Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was held that where an absolute owner brings an action for trespass he must prove title and an intention to regain possession . |
| 2 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 3 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 4 | And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk . |
| 5 | I have some sympathy for the Home Secretary in these matters , he is not an Officer of State who over-occupies the position for whom I normally have a great deal of sympathy I must confess , er but on this occasion I do have some sympathy . |
| 6 | And I mean , there 's , you know , the people who smoke need a boost of nicotine they 'll go and get |
| 7 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 8 | Without loss of generality we may take |
| 9 | Without any loss of generality we can take AOB to be in the equatorial plane of the parent star so that the acceleration is purely in the coordinate φ . |
| 10 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 11 | The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change . |
| 12 | It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal . |
| 13 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 14 | We decide on which piece of equipment we will buy next . |
| 15 | However , if a Night Goblin shaman eats a piece of mushroom he can use magic even if there are no other Orcs or Goblins near . |
| 16 | Thomas had decided that in his piece of writing he would set out his speculations on the history of the piece of wood . |
| 17 | The list of fax cards and fax modems with which the software will work is extensive , and covers just about every piece of kit we can think of , which is reassuring . |
| 18 | The most probable source of this innovation , however , would seem to be the nomadic herdsman of Central Asia , who possessed both an abundance of rug-making material ( i.e. , wool provided by their sheep ) and the need to combat the harshness of climate and terrain ; it is likely that they discovered — possibly by accident — that by looping or knotting short lengths of wool through a flatwoven piece of material they could produce much more comfortable and durable rugs . |
| 19 | They have to be on the outside right , cos as soon as it goes through a piece of material you 'll lose all the high frequency to it . |
| 20 | Attached to the ring was the piece of wire he used to pick locks . |
| 21 | We will begin by looking at intonation in the shortest piece of speech we can find — the single syllable . |
| 22 | If you are to finish any piece of woodwork you must learn to live with faults and find ways to disguise them . |
| 23 | Perhaps a double size piece of paper you can fold in your and then put the diagram in the middle , photocopy it , and stick it on , glue it on , the diagram . |
| 24 | James was always making drawings on every piece of paper he could lay hands on — even his father 's sermons were not safe . |
| 25 | " Relative prominence " implies that for us to have a rhythmic response to a piece of language we must perceive some of its constituents as strong and some as weak relative to each other . |
| 26 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 27 | To help decide on the relevance of a piece of information you can ask questions of it as suggested in Question Analysis . |
| 28 | As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two . |
| 29 | As a basic rule of thumb you 'll need a 2 1/2 ft wheelbarrow for a small garden where you are just moving light loads . |
| 30 | When he was at Cardiff College of PE he used to get Gareth Edwards to play . |