Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 2 | We have stayed within the requirements of our banking covenants for the past eight consecutive quarters . |
| 3 | The lane led to the village one way , and off towards distant farms the other . |
| 4 | What happened instead was that after a while Filmer and Daffodil appeared in my view , making a diagonal course towards the station buildings , and pretty soon afterwards , accompanied by a lot of bell-ringing and warning hooters , a huge bright yellow diesel engine came grinding and groaning past my window followed by long corrugated silver coaches as the whole of the regular Canadian rolled up the track next to the race train and stopped precisely alongside . |
| 5 | Solent look booked for the Division Three title but the battle for second place may run on until the final game . |
| 6 | Amenable to more immediate action was the decision to write into the syllabus certain activities concerning language skills . |
| 7 | The final twenty minutes saw play confined to the middle third of the pitch as both linesmen became rather flag happy with a succession of offside decisions which infuriated players and crowd alike . |
| 8 | Some electricity companies may be able to offer you a token meter , operated by a token or rechargeable key depending on the type available . |
| 9 | The possibility therefore exists that there are specific T cell epitopes within the adenovirus 12 E1b protein — A-gliadin sequence homology that are confined to coeliac toxic prolamins . |
| 10 | Peter gave him a key to come in the flat any time , you know , of course he did did n't he , he was |
| 11 | He gave a stimulating programme ranging from the crystal clear Partita No 1 of Bach , through Schubert and Schumann to the 20th century Berg and Prokofiev . |
| 12 | Cut out a circle , 1cm ( ½inch ) outside the line , and cut snips into the circle all the way round to a depth of 1cm ( ½inch ) . |
| 13 | The contracts are among £1.6mworth of research secured by the university last month and brings its total research income to £14m . |
| 14 | ‘ We are working hard here to change a lot of things after all the problems the club suffered off the field last season . |
| 15 | He could remember the car pulling onto the verge 20 yards behind the target . |
| 16 | First , he could argue that because opinions are relative not absolute , therefore the equation drawn between the term furnished tenancy and the elements within the bracket is flawed . |
| 17 | Both Shaw and new net-minder Clancy played for the club last season and have agreed to re-sign . |
| 18 | Berkshire 's formidable Drake/Smith partnership began in the opening double confrontation in perfect harmony as they out-pointed Queens Patrick Hughesman and Mark Loosemore , 6–4 6–4 . |
| 19 | She heard nothing of the gossip exchanged at the laundry that morning , and answered only absently to pieces of news she was given . |
| 20 | An M1 cell probed with the No. 9 secondary constriction sequence Xb1 is shown in Figure 5 . |
| 21 | The T-Rex singer was 29 when his car smashed into the tree 15 years ago . |
| 22 | First a few exploratory notes , presumably on the Steinway Grand that Morse had earlier admired in the Lancaster Room ; then the whole melody as the pianist hired for the afternoon tea-room session fingered his way through the nostalgic chords of ‘ Love 's Old Sweet Song ’ . |
| 23 | I can hear gentle snoring coming from the room next to mine ; one of my flat-mates . |
| 24 | Section two describes the two factors which will need pronouncing in this period to achieve this objective , these are the usual annual commitments and the need under the present rules laid down by Policy Committee to commence from the highways project , the loan charges on the capital expenditure over and above the figure included in the transport supplementary grant settlement , that is the two point seven million pound figure in paragraph two one B. |
| 25 | Thus for the NO molecule a splitting of 1·5 eV occurs in the N 1s line near 415 eV , and for the O 2 molecule a splitting of 1·1 eV appears in the oxygen 1s line near 453 eV ( Fig. 6.5 ) . |
| 26 | Like the psychologist J.J. Gibson , Ullman attempts to show that many perceptual features can be recognized by relatively low-level psychophysiological mechanisms , whose functioning relies on the information available in the ambient light rather than on high-level concepts or cerebral schemata ( Gibson 1950 , 1966 , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | It is emphasised , however , that in all cases the final decision on whether or not to prosecute an assailant rests with the Procurator Fiscal . |
| 28 | This ritual restored to the mummy all his faculties so that he might enjoy the afterlife to the full . |
| 29 | Colleagues it 's now my pleasure to call upon the deputy General Secretary , Tom to move his section of the report and to address conference . |
| 30 | It was subsequently shown that this was also the case for intestinal secretion caused by the heat stable enterotoxin from Escherichia coli , certain bile salts , ricinoleic acid , serotonin , and prostaglandin E 2 ( for reviews consult Lundgren et al and Jodal ) . |