Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty pound off you owe ten pound . |
| 2 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 3 | Issues which the profession needs currently to address centre upon training and fundamental research into what constitute acceptable efficiency and effectiveness measures . |
| 4 | At a time when Portugal was still living under a dictatorship in which homespun nationalist values were lauded , she was criticised for lavishing large budgets on a series of international music festivals . |
| 5 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 6 | Yeah I mean that might certainly give you some , you know , kind of you know regular attenders to er to , |
| 7 | The Plough has 27 bedrooms , the majority of which have private facilities . |
| 8 | The natural world is also populated with a vast array of mara ’ — ‘ they that kill us ’ — the vast majority of which harbour malevolent intentions toward human beings . |
| 9 | Many scientists are active in such groups in Northern Ireland and a significant proportion of them bring special expertise to their organisations . |
| 10 | A strong block can of itself inflict sufficient pain to deter an attacker . |
| 11 | — What 's a girl like her do these days ? |
| 12 | Eager to hound down deals with users of the major databases , the company is laying low with Accell/TP on its Unify 2000 database for the time being . |
| 13 | Suddenly , hideously , the world had become a mask — a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world . |
| 14 | sort of you know defensive thing . |
| 15 | in cos it 's always handy to give to her because she 's she 's looking for you know , I mean , sort of you know different things all the time and she 's got various |
| 16 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 17 | Serious eaters look at the red Michelin Benelux guide , which lists about 25 restaurants in the centre , a handful of which have one star . |
| 18 | He moved on to the dome , which you must imagine like the magic covers you have seen in your drawing-room under which dwell all sorts of brilliant little birds , as natural as life on their branches , or flights of mysterious moths and butterflies . |
| 19 | The vividness with which stray insignificant pictures from childhood would suddenly appear before me . |
| 20 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 21 | The rest of us use this time to make or mend kit , and to read up on possible areas to visit come the Spring . |
| 22 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 23 | The rest of us travel those kinds of journeys vicariously , slumped in a winter armchair reading accounts of Himalayan kingdoms reached only by months of walking , or of chucking in the job , mortgaging the house and sailing to the spice islands with oriental pirates . |
| 24 | ‘ The rest of you get some sleep ! |
| 25 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
| 26 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 27 | He knew that Eddie 's love for Catherine was immense , and that trouble was in store for whoever upset that relationship . |
| 28 | Do YTP and ACE of themselves generate economic activity significant to the scale of the problems ? |
| 29 | And remember : if you see someone swinging a punch at him come next January in the Five Nations then you know that England are on top again . |
| 30 | A neurone is a cell with a small centre from which stem long strands called axons and dendrites . |