Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size .
2 A ten week preparation course on to the Open University programme leading to the diploma in Health and Social Welfare starts .
3 It is those that will not that need a lot of preliminary experience building up to the Big Event .
4 In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really .
5 The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file .
6 I have been lucky enough to stroke porpoises from a rowing boat in Loch Torridon , swim in a deep burn with a baby otter in Ardnamurchan and help clear somebody 's cottage loft out of a deep pile of pine marten droppings .
7 The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit .
8 George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions .
9 Then , obeying an impulse she barely understood , she took the silver medallion out of the inner pocket of her bag , where she 'd zipped it for safekeeping , and fastened the chain round her neck .
10 Mr Lamont had cut car tax from 10 per cent to five per cent in March this year but his action failed to pull the car industry out of a three-year nose dive .
11 This was to involve the construction of a new Entrance Lock out at the main fairway into the Western Harbour and the fitting of large capacity pumping machinery to enable the total water area within the enclosed system to be maintained at an almost constant level .
12 Yet , till the day she died , she put the tea tray down on a lighter table , next to the heavy one , that had survived .
13 Mary had already pushed the soup pan onto the heart of the fire , and she said to him now , Get me the thermos , will you , Master Joe , and the picnic basket out of the bottom cupboard . ’
14 DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years .
15 The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific .
16 The United Nations said it was planning to build on its success and was hoping to get another aid convoy through to the embattled town tomorrow .
17 And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog .
18 This may be caused by the use of different techniques , for example , continuous rectal filling with a certain infusion rate up to the maximal tolerable volume .
19 However , readers are advised to phone the Club Secretary on before a long journey to check on meeting and/or speakers etc .
20 Keep the blood pressure down to a dull roar .
21 There was a hissing sound and Dhani drew a long silver shadow out of the black one .
22 And , an update on that fifteen car pile up on the M-forty in Oxfordshire .
23 Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again .
24 These details then lead the research worker on to the next step , which is that of drawing the threads together .
25 Regional trade association for the carpet industry date back to the 1930s , but the first national one did n't make an appearance until 1949 .
26 Have you been er worrying about Margaret Thatcher tearing a pound note up for the last twelve thirteen years ?
27 Finally , she grabbed hold of the dispenser 's cooling fin whilst it was waving a krill doughnut around in a vain attempt to attract custom , pulled it close and , in a casual and unremarkable manner , moved her hand down to the dispenser 's access plate and ran her fingers around the seam until she felt a magnetic bolt buzzing beneath her fingers .
28 She nodded her head at the cardiac monitor screen over against the far wall .
29 This downhill was set down the long-established OK course from Bellewarde to La Daille ; the two in February will be on the new Olympic piste carved down the precipitate north-east face on to the very heart of the village .
30 I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar .
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