Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car . |
| 2 | Saturday arrived but still no luggage . |
| 3 | ‘ We shall bury him , ’ said the Oak , and Moy saw that already the Tree Spirits were scrabbling at the earth , their roots scraping and shovelling , so that , quite soon , a deep trench was opened . |
| 4 | Isaiah wrote that whenever the Bible , as the Word of God , was proclaimed it would ‘ never return void ’ . |
| 5 | But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " . |
| 6 | Cameron wanted to give him a computer , but Alexia prevailed and soon the house was full of twangs and scales again . |
| 7 | Patterson found that only the problem child was permitted to be out of control in interaction with the parents , while all of the children were permitted to be out of control when interacting with each other . |
| 8 | IT WAS like reading the last page of a well-written romance story to see John McCarthy and Jill Morrell relaxed and together a year after the end of his ordeal with Arab terrorists . |
| 9 | LORD JUSTICE RALPH GIBSON said that neither the plaintiff nor the defendant applied to the court at any time before judgment for an order under Order 5 , rule 5(2) appointing the defendant to represent all or any of the members of the management committee . |
| 10 | Among ADAS 's five regions , the NAO discovered that only the south-west had a strategy for delivering public good advice on pollution , diversification and conservation . |
| 11 | Owen thought that rather a pity as she had seemed very competent , quite capable of sorting out both Yussuf and his wife . |
| 12 | Gordon left after just a year . |
| 13 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 14 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 15 | But a relative of Joanna insisted that neither the lure of the lire nor Five Bellies ' close friendship with Gazza had caused the break-up . |
| 16 | The process of canonization , which in early times had been very informal and by acclamation , became regulated under the Church 's supervision and Innocent stressed that only the pope had the authority to declare a saint , " for the confirmation of the Catholic faith and the confusion of heresy " , as he said . |
| 17 | Mandy hesitated and then a smile softened her face . |
| 18 | In the second edition Dewey announced that henceforth the structure of the scheme would not be fundamentally changed . |
| 19 | Consequently , Comte believed that both the necessity of government and its functions may be deduced from the principle of the division of labour . |
| 20 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 21 | When they reached Etaples and had pitched their tents for the night , Charlie decided that perhaps the gymnasium in Edinburgh had been luxury after all . |
| 22 | A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind . |