Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 3 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 4 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 5 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 6 | Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment . |
| 7 | He was always grateful for ‘ the healthy and restorative force that I see in the country . ’ |
| 8 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 9 | ‘ It was always the intention that we stay through the Darkfall and monitor the activity , ’ said Rohmer . |
| 10 | He becomes an entertainer , a manipulator whose victories we watch as if hypnotized , seeing both the tricks and the mesmeric effect that they have on the innocent . |
| 11 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 12 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 13 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |
| 14 | It was therefore with a quickening of the blood that I read of a builder in Birmingham who has torn down his house in order to erect something bigger , and inadvertently left his neighbour 's previously attached semi teetering sideways . |
| 15 | This is permitted only on condition that they help in the conquest of Canaan before returning to a settled life . |
| 16 | The Library issues floras on loan to staff on condition that they remain in the building , and accessible to other Library users during normal working hours . |
| 17 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 18 | Their holders would adopt the same position of relative irrelevance that they hold in the republican democracies of Europe . |
| 19 | Despite the eager shouting of his Goblin mates , the Fanatic really has little idea of where he is going , and will happily plough through troops from his own side if they get in the way . |
| 20 | Well once again if you look at the er er if you look at the full page which costs nine hundred pound on a on a golf club score card and you look at the full page in the A five booklet |
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| 22 | We have to live with uncertainty and we have to a far more adaptable than previous generations . |
| 23 | Race 's power to surprise fades as we progress through the 400-odd pages of ‘ raw ’ talk and we arrive at the conclusion more exhausted than enthralled . |
| 24 | The , did they have a piece and you cut off the bottom ? |
| 25 | They are hard up , you know , heavens they 're run they drive a crapped out , clapped out old car and they live in a ghastly little bungalow in the middle of nowhere . |
| 26 | Have one of those things in the car and you speak to the R A C or the A A |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll take you all dragon boat racing in Hong Kong harbour if you pay for the flights ! ’ replied Paul . |
| 28 | Nursing staff on some of those areas that we would pick out — those would be the intensive care units , the children 's units , the delivery suites and special care baby units — the nursing staff actually have control of permits which they can issue to relatives who are going to be here for a great length of time , and if they so feel that these relatives should n't be charged , they give them a permit and they park in a staff area at no charge whatsoever . |
| 29 | I do n't believe John , that that was the intent of the resolution , I 'm certain of that , that is the effect and I think in the interests of everybody , I 'd ask you on behalf of the C E C to withdraw that motion . |
| 30 | You do n't get the good , really good light until you get across the water and out onto these hills and that 's where the the good light is in that erm top i third of the picture I think is where the real quality is . |