Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As far as I understand there is not real move to do anything about the current trend for teams to kick the ball from 22 to 22 . |
| 32 | Through her tears Kit managed something like a real smile . |
| 33 | Or you could ask the author to supply one for a modest £7.50 . |
| 34 | Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment . |
| 35 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 36 | It was against her nature to tell anything but the whitest of white lies , but she was of necessity getting better at it , though it would never sit comfortably with her conscience and her sense of fairness and justice . |
| 37 | Over the years he had not only made himself a small fortune , but in the process gained something of a respectable reputation . |
| 38 | Newman and Copland walked to the edge of the entrance , a grenade silencing one post a mere 25 yards away ; over the water the searchlight of the Mole could be seen beamed on the river . |
| 39 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |
| 40 | The dissociation produced by this procedure constitutes something of a theoretical puzzle . |
| 41 | RADA offers two to three scholarships per year for UK students , Webber Douglas offers two , RSAMD offer a small number of scholarships and Guildford School of Acting offers one to an acting student , for fees only . |
| 42 | Likewise , control clicking ( holding down the CTRL key while you click ) allows you to select multiple items for processing and shift clicking highlights everything from the last highlighted item to the one your pointer is over as you shift click . |
| 43 | The reason is to be able with ease to identify the sender of the letter , who typed it , and the file number if the organisation has one for a particular account . |
| 44 | Fishbane has something on a grander scale altogether . |
| 45 | There were several discernible influences at work here — one was undoubtedly her father 's piping , which suggested decorations to the melodic line at North-east songs not always accustomed to such , and the other was acquaintance with young English revival singers who had incorporated into their singing styles something of the sean nos tradition of the West of Ireland . |
| 46 | Meanwhile , single mothers will sit and watch the TV and watch the advertisements which all show either happy couples or one single person doing something for an unseen other : ironing his shirts , organising their mortgage , driving his Audi to visit her . |
| 47 | Impressive results from building materials group Redland coupled with an optimistic forecast about future trading proved something of a damp squib as the stock added just a penny to 490p . |
| 48 | The result is that riders who want to avoid heatstroke have to wear as little as possible under their jackets and most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath ! |
| 49 | Most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath . |
| 50 | The end of the road to Flamborough Head brings one to the octagonal old lighthouse , built of stone in 1674 by Sir John Clayton . |
| 51 | Celtic3 St Johnstone1 CELTIC overpowered St Johnstone and remain on course to salvage something from an indifferent season . |
| 52 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 53 | Father trapped one with the old Malayan gourd trick , and discovered it to have only four toes on each foot and four fingers on each hand . |
| 54 | There was a shadow on the shower curtain , a human-shape holding something in an upraised arm . |
| 55 | A young man went downstairs early one morning wearing nothing but a short nightgown . |
| 56 | It costs the taxpayer £130-£165 a week to keep someone in a residential or nursing home , he says . |
| 57 | The Imams do not have the authority to change anything in the divine revelation of the Koran , but they are able to interpret it , through the divine guidance with which they are endowed . |
| 58 | Parliament changes nothing in the physical world by passing laws . |
| 59 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel , in balancing the stipulation of the above-stated section of the Act against your parental preferences felt unable to uphold your appeal . |
| 60 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel felt unable to override the stipulation of the Act . |