Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career . |
| 2 | Once , at Lisson Grove , their car drew up alongside a rather battered Ford Cortina . |
| 3 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 4 | Enzymes are a form of protein made out of a very precise order of amino acids . |
| 5 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 6 | As the varnish dries , so the egg tempera closes up into a perfectly fine line . |
| 7 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 8 | Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing . |
| 9 | A police car streaked by on the relatively traffic-free side of the M4 , its siren 's wail mournful , and the flashing light replaced the sodium yellow filling the car taking my mind to another time . |
| 10 | Up top of a proud oak , safely saddled , hilled by summer sounds and accidental thoughts of Sunday hymn , the pale ten-year-old let his mind drift off into an even leafier land not on the map . |
| 11 | It is true that Eliot went through all the ritual gestures with almost perfect precision ; and his impeccably-dressed figure stood out among the rather battered brethren stationed in front of us . |
| 12 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 13 | Tense thriller concocted out of the most unpromising elements : three characters , two boats , and a lot of water . |
| 14 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 15 | But one , hung in the dining room , by a window looking out onto a most majestic ancient cedar tree , is strikingly different to all the others . |
| 16 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 17 | Meanwhile on May 29 the National Assembly approved an economic recovery plan drawn up by a newly appointed economic adviser , Alassane Ouattara , president of the West African Central Bank , in conjunction with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 18 | The sun shone out of a mockingly blue sky . |
| 19 | In spite of this very real hazard , however , it is not uncommon to see quite experienced pilots leaving the ground with the elevator up , which results in the glider zooming up into a dangerously steep initial climb . |
| 20 | The old guard hit back at the newly formed , broad-based Union of Democratic Forces , which is organising tomorrow 's demonstrations . |
| 21 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 22 | In 1965 the young Cooder teamed up with the equally young Taj Mahal in a band called The Rising Sons . |
| 23 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 24 | Oxfordshire have wanted it back as a site to open up to a much wider public , it 's not very suitable for a prison anyway , certainly since local government reorganisation in 1974 and they have plans for making use of it if and when it comes back to the county |
| 25 | The success of The Body Shop grew out of an almost naïve belief in herself and sheer hard work . |
| 26 | Erm , Chair , on the general financial position , it 's , it 's what I referred to earlier , as moving from somewhere where there were a direct employer or where we were grant-aiding a voluntary body to get on to a more , ultimately a more commercial footing , where we relate the money that we 're paying to the services that are being provided . |
| 27 | A keyboard adds depth to the slower , moodier numbers ( ‘ Better Life ’ , ‘ Leave Tonight ’ ) and the band come over as a pretty tight and professional unit . |
| 28 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |
| 29 | The day progressed and temperatures and humidity rose along with the fiercely contested matches . |
| 30 | Before my right hon. Friend passes on to a specifically Scottish aspect , I wish to raise a general point . |