Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day . |
| 2 | From the evocative first ascent photo of Joe Brown and Wilf White in 1948 , which featured in the 1978 guide , through the Hard Rock treatment , the hundreds of ascents this route receives each year indicate its lasting popularity and quality . |
| 3 | But the story goes that money speaks , and some people , some parents , if they get hit in the pocket , will probably take more notice of their child , |
| 4 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 5 | No ghost haunts this apartment . |
| 6 | On Dec. 20 , after talks in Delhi with the central government , all the Cabinet ministers resigned to allow Abdullah to conduct another Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 7 | If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God . |
| 8 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 9 | This was not found to be the case , although the number of people in each profession was far too small for this finding to carry much weight . |
| 10 | At first sight the paradox that liberalism requires not only freedom of contract but also freedom to breach any contract is quickly resolved . |
| 11 | Pete Goss took a group up to the foredeck to demonstrate a spinnaker hoist , four were dispatched to the leeward rail to induce some heel and to those in the cockpit Nick commanded : ‘ Well , do n't just sit there , get tying knots . ’ |
| 12 | When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | ‘ Does the interview with the Admiral make any difference to anything ? ’ |
| 14 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 15 | But on the other hand , a soldier wants someone who he can talk to in complete confidence and I think the padre fulfils this sort of , if you like , avuncular , presence in the battalion . |
| 16 | BORIS Yeltsin chose the best word to describe the economic recovery plan which the Congress of People 's Deputies passed this week . |
| 17 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 18 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 19 | An injunction was granted in that case to enforce that duty ordering the owner to maintain a hoarding around a vacant piece of his land or find some other way to prevent trespassers from using and depositing filth and refuse there , which amongst other things , gave rise to foul odours . |
| 20 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 21 | Last October , Swiss bondholders agreed that interest on the bonds should be deferred with the bonds not being declared to be in default until 1 March . |
| 22 | Mr Nath said : ‘ The reason I became involved was I went to Romania to see another child , Bogdan , on whom I did an operation . |
| 23 | These grants equalled nearly a third of all EEC grants that year for uranium prospecting ( £416,000 ) . |
| 24 | The book explores these consequences by asking how industrial relations in state enterprises respond to economic crisis and to attempts of governments to formulate political programmes to combat that crisis . |
| 25 | All foundations suffer some degree of settlement , since the sub-soil itself is elastic or compressible . |
| 26 | If , deep within me , I have been persuaded by early upbringing that sex is evil — or if traumatic experience evokes that feeling — sexuality can never carry its true attraction or satisfaction . |
| 27 | Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy . |
| 28 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 29 | Although all sides denied that a deal was being done on Germany , there was no mistaking the willingness of the French and West Germans to accommodate each other 's political needs . |
| 30 | The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them . |