Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |
| 2 | The figures which I have given , I hope , add up to a total for new accommodation of seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds . |
| 3 | Look back to the Fifties in filmstar-style frames from Christian Dior . |
| 4 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 5 | As Liz Hannam reports , the RSPCA devote up to a third of their time to dealing with farmers and their animals , in the society 's ceaseless crusade against cruelty . |
| 6 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 7 | The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world . |
| 8 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 9 | Better to look at the written key word , get your practice partner to repeat the descriptive sentences ( which will then be easy ) and go on to the next on the list . |
| 10 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 11 | We shoot down into the rapid as if fired out of a cannon . |
| 12 | F/O Nicholls-Palmer 's shoot down of a Ju-88 in August 1943 is recreated atmospherically by M A Kinnear and is the subject of a very low print run ( 100 only ) entitled Brief Encounter from Artistic Flight . |
| 13 | The thumb da , da , yes , but , if you 're in it 's a cord of G , you 'll put a two on the B , final note , and then go up to a five on a G , not a one , it 's better to do that , see if you can try . |
| 14 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 15 | Their careers together go back to the 1960s with Alex Welsh with a later spell with with Humphrey Lyttelton and they obviously relished the chance to play together again . |
| 16 | For the time being , we move on to the second of our theoretical perspectives , the ethogenic approach . |
| 17 | Having introduced us to the widely ranging Cichlasoma family , and given ideas of how to keep them , our three cichlid experts , JEFF CHALLANDS , MARTIN CHANDLER AND PHIL ROBINSON move on to the nitty-gritty of tanks and equipment . |
| 18 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 19 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 20 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 21 | Growing usually at a height of between I –0 to I 60 metres the vineyards curve round from an eastern to south-eastern aspect , and climb on to higher ground towards the edge of the Bois de Cormont . |
| 22 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 23 | ‘ It is entirely up to you whether you can gradually raise yourself to the highest position of eminence ever achieved by a musician … whether you choose to leave this world having been ensnared by a skirt , forced to lie on straw and shut up with an attic-full of starving children , or whether , after a Christian life , you go full of satisfaction , honour and glory , your family well provided for , and your name revered by all . ’ |
| 24 | Shop and office workers who miss out on the best of the day only have their lunch breaks to enjoy the brief British summer . |
| 25 | A moment comes , which comes but rarely in history , when we step out from the old to the new , when an age ends , and when the soul of a nation , long oppressed , finds utterance . |
| 26 | sing along with the best of them . |
| 27 | Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder . |