Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 2 | Governments , it seems , have yet to learn a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge : the tobacco industry has got them precisely where it wants them . |
| 3 | This county council has funded them more than social services erm , for , I do n't have the figures in front of me today , but for a long time , erm , this is unlike the overwhelming majority of county councils , who spend more on social services than they do on the police . |
| 4 | But now her husband has tracked her down and obtained a High Court order for the return of his children to America . |
| 5 | Correctionalist criminologists , of all varieties , join all the other agents of social control that capitalism utilises to patch itself up and keep its exploitative machinations justified and operational . |
| 6 | Now this head has pulled it back and parents have to meet in the playground . |
| 7 | If the magnet flux is concentrated in certain poles because of the winding excitation then the rotor tends to align itself so that the air-gap reluctance of the flux path is minimised . |
| 8 | Classic shifts to take you anywhere and everywhere |
| 9 | So using the maths helps to get it more and more accurate , but there comes a point where it . |
| 10 | When the train has borne us away and we settle into our corner , have we feelings of remorse or satisfaction ? |
| 11 | Now the National Rivers Authority wants to put them back where they belong . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State has given nothing today but bland generalities , and the situation will continue as it is until there is a change of Government policy . |
| 13 | ‘ Putting on this performance has brought everyone together and there has been a buzz around the building during the last few days . ’ |
| 14 | The army has made it endlessly and publicly clear that it does not want to get involved . |
| 15 | The whole affair has cost him more than £650,000 in fees for legal and financial advice , his spokesmen said last night . |
| 16 | A horse naturally shifts from a walk to a trot , and then to a gallop , Taylor 's team found , at the speed where each pace begins to cost it more than the minimum amount of oxygen . |
| 17 | Must admit probably cos my old man 's had them ever since I 've been alive . |
| 18 | Put the carpets , put everything in and er and we paid for it and they still go ad now course the national union 's taken it over but when we joined the national union there were two things that er I stipulated before we 'd join . |
| 19 | The modules are listed beside each package version along with the names of the files which that package version uses to transfer them in and out of LIFESPAN . |
| 20 | Conversely , when a nation begins to see itself historically and destroys its mythology , the result is secularization and spiritual malaise . |
| 21 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 22 | The theologians ' determination to rest their faith on something more secure than history has made them more than willing , in many circumstances , to accept that the historical evidence of Jesus ' life is as patchy as the most sceptical secular historian says it is . |
| 23 | The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations . |
| 24 | He does n't answer because his press officer has told me beforehand that he does n't intend to talk in any detail about it . |
| 25 | So your mum 's cut it up or you 've cut it up this time just between the two of us and you 've cut it into two halves you 've got half there and I 've got another half . |
| 26 | The atmosphere has to find it somewhere so it goes after the molecules locked in the glazes and that 's when the real magic happens . ’ |
| 27 | The historian has to concern himself more and more with the disentangling of mass trends and less and less with the exploration of the work of individuals . |
| 28 | The analogy is that you are a robot walking up a hill , and your designer has built you so that you can only step north , south , east or west . |
| 29 | Your mother 's covered him up because he 's cold . |