Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the structure of water the basic components or molecules exist in a free flowing state loosely bound together by forces of mutual attraction . |
| 2 | Or crackle open under a blue-black pressure . |
| 3 | As the last extracts indicate , schools and teaching exist in a social framework . |
| 4 | The attempt by the power behind his throne , Warwick — now duke of Northumberland — to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure ; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor , then in her late thirties , married to Philip of Spain , and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII , Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration . |
| 5 | Cattle and sheep move at a leisurely pace over the earthworks that mark where men once lived and worked . |
| 6 | Texts and objects combine in a new installation by Marlene McCarthy at Metro Pictures until 27 March and new paintings featuring over-sized calligraphic texts figure in Linda Daniel 's new work at Jose Freire Fine Arts , until 21 March . |
| 7 | Another variant is the shorthold tenancy , created by the Housing Act 1980 , whereby the lessor and lessee agree to a fixed-term letting of a period not less than one and not more than five years certain , carrying with it automatic security of tenure for the period agreed . |
| 8 | The whole station was like some vast and awkward school dance , where need and constraint mingle in a heady , violent ferment of suppression . |
| 9 | Guarded by a collective representation in which theft and violence reside in a dangerous class , morally elevated by its correctional quest , the state achieves the legitimacy of its pacific intention and the acceptance of legality — even when it goes to war and massively perpetuates activities it has allegedly banned from the world . |
| 10 | A figure whose authority and weight crumble into a desperate poignancy before his wife 's obsessive importunities . |
| 11 | Higher up the size scale , larger structural elements also present similarities so that likeness and analogy operate as a focal principle at all levels whether we are aware of it or not . |
| 12 | The difficulty lies principally in that , whereas most scientists and engineers operate in a three-dimensional world capable of reasonable representation on a television screen , the multivariate nature of data analysis goes far beyond this into a space of m dimensions conceivable to the human mind only as an abstraction . |
| 13 | For example , perceptual predicates that can be procedurally defined include the following spatial descriptions : x is higher than y ; the distance from x toy is zero ; x is in front of the moving object y ; y is between x and z ; x has boundary y ; x is convex ; x is changing shape ; x has the exterior surface y ; x is included spatially in y ; x , y , and z lie in a straight line ; x travels along the path p . |
| 14 | The immediate family and carers go through a chronic grief process alongside the need to go on caring for and sustaining a person who is slipping away , cognitively , behaviourally and emotionally . |
| 15 | Data on consolidated government revenues and expenditures come from a different source , and are differently classified . |
| 16 | ROBERT Crawford 's quintet for clarinet and strings , which received its premiere at Strathclyde University with the Edinburgh Quartet and clarinettist Douglas Mitchell , seemed a pleasant piece , appealing in that it explores the musical possibilities of letters from Crawford 's name , and satisfying in that clarinet and strings blend in a mellifluous combination . |
| 17 | In Devon , Bailey and Catherine live in a rambling fourteenth-century farmhouse . |
| 18 | When the Netherlands is the seat of war , all the peasants grow rich , for they pay no rent when the enemy is in the country , and provisions sell at a high rate . ’ |
| 19 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 20 | Those whose gifts and tastes lie in a certain direction — people who do not have a head for mathematics — may well have been influenced by this in an early career choice . |
| 21 | The various recommended taxes and rates contribute towards a total revenue budget for 1993-94 of £241 million , 1.2 per cent more than 1991-92 . |
| 22 | Four machines dispense a wide range of drinks and snacks and staff choose from a ready prepared selection of main and side dishes . |
| 23 | A caricature of this exercise is that the tutor and student agree on a suitable project at a school which has been selected on the basis of its willingness to be disturbed by the student . |
| 24 | The audience , sparse and sad , do not call for an encore , but Mo and McNamara embark upon a lonely farewell tune just the same . |
| 25 | PETER 'S FRIENDS : Kenneth Branagh and chums meet for a crisis-ridden yuletide . |
| 26 | and bishops move on a tipsy tangent , |
| 27 | Professor Laura , writing in the latest edition of Nature and Health , said bacteria , fungi , amoebae , worms and mites grow in a brown slime found in contaminated air-conditioning plants and are circulated and inhaled . |
| 28 | Thomas and Sally meet on a drenched A1 as he is trying to hitch northwards . |
| 29 | The latest published figures on the origins of TB infection in confirmed herd breakdowns in Great Britain show that south-west England has a much higher incidence of breakdowns and badgers account for a high proportion of them . |
| 30 | The photographs are also persuasive evocations of the divided Berlin of the present , where East and West meet beside a floodlit No Man 's Land . |