Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 2 | Crash girl back from the dead |
| 3 | It was late ; the clock in Magdalen Tower had struck three in the morning before Lewis let Tolkien out by the little postern on Magdalen Bridge . |
| 4 | There is also the implication in the model that , if you successfully prevent entry up till the mature stage of the life-cycle , you will then , subject to the price elasticity of demand , be able to increase prices in the way illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 5 | It allows a relatively modern driving position with straighter arms than the slightly foreshortened and big-wheeled Healey , but the stubby gear lever and handbrake lever down on the central tunnel are very similar car to car . |
| 6 | In most species there are at least three distinct classes of ganglion cells in the retina that conduct information through to the visual cortex in physiologically distinguishable streams . |
| 7 | Push tool down into the second stitch — the first stitch will slip behind the latch and you can ‘ crochet ’ the second stitch through the first . |
| 8 | First , transfer payments actually give money out to the poor . |
| 9 | Both main living rooms face south on to the well-tended garden which has two follies one now a stable for daughter Sonia 's horse , Woody . |
| 10 | Treat exposed soil with weedkiller , then tip sand on to the prepared foundation , and rake smooth |
| 11 | These are clubs which get money out of the public purse in the form of rates relief . ’ |
| 12 | Thus ( 54 ) , with an adjective which can occur predicatively ( but not in the prenominal attributive position ) , is quite acceptable ; but ( 55 ) , containing galore which is excluded from ordinary predicative position , is not : ( 54 ) the observers reported Her Majesty ( to be ) asleep ( 55 ) the observers reported the whisky ( to be ) galore We may further note that there are certain inherently restrictive adjectives ( including superlatives and , under certain conditions , ordinals ) which imply selection out of a known set , and which appear to occur ( unlike most adjectives ) in ordinary predicative position accompanied by the definite article : ( 56 ) ( a ) your slice is the largest ( b ) your slice is the small ( See Chapter 7 ; and Ferris , in preparation . ) |
| 13 | It is absolutely imperative that we get inflation down to the lowest level and keep it there , for most of our future prospects depend on that being the case . |
| 14 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 15 | He 's also just chaired a Select Committee on MPs ' working hours , which frequently collide head on with the following day . |