Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 2 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 3 | It was a light , airy room with some small paintings on the wall and two small clean bedrooms leading off on each side . |
| 4 | TOWN halls should not use dirty tricks , harassment or intimidation to stop schools opting out of local council control , Education Secretary John Patten warned yesterday . |
| 5 | A 10-FOLD increase in the number of schools opting out of local authority control is likely to be the most dramatic consequence of the Conservatives ’ victory , writes John Clare , Education Editor . |
| 6 | There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum . |
| 7 | ‘ There are too many designers starting out without proper backing , borrowing money from their mothers or making collections on Visa cards , ’ he says . |
| 8 | That may be so Chairman , but with these two four bedroom houses there could be another six to eight cars coming out of that entrance , |
| 9 | Mr Salem said there was an enormous increase in French , Dutch and Spanish shoppers cashing in on favourable exchange rates . |
| 10 | Motorbikes taking off with ear-shattering roar . |
| 11 | The photograph on the facing page shows a pair of pictures , illustrating two curved designs bending round towards each other . |
| 12 | The published departmental ratings arising out of this Review , insofar as they applied to Scottish geology , are discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 13 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 14 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 15 | For some reason this sentiment , which will presumably bring a mass of redundant typewriters and used notebooks bearing down in this direction , goes unmentioned in a report published today . |
| 16 | He looked , little doubt of it , considerably relieved , but clearly there was something on his mind , for he stood hesitantly beside the table , his eyes scouting around for some object upon which to focus . |
| 17 | It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business . |
| 18 | ‘ Because if you did , you 'd know as well as I that any youngsters growing up in that sort of background learn from a relatively early age all the joys of hotel life — like being called upon to wash sinkloads of dishes when the dishwasher packs up — or to change dozens of beds when the chambermaid calls in sick . |
| 19 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 20 | The acquisition of the Baltics , and post-war policy in Eastern Europe are areas crying out for more honesty . |
| 21 | To miss the odd target is acceptable , but not finds coming up at this rate and in such a confined area . |
| 22 | There are now no legal obligations arising out of joint action , which will remain until the new treaty is effective . |
| 23 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
| 24 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 25 | At hotels near airports and in major cities visitors are arriving and departing at all times with peak periods being the morning departures and arrivals building up during late afternoon and early evening . |
| 26 | In the weeks leading up to Live Aid , each singer and band forgot their ego and worked towards a common cause — raising cash for the starving thousands . |
| 27 | Look forgive me and were the first of the two troops going in through that door . |
| 28 | There were numerous dirt tracks leading off from this road , but she did n't recall seeing it parked in any of them as she passed . |
| 29 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 30 | In the days leading up to this fight to decide who would fight for the world title next year , Violet had been steeling herself to be tough and resilient for the sake of her son . |