Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career . |
| 2 | Tufnell bowls , quickly , flatter , and that whistles through outside the off stump , ooh , groans and shouts of disappointment all around the wicket there , echoed by Victor Marks , yeah , yeah in the box . |
| 3 | If the whole group has to make its decision through verbal discussion it is often better to first present the issue or problem to small groups , then ask each to report back to the whole group . |
| 4 | The crowd of 7,000 — Aberdeen 's lowest of the season — had little to enthuse over in a drab second half in which Aberdeen had several excellent chances but displayed their old failing of not converting demonstrable outfield superiority into goals . |
| 5 | And that goes back to the early days of silage . |
| 6 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
| 7 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 8 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 9 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 10 | We 've been frozen out there , and that order was worth a couple of million sterling , and that adds up to a hefty pile of wage packets . |
| 11 | Any clinical examination required will be similar to that carried out by the ordinary GP . |
| 12 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
| 13 | In the UK the most familiar redistributive budget study is that carried out by the Central Statistical Office and published as Economic Trends . |
| 14 | Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual . |
| 15 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 16 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 17 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 18 | These reveal that TSP concentrations have halved since the 1960s. with the downward trend showing some levelling off during the 1980s ( figure 8.7 ) . |
| 19 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 20 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 21 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 22 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 23 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 24 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 25 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 26 | They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera . |
| 27 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 28 | Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s . |
| 29 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 30 | Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts , some dating back to the tenth century . |