available visual cues and to utilise an understanding of the text to compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 6 | yes and I 've just verified that this witness agrees on that matter and that he has nothing to do with it , is that right ? |
| 7 | The difficulty seems to arise within the membership in knowing exactly what areas of responsibility each section has , what are the rules of debate for sectional conferences , are decisions taken at sectional conferences binding on the union rulebook relating to that section and within all of this sectionalization , what role does the Apex conference now play , as those members , like myself , are presumably within one of the other sections too . |
| 8 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 9 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 10 | He looked what he was , a veteran soldier , with sun-tanned face , clear eyes , dark doublet and hose , the only concession to fashion being the ornate , thick silver rings on each hand and a gold cross round his neck . |
| 11 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 12 | Usually is the first remedy needed in any accident or injury . |
| 13 | Or , for solid-backed shelves , cut pieces of fabric to fit into each space and then fix in place with PVA adhesive . |
| 14 | Fortunately a gong sounded at that moment and Bertha sprang up with surprising alacrity and led the way to the dining room , where Randolph was already at the sideboard carving the meat . |
| 15 | Less radically , the fashion for making heads , arms and feet from separate blocks of stone allowed the insertion of new portrait heads in old torsos , a practice condemned by some Roman and Greek writers . |
| 16 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 17 | The friendly little Asian appeared from another door and held his hands out for our tickets . |
| 18 | A later section ( section 256 ) defines them as ‘ statements of standard accounting practice issued by such body or bodies as may be prescribed by regulations ’ and goes still further by empowering the Secretary of State to make grants , ‘ to or for the purposes of bodies concerned with ( a ) issuing accounting standards , ( b ) overseeing and directing the issuing of such standards or ( c ) investigating departures from such standards or from the accounting requirements of this Act and taking steps to secure compliance with them . ’ |
| 19 | The presence of oxygen , not usually cited as the cause of a fire , is put forward as having caused a fire in a laboratory or a space satellite for the reason that oxygen is usually and by intention excluded from some apparatus or chamber . |
| 20 | It could also be because there was also a noticeable increase in the incidence of liver cirrhosis discharges during this period and the most liver cirrhosis cases are also caused by alcohol abuse in Finland . |
| 21 | With three world champions to her credit , Brazil is already nurturing more talent to add to that number and the likes of Mauricio Gugelmin are ready to step into Piquet 's and Senna 's shoes . |
| 22 | The whole house was in darkness , no glimmer of light showing from that window or any other . |
| 23 | In both books , while some are defeated , freedom of the mind remains in some form and will continue for ever . |
| 24 | Novation is the means by which , with the consent of the customer under a specific contract , that contract is replaced by a new contract made between that customer and the purchaser . |
| 25 | After concluding the deal through an intermediary , John H. Ross , Collins arranged to have the case transferred from another judge and then sentenced the man to 42 months ' imprisonment despite a recommendation of eight years by the probation officer . |
| 26 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 27 | But you will have an opportunity to talk to another adult and this will help remind you that you have just as much to offer as anyone else . |
| 28 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 29 | I have set out our determination to work for that agreement and the principles on which the agreement will need to be based . |
| 30 | People er I mean th they could n't help a lot because they 'd got nothing themselves a lot of them but there was a lot of help done without any fuss or bother , I mean er er a bloke 'd say er , have you got a fag ? |