Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Hill after seemingly endless hill take you through picturesque Broadstairs , Margate and back to Thanet .
2 They would also remove any personal belongings which were removable and next day place them on prominent display , according to Polperro 's Quiller Couch , ‘ … to disclose the disgraceful want of vigilance supposed to characterise the owner ’ .
3 Just three Calcia tablets a day provide you with sufficient calcium to supplement your diet , supplying both your immediate and your long-term needs .
4 Echoes of the signal alert them to possible prey , at ranges up to 80–90 metres in shallow waters .
5 Meanwhile , as Europe 's electronics companies demand that the European Commission protect them from Japanese competition , NEC is thinking of taking a stake in Groupe Bull , France 's loss-making state-owned computer maker .
6 Being omnivores , badgers will get used to eating just about anything , though very little will interest them on rainy nights , when the chance of getting their favourite food — earthworms — is high .
7 We must fill our minds with the utmost of irrelevant information so that things we look at will remind us of other things and the more distant and more ridiculous the analogy , the higher the chance of the idea being really valuable .
8 But only Parliament ban it from private land .
9 As a result of Section 89 of the Companies Act 1985 , if the Directors wish to allot the unissued shares for cash ( other than pursuant to an employee share scheme ) , they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings .
10 Members of Headquarters Battery follow them with varying degrees of success .
11 Dad give them into little bits .
12 Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy expose you to special risks , and we do n't recommend you windsurf with any of these conditions .
13 But in none of the above cases do the manoeuvres by which the main character resists her passive relation to language engage her in active polemic with other texts .
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