Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a shot of his diminishing body in black silhouette as it falls on the background roof ( the viewpoint is vertical from above ) , we actually see the other half of the matte itself repeat the action as his body falls , a diminishing form on a blank background — possibly a unique example of this type of effect and audacious even for Hitchcock . |
| 2 | Essentially , this is what tallies were , wooden sticks used in accounting and common all over Europe . |
| 3 | Students should have at least an Upper Second Class Honours degree or equivalent either in Philosophy or in another subject where there is evidence of the student 's aptitude for studies in philosophy . |
| 4 | Students must have at least an Upper Second Class Honours degree or equivalent either in Philosophy or in another subject where there is evidence that the student can convert successfully to the study of Philosophy . |
| 5 | COTES DU RHONE ( Morrisons , £2.99 ) : A gloriously full , juicy , fruity red that is good enough for the turkey and cheap enough for party drinking . |
| 6 | There was a story about an oil tanker that had veered off course and steamed right through Heaven Sound . |
| 7 | I have no doubt that were he here today he would tell us that he was merely offering the hypothesis as a basis for argument ; but bearing in mind that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is the author of the words that I uttered a moment or two ago in support of the analysis of the historical nature of the government of Scotland , the Government should certainly take some account of this further straw in the wind . |
| 8 | He might pick up a truth or two perhaps from servants or villagers of the Old Baron 's generation . ’ |
| 9 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 10 | The same car registered just a week or two later in January will be worth several hundred pounds more when it 's time to trade it in . |
| 11 | He admits he enjoys a beer or two away from race weekends . |
| 12 | In the case of specific requests please ring the appropriate number below between eight o'clock in the morning and six o'clock at night . |
| 13 | These are marvellous opportunities to invite all sorts of people — friends , neighbours , relatives — to visit at any time between , say , eleven o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at night . |
| 14 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 15 | Henceforth , like St Paul , she was dead to the world and alive only to God . |
| 16 | It used to be 9 p.m. in summer and 8 p.m. in winter . |
| 17 | They rose at 4 a.m. in summer and 5 a.m. in winter , and together attended three daily services in the church : Matins , Evensong and the Litany . |
| 18 | It is the only continuous book he ever wrote after 1945 — the rest is all essays and articles — and perhaps the only entire book by any British-born critic of the age to work moral and literary concerns into a single exercise of radical intellect , as indifferent to tact as to fashion and concerned only with truth itself . |
| 19 | This effect was greater for subjects reading aloud than for silent reading and larger again for subjects who were led to expect a test on what they had read . |
| 20 | The party is to be held in Dover between 12 noon and 11 pm on Saturday April 10 where the Ross Revenge — which houses the pirate radio station — is berthed . |
| 21 | The cane basket on the handlebars of her bicycle was always full on leaving the house and full again with things from her mother 's house when she came back . |