Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROFITS reached an all time high for the Food & Agriculture Division announced by for the year ending December 31 , 1992 . |
| 2 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 3 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 4 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 5 | The Brazilian arms industry provides a second example , but in this case change came more from the workings of market forces , not , as one might suppose , from the continuing strong influence of the military in Brazilian politics ( C. Evans , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | Erm , I had a bit difficulty coming up with a case , actually , erm , this |
| 7 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 8 | To the left of them , a conch shell brought back from the Indian Ocean curled mysteriously in on itself , like the pink and white entrance to another world . |
| 9 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 10 | Then , some time later , Francis Greenway was accused of forgery in connection with a building contract made shortly before the failure ; and , tried at Bristol assizes on 23 March 1812 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life . |
| 11 | And just past Morfa Mawddach station an RSPB woodland trail leads off to the right . |
| 12 | Overall the preference was for a six hour course followed closely by the three hour course . |
| 13 | Oman had reportedly favoured the formation of a regional defence force drawn exclusively from the Gulf states [ see p. 38364 ] . |
| 14 | I suspect that the European defence force owes more to the French belief that , by merging German and French forces together , it effectively removes the threat of German militarism , while resurrecting the long-held French ambition to remove the immediate American influence from European defence , which is the case with NATO . |
| 15 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 16 | A bright-red saloon car zoomed past from the south and shot me to my feet with my arms waving wildly . |
| 17 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 18 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 19 | Ruari and Ranald normally lazed about , cut peat , or borrowed a boat and rowed out to do a bit fishing to stock up for the winter , while Luch did her usual tasks and her usual check on the baby — the babies , now — in the bower . |
| 20 | After the initial nationalisation programme carried out by the post-war Labour government , there was relatively little change in the frontiers between the state sector and the private sector . |
| 21 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 22 | The next section examines evidence drawn from a three-year monitoring study carried out by the author and colleagues in the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 23 | Shipments by the Japanese personal computer industry fell again in the year to March 31 , extending the then unprecedented decline of the previous year : total personal computer and peripheral shipments fell 10% in value to $9,540m , the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association said ; the previous fiscal , sales fell 7% ; domestic ships fell 13% to $7,065m , but exports were less hit , falling 1% to $2,448m ; exports of notebook computers grew particularly well . |
| 24 | Most accidents happen when a cable break occurs close to the ground . |
| 25 | Analysis of police culture is therefore particularly suited to the anthropological method , for it requires an extended field study to reveal much about the unspoken agenda which determines many aspects of police practice . |
| 26 | Some saw the irrational spectre of money illusion lurking menacingly in the wings . |
| 27 | Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship 's compass tucked under his arm . |
| 28 | The Charlatans ' ‘ Some Friendly ’ debut album shot straight to the top of the Flabby 40 , momentarily beating off those Chas & Dave lookalikes , Status Quo and their current ‘ Flakiest Hits ’ stocking filler . |
| 29 | The Charlatans ' ‘ Some Friendly ’ debut album shot straight to the top of the Flabby 40 , momentarily beating off those Chas & Dave lookalikes , Status Quo and their current ‘ Flakiest Hits ’ stocking filler . |
| 30 | One six-year-old Our Gang refugee stood solemnly by the car , too-long pants concertinaed around his feet , holding up the officer 's revolver in both hands , covering the fat driver . |