Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bit tactless to remind them of home , surely , ’ said Nicholas , sitting down next to Sara and putting his arm round her shoulders . |
| 2 | Kurt Nielsen , who died in Aalborg , Denmark on March 26 at the age of 79 , was responsible for giving cricket in Denmark the injection necessary to raise it from mediocrity to a worthy associate member of the International Cricket Council . |
| 3 | Whether the commitment from present enrolled nurses exists to make such approaches feasible , and whether there is sufficient financial help available to put them into practice , remains to be seen . |
| 4 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 5 | ‘ A bit late to have it in hand . |
| 6 | ‘ which was not attended ’ Means there is no person able to keep it under observation and reach it in time to prevent anything untoward ( Starfire Diamond Rings Ltd v Angel ( 1962 ) 106 SJ 854 and Ingleton of Ilford Ltd v General Accident & Co [ 1967 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 179 ) . |
| 7 | If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ? |
| 8 | We lack the information necessary to relate it with confidence to specific plate tectonic events , as is possible for the Cretaceous , but the Cambrian sea-level rise might well have been a consequence of opening of the Iapetus Ocean , with the growth of a spreading ridge ( Anderton , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 10 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |