Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |
| 2 | Crystals of gypsum grow within the pores of the rock where they exert mechanical stress , creating tiny fractures which eventually cause the stonework to crumble . |
| 3 | An emotivist will think that Butler is merely expressing and inviting an attitude whereby we favour this sort of system of self control , while an intuitionist will think that there is tacit appeal to an intuition as to what ought to be . |
| 4 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |
| 5 | The victim was taken to the Royal Infirmary where he received 20 stitches . |
| 6 | Devine improved for the fourth time this winter when he reached 64.40 metres at a meeting in Melbourne . |
| 7 | After the ceremony Agnes and Maxim walked through other halls of the museum where she displayed more knowledge of the aeroplanes and nearly as much of the rockets as Maxim — essentially a personal-weapons infantryman — could offer . |
| 8 | Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information . |
| 9 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 10 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 11 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 12 | No we 're not actually losing money but I mean with Traidcraft we are getting to the low point where we put borrowed stock |
| 13 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
| 14 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 15 | Ideally , they should be kept in the open where they get good light , but are not exposed to severe winds . |
| 16 | I witnessed the moment when they recognised each other . |
| 17 | Have you ever noticed that when Christians speak about how they became followers of Jesus , nearly everyone will concentrate on the moment when they faced that crisis , and made their decision ? |
| 18 | ‘ This now brings me to the moment when I have immense pleasure in asking Douglas Irwin to come up and receive the watch worn by his father on that fateful night nearly fifty years ago . |
| 19 | No up where the other 's are , where they 've just hidden in the bushes , I found sum brand new ones on Wednesday or Thur , after we had the heavy rain Why we going this way ? |
| 20 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 21 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 22 | ‘ The youngest watches TV like every other little boy , and from that he thinks that prison is a place where they put bad people who 've done terrible things , ’ explains Margaret . |
| 23 | After his retirement there was no place where he took more delight in an invitation to talk than in one of the Cambridge churches or one of the college chapels . |
| 24 | That afternoon he preached to three thousand people , so it is claimed , and the place where he preached that sermon is known as Fox 's Pulpit . |
| 25 | The people taking part commit themselves to half an hour of scripture based prayer each day and a half hour meeting with a ‘ Prayer Guide ’ each evening when they receive personal guidance . |
| 26 | Mr Norrie had been walking along Leith 's Great Junction Street on Friday evening when he saw two youths approaching him . |
| 27 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 28 | Obviously with a computer background , I wanted to go into a business where you had large volumes . |
| 29 | They , too , felt the almost physical barrier of a partisan crowd at Ibrox especially in that first half period when they lost two goals . |
| 30 | Ground Engineer 's licences , " A " - " C " and " X " categories , a Wireless Air Operator 's licence and an Instructor 's rating — in preparation for the period when he entered civil aviation . |