Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rifts of the The Fairy Melusina are heavily overloaded with ore ; during the Pre-Raphaelite Period it was admired by certain critics , including Swinburne , who called it , ‘ a quiet , muscular serpent of a tale , with more vigour and venom than is at all usual in the efforts of the female pen , but without narrative thrust ; rather , as was Coleridge 's Serpent who figured the Imagination , with its tail stuffed in its own mouth . ’ |
| 2 | The Clio 16V and RSi are also fitted with power assisted steering as standard . |
| 3 | Dartmoor and Exmoor are easily reached for day trips . |
| 4 | Although Uaru are not noted for equipment bashing , they have been known to move it gently aside , or even to spawn on it if it happens to be in their chosen spot . |
| 5 | To their credit , The Cherrys are more to do with cartoon frenzies than the slick professionalism which seemingly warrants a Spin front cover at the drop of a bobble hat , but it 's as hollow a victory as Linford Christie 's Olympic Gold in the absence of Carl Lewis . |
| 6 | After the collapse of their authoritarian dictatorships in the mid-1970s , Spain and Portugal were also admitted to membership . |
| 7 | What could have proved a disastrous appointment did , and Athletico were only saved from oblivion by the inspired choice of Reg Pybus as coach . |
| 8 | Phospholipids were then extracted in chloroform/methanol ( 2:1 vol/ vol ) according to Folch . |
| 9 | A crowd of eager ‘ punters ’ , and the illegal betting-shop on the waste-ground at the back of Budhill Avenue were also carted off lock , stock and blackboard . |
| 10 | Serum IgM antibodies gave weak reaction on blots ( data not shown ) suggesting that the high titres obtained by ELISA were mainly caused by IgM antibodies recognising native rather than SDS denatured antigens . |
| 11 | Preston Mill at East Linton is admirably preserved in working order . |
| 12 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 13 | Becky 's still haunted by dog attack |
| 14 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 15 | This brought the bitter words from Duran , ‘ How can I win in America [ a hint that the political climate between Panama and the United States is also manifested in boxing ] when Leonard 's Siamese twin is the referee ? ’ |
| 16 | Nixdorf is also co-operating with Pyramid Technology , whose technology is used in Nixdorf 's Targon/35 . |
| 17 | Frank Galvone is still based with Dracon outside Boston . ’ |
| 18 | Moving right up to date , Johnny is now signed to Virgin 's Point Blank label , and his first release — titled ‘ Let Me In ’ — has already been nominated for a Grammy award . |
| 19 | Here we have the notion that as the system of technology ( the domestication of animals and the formation of herds ) develops , it becomes incompatible with the social system , especially the system of inheritance and familial authority , This growing incompatibility , or contradiction , then leads to a revolutionary change in the social system , in this case the change to father right , a system which according to Morgan and Engels was better adapted to pastoralism . |
| 20 | Floodlighting was finally allowed for Cup ties from 1955 and for League games from 1956 . |
| 21 | c-Myc was then activated by addition of β -oestradiol to a final concentration of 2μM and the cells were monitored by time-lapse cinemicroscopy at a rate of 12 frames per hour . |
| 22 | Wheatley was heavily influenced by evidence given by the departments of the Scottish Office and particularly by the planners of the Scottish Development Department ( Keating and Midwinter 1983:97 ; Page 1983:44 ) . |
| 23 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 24 | And at last , in June 1172 , when he was fourteen years old , the great day came when Richard was formally installed as Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 25 | Karmal was subsequently replaced as party leader and president by Najibullah , but there was little progress in establishing the broadly-based ‘ government of national reconciliation ’ which was his declared objective . |
| 26 | Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was formally appointed as C.-in-C . |
| 27 | Pakistan was badly hit by revenue losses resulting from the Gulf crisis and by the suspension in October of US economic aid [ see below ; p. 37764 ] . |
| 28 | They all remembered the days when Lochranza was daily served by pleasure steamers and all the houses filled with ‘ the gentry ’ , the locals decamping to huts and sheds in back gardens . |
| 29 | Mr. Twycross was not asked in cross-examination about these possibilities . |
| 30 | Israeli politicians and officials claimed that the PLF attack proved that the PLO was still engaging in terrorist activities despite Arafat 's December 1987 statement renouncing all forms of terrorism [ see p. 36438 ] . |