Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 2 | In dealing with the Renaissance , we are assuming , as de Man above indicates , that there is a relation between language and the phenomenal ( i.e. the range of activities undertaken in a defined historical period ) which is an a priori given . |
| 3 | Most are recently converted or purpose-built institutions erected in the last 35 years . |
| 4 | Rafts and rafts of water birds floated in the flat sanded estuary . |
| 5 | They will now be exhibited in a series of large display cases arranged around the seven circular balconies on the fourth floor . |
| 6 | Secondly , there is a category of institutions formed by a single former college of education or by the amalgamation of two or more of them , such as Bishop Grosseteste College , Lincoln , and Crewe and Alsager College , Cheshire . |
| 7 | Does he realise that , for example , in University college , Cardiff it is proposed to put an extra 1,000 students into the humanities building over the next three years ? |
| 8 | That committee , which had its first meeting last month , will examine progress on local programmes and will co-ordinate action in response to joint plans developed by the two cross-border communities . |
| 9 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
| 10 | Such clinics burgeoned under the 1991 general practitioner contract , but there is no evidence that they detect or deal with disease more effectively than case finding within ordinary consultations . |
| 11 | Dazed with the heat and noise , sickened by the stink of oil and sweat , eyes , ears and throats filled with a soft clogging dust like the seeds from a million dandelions , they toiled on and on . |
| 12 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 13 | Half an hour later he came back , his yellow teeth flashing in a confident cockney smile . |
| 14 | Rapidly advancing laser technology may now reveal some of the secrets hidden in the far infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum . |
| 15 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 16 | Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament . |
| 17 | This is a self service concept to allow those who do not want to leave their fresh air pursuits to indulge in a light health-conscious choice of foods . |
| 18 | As more and more decisions are being taken by management at local level , we need to ensure our local representatives have the necessary skills to cope with the new macho management techniques . |
| 19 | Beginners concentrate on the basic four : the front kick , the side kick , the back kick and , perhaps the most powerful of all , the roundhouse kick . |
| 20 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 21 | All cases correspond to an initial kinetic energy at h=100 km of 15Mton . |
| 22 | On March 30 a group of 14 Kurdish deputies resigned from the Social Democratic Popular Party ( SHP ) , which was junior partner in the governing coalition dominated by the True Path Party ( DYP ) . |
| 23 | She looked like a hell cat , sloe eyes glittering , teeth bared in a terrifying rictus grin , body rigid with loathing . |
| 24 | Dead rats , floating in the brown swill of beer with teeth bared in a last deathly snarl . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , until the creation of Nato , Anglo-American contacts relating to the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt were a formative and educative element in the reviving relationship . |
| 26 | The festival is pleased to provide an opportunity for audience and musicians to meet in the beautiful 12th-century church known as the Spurriergate Centre which serves a wide range of delicious foods and is renowned for its vegetarian dishes . |
| 27 | Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) . |
| 28 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
| 29 | The origins of Sudan 's severe debt crisis go back to the policies pursued from the early 1970s onwards . |
| 30 | Accounting as a means of collecting and reporting on patterns of expenditure has played a not insignificant role in shaping the policies pursued by the various public sector organizations . |