Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 2 | avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five . |
| 3 | Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering . |
| 4 | The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports . |
| 5 | So that is how Virginia became friends with the witch of Wardle Wood and discovered for herself that the best way of dealing with fear is to face it with brave unselfishness and prove it to be false . |
| 6 | She has since died , and the Society , which emphasises that there is no question of the painting being sold , has decided that the most correct course of action is to put it on permanent loan with the National Gallery , where it will go on display , newly restored , in an exhibition of comparative material this October . |
| 7 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 8 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 9 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 11 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 12 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 13 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 14 | ‘ Once a mosquito 's bitten you in one spot , it 'll never return . |
| 15 | The plan is to put someone on all 277 Munros on the same day , and hopefully at the same time . |
| 16 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 17 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 18 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 19 | Those with extra cash are treating themselves to costly colognes and aftershaves . |
| 20 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 21 | Of course many committees are composed of old chums , but a way of making meetings less forbidding to those outside the circle is to hold them on neutral ground outside members homes . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp 's UK flackery is putting it about that Inside Windows NT by Helen Custer has sold more copies than Madonna 's weighty ‘ Sex ’ tome . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp 's UK flackery is putting it about that Inside Windows NT by Helen Custer has sold more copies than Madonna 's weighty Sex tome . |
| 24 | A helpful device is to print them on separate index cards which you carry around with you for a while . |
| 25 | The aim is to create something like this … and that means the judges methodically comparing furrows . |
| 26 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 27 | Brückner was watching him with wide , frightened eyes . |
| 28 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 29 | Bryan 's aim was to wean us off complete reliance on precise diagnostic features , and to get us to concentrate on the ‘ Personality ’ of each species ; on the way it holds itself , feeds , moves , calls ; its general behaviour and first glance appearance — ‘ jizz ’ for short . |
| 30 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |