Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's cramped if there are four of you , but the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed — neighbours popping in to borrow a cup of sugar or a 50p coin for the electricity meter , children running along the balconies or playing on the thin strip of grass between the blocks . |
| 2 | All I 'm saying is , I doubt if there are men practising the Black Arts and meeting on a regular basis for drunken orgies the way Parsons ’ and Dashwood 's men did . |
| 3 | Moldovan President Mircea Snegur imposed a state of emergency and direct presidential rule on March 28 , and called on the population to prepare to fight for the " motherland " , following a month of skirmishes and fighting in the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic [ for formation in September 1990 see p. 37723 ] . |
| 4 | ‘ Just a case of first-night nerves , ’ I mutter , unlocking my legs and grasping at the steaming mug.Ruthie Henshall opens tonight in Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre , London . |
| 5 | I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother . |
| 6 | There is a shortage of industrial sites in the South-east of England and rentals are now coming up after lagging behind offices and housing through the late 1980s . |
| 7 | It was like the feeling he used to get when he played another game from his childhood ; that of closing his eyes and walking for a certain number of steps along , say , a wide path in a park . |
| 8 | We must , nevertheless , beware of looking at Spain through Andalusian spectacles and generalizing from the violent and precarious structure of the latifundia districts . |
| 9 | A PETITION signed by local people has been handed to Wrexham Maelor Council objecting to its policy of wheel clamping cars and protesting against an alleged lack of security in ‘ pay and display ’ car parks . |
| 10 | Zak raised his eyes vaguely in my direction but it would have been tactless to disrupt the thoughts behind them , so I pressed on forward , traversing the dayniter and the sleeping cars and arriving at the forward dome car . |
| 11 | Since the early eighties , developing countries have faced debt crises and rescheduling on an unprecedented scale . |
| 12 | The second class consisted of the 40 most frequent words excluding function words and extending over the entire concordance line , to represent collocates of the node . |
| 13 | Having analysed the parts of a question take and rephrase the question , using your own words and concentrating on the key factor , phrase or word of the title . |
| 14 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 15 | ‘ They should all have been delivered a week ago , ’ Stephen commented , shrugging his shoulders and adding with a wry smile , ‘ Welcome to de West Indies , man . ’ |
| 16 | Briefly , these factors are : the total population of the area and the number of registered library members ; trends in book publishing — i.e. the number of new books published per annum , broken down by subjects ; the length of life of stock on the open shelves ( depreciation rate ) ; the risen costs of books and binding on the previous year 's fund ; and the range and condition of the existing stock . |
| 17 | " Are you hiding something interesting under your jacket , Kim ? " asked the American , dropping playfully to his knees and pointing to the moving lump . |
| 18 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |
| 19 | Presenting a good size three bedroomed semi detached property situated in this convenient location , close to all local amenities and benefiting from an own drive to garage at the side . |
| 20 | In his affidavit , dated 27 September , Kahn alleges that ‘ remaining Velcro minority shareholders will be faced with the unpleasant choice of receiving either a grossly unfair cashout price of $21.75 per share based upon artificially depressed market prices , or equity in VRNV , a company which will not be traded on NASDAQ or any other stock exchange requiring the necessity for public filings and resulting in an illiquid market ’ . |
| 21 | An essential element in job creation is the provision of training for school leavers and retraining for the long term unemployed . |
| 22 | I made the pretence of patting my pockets and looking like a total cretin . |
| 23 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 24 | present their ideas , experiences and understanding in a widening range of contexts which require an increasing awareness of audience and purpose ; |
| 25 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 26 | Jumping to her feet and crossing to the big teapot which was keeping warm , Elizabeth answered , ‘ Yes , certainly . ’ |
| 27 | Their meaning can be unravelled by paying attention to the structure of signifying elements and interpreting from a cultural context constituted by history . |
| 28 | While I sulked in the tent , nursing my wounds and recovering from the thorough sandbagging , Mick was hatching a plan . |
| 29 | Time and again , witnesses told parliamentary commissions that women workers were either girls living at home with their parents and contributing to a multi-income household , or that if married , they were earning " pocket money " . |
| 30 | Even the cheapest bed should have five layers of upholstery usually starting with a thick layer of padding over the springs and ending with the decorative cover . |