Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 2 | We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns . |
| 3 | Mr McGahon 's controversial proposal comes at a time when the British Government is under mounting pressure to radically review what many perceive as an outdated judicial system . |
| 4 | Handbill for the 1900 Olympic match |
| 5 | Earlier Land Rovers with the smaller wheel studs , were designed to carry most of the load on the large hole in the centre , so fitting Range Rover wheels , which carry the loading on the studs , is not on unless you change for the later SIII type hubs . |
| 6 | And if the murderer were an outsider , then how account for the locked front door , the intact alarm system , and the fact that Lorrimer must have let him in ? |
| 7 | Because neither business organizations nor the public regard the maximization of owners ’ profit as the only legitimate aim of business , distributable profit can no longer be regarded as the sole or premier indicator of performance . |
| 8 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 9 | The slow-moving five-foot lines are unexpected ; the dignified quatrains make for a cumbrous narrative style , which is alien in spirit to that of a medieval ballad . |
| 10 | Too often some of our Catholic families are not aware of the existence of our excellent senior schools which provide for a solid Catholic education and a growth in faith for our children . |
| 11 | This is the operations base for the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe . |
| 12 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 13 | SEND FOR THE FREE TITAN BROCHURE OF YOUR CHOICE |
| 14 | The Navigation Server , developed with the help of NCR Corp , extends the SQL Server to make large scale and multiple databases appear as a single virtual database . |
| 15 | ‘ During the whole of her illness , prayer was made without ceasing by the whole Church on her behalf , and I felt persuaded that the Lord would yet hear us and for His name 's sake appear as the one prayer-hearing God — for the heathen around knew what was done , and would say , ‘ Where is now your God ? '' ’ |
| 16 | ALWAYS known by his initials , J.P.M.Millar for more than 40 years ran the National Council of Labour Colleges ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour movement . |
| 17 | ALWAYS known by his initials , JPM Millar ran the National Council of Labour Colleges for over 40 years ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour Movement . |
| 18 | All but five of the players are from British Columbia which means they should be match hard and fit after a full domestic season . |
| 19 | Rees Connor won the boys race after an exciting finishing sprint against Sunderland 's Kieron Routledge , while Steven Jackson won by a five second margin in the colts event . |
| 20 | Inspired , Yeremi sprayed a stream of incandescent rainbow plasma gobbets at a defence laser which was tracking in that forbidden direction , and rejoiced to see its shield fail and the shark-snouted gun warp and drip like a lugubrious runny nose . |
| 21 | These reunite into a single large body of water just north of Altdorf , and from here the river takes on a different character . |
| 22 | A cutting is simply a length of stem top growth — with some plants it is a soft-tissue tip , with others a more mature hard-wood section — which , when inserted into soil or a suitable growing medium , and sometimes helped and encouraged by the presence of artificial hormones , will fight for life by producing roots , and so grow into a new individual plant . |
| 23 | You can take X-ray pictures of these crystalline atoms , like salt and the all because , they all fit into a nice little pattern , you know when we were sort of playing about with them as though they 've go t magnets on ? |
| 24 | Electric immersion heaters fit into a large screwed boss on the top or side of a hot water cylinder . |
| 25 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 26 | Sprinkle over the sugar and smooth the top , place under a preheated hot grill for 1–2 minutes until the sugar has caramelised . |
| 27 | I disagree with the right hon. Member for Guildford . |
| 28 | Waterlilies and other deep-water aquatics grow in the deeper central portion of the pool . |
| 29 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 30 | The kiss and branding also appear in a fifteenth-century Italian novella . |