Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labelling can be a nightmare for the behavioural analyst because it can divert attention away from the real problems . |
| 2 | With their many variants and subdivisions they provide a wonderfully expressive earful for the alert feline as it goes about its business . |
| 3 | The HGT-1 cell line was isolated from a human gastric adenocarcinoma , and can not be considered a complete model for the parietal cell as it does not secrete hydrochloric acid . |
| 4 | Shoot the next rack on the left also ; watch out for the sharp rocks as you turn right at the bottom . |
| 5 | These restrictions , which dated from a congressional amendment to the US 1974 Trade Reform Act , effectively precluded most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status for the Soviet Union unless it agreed to relax restrictions on Jewish emigration . |
| 6 | She seems to confuse the royal family with God — capital letters surge across her pages , even for the definite article when it 's in proximity with royalty — as in ‘ The Queen and The Prince ’ . |
| 7 | You should look for the right company if you 're intending to buy one , the right situation in the right country and then move quickly . |
| 8 | And for the second time since she 'd first met him , he turned on his heel and left her , his blistering words still seeming to echo in the very air around her . |
| 9 | The eternal flame went out yesterday for the second time since it was lit on July 26 last year . |
| 10 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 11 | Small children scrambled for the scattered coins before they washed down the drains . |
| 12 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 13 | We headed for the 4th Squadron where we had been officially invited by some of the English members . |
| 14 | We pray for the general synod as it meets shortly , for wise decisions and clear leadership . |
| 15 | ‘ During the day I only paint when he 's asleep , and sometimes for the extra hour if he 's happy playing beside me . |
| 16 | The weary visitor would sigh with relief that the production had at least been cut to two hours , and head for the nearest library where she might enjoy reading about the buried feminine aspects of the play . |
| 17 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service when he last met representatives of civil service unions to discuss morale and recognition . |
| 18 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service when he last met representatives of the civil service unions to discuss the operation of executive agencies . |
| 19 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will introduce arrangements so that each Department of State has co-equal male and female permanent secretaries . |
| 20 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a statement on the ’ next steps ’ programme . |
| 21 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a statement on progress in increasing the number of women registered with the public appointments unit . |
| 22 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a progress report on the Civil Service college . |
| 23 | And Rover is right : by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a replacement for the dogged Montego because it competes in a different class . |
| 24 | It has been an exhausting three days for the Labour Whips as they trawled the corridors of the Palace to try to find people who they could wheel in to speak in this debate . |
| 25 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 26 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 27 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 28 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 29 | In civil defence terms the Scud attacks , directed as they were at civilian populations , posed a dilemma for the Israeli authorities as it was not known in advance whether the missiles would carry conventional or chemical warheads . |
| 30 | A rabbit would surface and immediately make a bolt for the closest hole when he sensed the hawk . |