Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 2 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |
| 3 | Preston thought about this and came to no satisfactory conclusion . |
| 4 | To ignore this and focus on the false antithesis of punctuation versus gradualism , with no mechanism to explain either , is to engage in a scholastic war of words largely devoid of scientific content . |
| 5 | The final hymn had eight verses , not to speak of a chorus of Hallelujahs at the end of each one ; Mr Frizzell enjoyed this and sang in a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 6 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 7 | Do not open this and drive at the same time . |
| 8 | Some of these children , if they were given this attention over a two year period , could overcome this and go into the secondary school able to cope and take their place alongside the other children , and this is desperately important . |
| 9 | Ooh I 'll carry on watching this and go for a bloody shower ! |
| 10 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 11 | It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging . |
| 12 | Just work on this and forget about the restrictive diet side of the equation . |
| 13 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 14 | Go through this and continue on the good track into the woodland , passing a ‘ crossroads ’ with a wall and gate on the right . |
| 15 | It is important to make access an integral part of land management agreements wherever possible , but the landowner must be the one to decide on this and enter into a voluntary agreement to provide access . |
| 16 | BHC cut the machine in half and put in a central section to carry more cars and passengers . |
| 17 | Two tomatoes cut in half and sprinkled with a little castor sugar . |
| 18 | She had studied , worked , travelled some and blossomed into an attractive , intelligent , perhaps slightly too conventional , young woman . |
| 19 | You start with one vowel , go on to another and end with the third . |
| 20 | The great advantage of this approach is that it gets away from picking out odd texts from the bible to ‘ prove ’ one thing or another and asks after the underlying message . |
| 21 | On that day , various poptastic things happened all over the world , all to convince you that AIDS is a terrible thing , that safe sex does n't mean no sex and that we must all love one another and usher in a new era of positivity etc etc . |
| 22 | For example Adrian Thatcher ( 1991 ) takes issue with the emphasis on private individualism which talk of " inwardness " tends to convey , seeing this as based on a radical distinction between what is objective and what is subjective — a distinction which , though very influential since the seventeenth century , is now regarded as mistaken . |
| 23 | We are probably wrong , however , to see this as happening on a large scale or as a particularly significant development in many areas . |
| 24 | It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level . |
| 25 | Must remember this when tempted into the local hen shop. ) 9 pm Ben Frow arrives to try on costumes for Re:Joyce . |
| 26 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 27 | The World Bank has too many people costing too much and working in the wrong place . |
| 28 | He did not seem to know how to play , would not settle down , ran about too much and fought with the other children . |
| 29 | In 1966 , the Court ruled that a publication which is not obscene might be regarded as such if distributed in a lascivious manner , and in 1968 , that the law 's jurisdiction did not ‘ reach into the privacy of one 's home … [ whereas ] public distribution … might intrude upon the sensibilities or privacy of the general public … ’ . |
| 30 | Israel did not want Sinai as such but insisted on the military security of its southern borders . |