Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley . |
| 2 | In the end of American officers were rescued by the intervention of one of Khomeini closest associates , Ibrahim Yazdi , who had been with him in exile and who became foreign minister . |
| 3 | I do n't know enough actuarial work to be able to and what settlements they should receive , but our own experience is that it 's hard enough to round up pensioners to form an association and we embody deferred pensioners and they 're even harder . |
| 4 | If you use electricity to heat your water using the Domestic General Tariff and you install full Economy 7 Water Heating , you can have lashings of hot water at two thirds the cost or even less . |
| 5 | Mr Turner was the BCR booking clerk at Craven Arms at the closure and he held various positions on other railways after that , rising to the position of stationmaster . |
| 6 | Mowbray said : ‘ Every player wants to play for his home club and I have great memories of my Boro days . |
| 7 | Our curriculum is based on the 5 – 14 programme and we place great emphasis on the teaching of Language , Mathematics and Science , within a wide and varied curriculum . |
| 8 | He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots . |
| 9 | If a man who is a diabetic and who has arterial disease to the extent that this plaintiff had , is severely injured so that life is much more difficult to bear than otherwise it would have been , a defendant is in my view , quite unable , with justification , to say that a reduction in damages should thereby be brought about . |
| 10 | The stated objective of this new contract is to improve the standard of general practice and it proposes substantial changes in the way general practice is structured and financed . |
| 11 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 12 | They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair . |
| 13 | The material new facts that have emerged involve new evidence from certain officers who were present on the night of the crime and who witnessed certain things . |
| 14 | Apart from the support groups that CRUSE runs , it also produces a large range of literature about the problems of bereavement and it provides practical help in dealing with paperwork and other matters that a bereaved person may never have dealt with before . |
| 15 | It 's all anonymous , you 're not e e e nobody know who it is , it 's for it 's for a dictionary and they want new words that are commonly used and they do n't want and all old words that never get used it 'll be dropped in the next edition of the dictionary . |
| 16 | Well I think the answer to that is you 've got to remember this kind of hunting is cooperative and cooperative hunting does rely first of all on having other men to go hunting with you which is , which is important and also or so I 'm told by people like David McKnight and Warren Shapiro an awful lot depends on information , we want to know where the game is , who saw what where , what did they catch you know , was there rainfall over the so and so ranges and so on , and you need to know that information if you 're gon na be an effective hunter and you need good communication with other men . |
| 17 | Professor Hoskins saw little in the modern development of the English landscape that filled him with pleasure and one has great sympathy for his feelings . |
| 18 | She 's alright yeah , well I , I bought her a book but it 's one of these , it 's like a talking book a Disney one , it 's got like a keyboard down the side and you press certain pads and it makes a noise and I thought oh rather than just getting an ordinary book , I thought that would be quite good |
| 19 | Grace had been brought up in a very religious household and she maintained strict standards for herself but , she says , ‘ was not allowed to check or discipline John in any way ’ . |
| 20 | We equate service with menial tasks ; we are not educated in service management and we lack good examples or models of service excellence . |
| 21 | In 1891 the Review of the Churches began publication and it included representative editors from not only Nonconformity but from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England . |
| 22 | In spite of being a reservoir , Carsfad provided excellent sport and we had great fun ; as long as I steered well clear of the dam . |
| 23 | If you knit with a yarn that is too thick for your machine and it feels hard work to you , it is probably hard work for your machine too . |
| 24 | ‘ When you have showered or bathed you touch a sensor pad on the machine and it blows warm air over you . ’ |
| 25 | I was then well able to afford help and I employed private detectives . |
| 26 | Whether he will be as successful again is open to doubt , because his own playing career was then an issue and he had substantial sympathy backing both inside and outside the committee and membership . |
| 27 | Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold . |
| 28 | August 1915 saw them at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and they suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill . |
| 29 | When you wipe away the spectre of communal singalongs and seriously hamfisted , guitar-drenched versions of these songs in their live incarnation from your eyes , what 's left — on the supercool tracks , at least — are lessons in intimacy , humanistic notions of caring and something approaching religious rapture ( the old adage , ‘ Do good , for the good you do will live after you ’ applies ) . |
| 30 | Just watch a Frenchwoman wiggle luxuriantly along the promenade and you see relaxed anticipation of a sensual beach banquet . |