Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 2 | They are no longer playing with it or enjoying it , but try with a numb next-door-to-crying persistence to scramble over the wall and climb the slag-bank . |
| 3 | This is the beginning of the classic route to follow on a walking tour of Zurich , starting from the main railway station through the sophisticated poise of the Bahnhofstrasse and branching off for the Lindenhof . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a refreshing change to hear of an act of goodwill rather than yet another tale of violence and vandalism , ’ says marketing manager Ken James . |
| 5 | The second point is that of course as we accept into the role of opposition indeed to give these alternative proposals , give this particulary case to come within the government guidelines . |
| 6 | Donnington now produces the only beer on the Cotswolds and , with the possible exception of Uley , is the smallest working brewery to survive in the county . |
| 7 | Both were hard ridden but neither flinched , and throughout the final hundred yards Commanche Run kept just ahead of his persistent challenger to prevail by a neck . |
| 8 | Negotiators for the European Communities ( EC ) and the USA reached an accord on Nov. 20 on a long-running dispute over farm subsidies , thus seemingly opening the way for the conclusion of a worldwide free-trade accord to bring to an end the six-year negotiations in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 38888-89 ; 38939 ; 39170 ] , although bitter divisions within the EC threatened to persist , with France denouncing the deal and warning of its intention to block its final approval . |
| 9 | The two girls were rescued from the car by their mother uninjured … she 'd run after the car in a vain attempt to pull on the handbrake . |
| 10 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 11 | There was no reason to suppose that in proceedings under Order 5 , rule 5 , it was intended to enable a named representative defendant to claim against a member of the represented class without complying with the requirements of the county court rules . |
| 12 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |
| 13 | At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier . |
| 14 | The painting of July 1890 , executed just days before van Gogh killed himself , and France 's first historic monument to go on the block , was sold on 6 December by Jean-Claude Binoche to French banker and businessman Jean-Marc Vernes . |
| 15 | It is our usual practice to ask for a payment in advance of costs and thereafter to submit an interim bill every six months . |
| 16 | For the Executive Committee of the District and , especially , for Jacques it was also a fresh opportunity to strive for a rejuvenation of Tawney 's basic principle that the WEA was a social movement endeavouring to promote political , social and cultural democracy in post-war England through the processes of liberal adult education . |
| 17 | It is a peculiar text to publish in a catalogue which will have greater circulation and sell in larger quantities than either Sylvester 's monograph or the catalogue raisonné . |
| 18 | Compromising , Theda found a piece of old blanket to place on the coverlet so that his hairs might not spread everywhere . |
| 19 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 20 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 21 | Leave enough free cable to connect to the light fitting |
| 22 | Chamber of Trade secretary , Bob Clough Parker , has written to British Rail to complain about the ticket office . |
| 23 | We will allow British Rail to proceed with a leasing scheme of 188 new Networker trains on the North Kent line — the first step in securing private investment to help modernise Britain 's railways and protect our environment . |
| 24 | Moodie may have been a priest but in death his body had been laid out like some broken toy to lie on a shelf , the grimacing features half-hidden by a dirty cloth ; the eyes still open , sightless and empty . |
| 25 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 26 | Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust , |
| 27 | As I said before , the risk of collective action of this sort , which is regretted by many teachers ( as reflected in the rise and fall of the memberships of the different unions over the last few years ) , is that it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominators of more pay on the one hand and a narrow-minded , knee-jerk resistance to change on the other . |
| 28 | They had no intention of applying for a weekly permit to play on the street corner in every town throughout Scotland . |
| 29 | The solar wind originates in the atmosphere of the Sun , and consists of a tenuous gas that has acquired sufficiently high outward speed to escape from the Sun . |
| 30 | Is he aware that the chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , has deplored any possible demise of the Apex Trust , that the Archbishop of Canterbury is raising private funds for the trust and that the Secretary of State received an all-party delegation to ask for a rescue package for it ? |