Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 2 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 3 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 4 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 5 | I am thinking , for example , of the city of Belfast and other urban areas throughout Northern Ireland which in the past year have suffered more than ever from air pollution . |
| 6 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 7 | We have derived the condition for the normal component of D. What about the tangential component ? |
| 8 | BT went a stage further in its experiment , just completed , involving ten staff from its directory enquiries centre at Inverness who over the past year have been operating from home . |
| 9 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 10 | Although the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against membership of the UN itself in a 1986 referendum [ see p. 34959 ] , Switzerland had since 1984 been a full participant in the General Arrangements to Borrow ( GAB ) established in 1962 , when the " Group of 10 " industrialized countries undertook to lend to the IMF . |
| 11 | . Orienting myself through a large cast of characters , several long flashbacks , and a variety of thrilling events in New York and Jamaica , I came across occasional reminders of the novel … |
| 12 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 13 | His removal , reportedly suggested by Gen. Pinochet himself after an internal army inquiry , was accompanied by the arrest of three people connected with the case and the placing of a restriction order on another six . |
| 14 | But that does n't put Tommaso himself on a straight path . |
| 15 | In 1651 the Dutch republic forbade its diplomats to accept gifts from foreign governments ; and in 1692 regulations were issued in Sweden which for the first time specified the value of those to be given to foreign representatives on their departure . |
| 16 | It was J. J. Berzelius in Sweden who in the second decade of the century put atomism on a much more secure footing . |
| 17 | Confest her of no mortal Race : |
| 18 | He looked round the drawing-room , at the pictures and looking-glasses and ornaments shrouded in black , at Alexandra herself in the first mourning dress she had ever had . |
| 19 | Indeed this is the heart of Hilton 's argument for the validity of mixed life for the aspiring contemplative , for he says that this very desire , the burning coal which has to be thus nourished by a positive attitude to the demands of both active and contemplative life , is in fact God himself at the very ground of our being . |
| 20 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 21 | South of Barrowgate Road there existed a few houses fronting Sutton Court Road ; some Almshouses on the southern side of Sutton Lane , with the fish pond behind them ; Sutton Court itself at the bottom end of Sutton Court Road , where Sutton Lane turned south — that part of Sutton Lane later became Fauconberg Road — with the Lawn Tennis Grounds on the southern side and Chiswick Park Farm occupying the whole area of land to the east of Sutton Court Road , and the continuing Sutton Lane — which later formed the southern part of Sutton Court Road — curving round to meet the bottom end of Burlington Lane , on the southern boundary of Chiswick House Gardens . |
| 22 | The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling 's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway . |
| 23 | More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness . |
| 24 | She was never told by the London office or by Mary herself of the important part that Miss Read had played in the Tiller story . |
| 25 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 26 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 27 | Allied troops now punched deep into Kuwait and on into Iraq itself in a multi-pronged attack . |
| 28 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 29 | The request for release from monstrous tyranny is made by Eirena herself to the Faerie Queene , whose champion Artegall is . |
| 30 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |