Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 2 | In the older cases I find no such distinction . |
| 3 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 4 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 5 | Anybody wants some copies I have a few copies here . |
| 6 | Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together . |
| 7 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 8 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 9 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 10 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 11 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 12 | With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape . |
| 13 | Behind those eyes I see a romantic mind . ’ |
| 14 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 15 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 16 | Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember . |
| 17 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 18 | Further , in the context of statutory demands I see no compelling need to give a more extended meaning to the word ‘ action . ’ |
| 19 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 20 | The consequence of this is that human beings have increasingly come to resemble in their adult form the immature — or even foetal — forms of their early ancestors by means of a tendency to delay their individual development and to retain into maturity characteristics which typified the immature stages of their predecessors . |
| 21 | Many of the cars being repaired have been converted to accept unleaded according to manufacturers guidelines which suggest a quick correction of engine timing will do the trick . |
| 22 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 23 | Choose the songs which show the widest range of your abilities , and put the best one first . |
| 24 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 25 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 26 | A wonderful range of special painting techniques can be used on just plain flat lining paper to give completely individual pattern/colour combinations which give the overall impression of a texture . |
| 27 | A coach will then help each student select those methods which match the dynamic performance of the kayak in use and which are most appropriate to the personal aims and values of the trainee . |
| 28 | When this is the case methods which give the entire distribution rather than some of the averages referred to above must be used . |
| 29 | It is important to distinguish clearly between the features of the paper based life cycle which were a product of the limitations of the media and can now be joyfully abandoned , and methods which have an ongoing role when re-interpreted into the electronic life cycle . |
| 30 | He has himself , let us say , spent a couple of disillusioning years in Bali , so that he fully understands the considerations which tempt the young man , but has the advantage of fuller information . |