Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Service to shy and withdrawn youngsters may involve the art of leaving them alone , and of having the patience to wait until confidence and trust has been earned . |
| 2 | Nitrogen dioxide , a reddish-brown and highly reactive gas , is mainly produced in the atmosphere from the oxidation of nitric oxide formed when fuel is burned at high temperatures . |
| 3 | Outline planning application procedures provide both vendors and prospective purchasers with the opportunity to establish whether permission to develop land will be granted , without incurring the cost of preparing detailed plans . |
| 4 | He will reject what a conventionalist accepts as law only in special cases , when a statute is old and out-of-date , for example , or when a line of precedent is widely regarded as unfair or inefficient , and it is difficult to see what of value is then lost . |
| 5 | Apollinaris survived for only a few months , and on his death Theuderic had Quintianus installed as bishop , apparently on the grounds that the saint had been driven from Rodez because of his loyalty to the Frankish king . |
| 6 | Traffic misery … chaos expected when bridge is rebuilt |
| 7 | Baby had gum drops though Mamma has none . |
| 8 | EC commission sources said that Sir Leon Brittan , competition commissioner , would be looking at the deal to see if Air France was breaking EC rules , in so tightening its grip on short-haul air services within mainland Europe . |
| 9 | Leading members of the British Ex-Services Wheelchair Sports Association travelled as VIP guests in a ceremony hosted jointly by the railway and Tywyn branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 10 | Although prejudice lessened as time went on , there would always be those who resented these foreigners and their strange ways , and who would be ready to point a finger . |
| 11 | Sections from five patients that were found to show inappropriate expression of blood group antigens in liver and colon were treated with neuraminidase using established protocols in an attempt to see whether digestion of sialic acid residues would abolish staining . |
| 12 | We looked at variations in perceptions across the electorate to see whether television , the press , or both had any influence . |
| 13 | Open the air vent with a radiator key to see if air or gas is forced out . |
| 14 | Last month he was accused of vote catching when Education Secretary Kenneth Clarke cleared the way for expansion in Darlington by ‘ changing the rules ’ to allow popular schools to expand . |
| 15 | But if interference effects do indeed operate at retrieval rather than on the formation of the CS-US association , it should be possible to show that an apparently weak association formed after conditioning with a pre-exposed stimulus can be revealed as being perfectly strong in appropriate conditions of testing . |
| 16 | There are analogous risks with long positions ; those with net holdings of stock lose when bond prices fall . |
| 17 | Some , such as Italy and Spain , are seeing their industry devastated as inflation raises costs and erodes competitiveness . |
| 18 | But the deal collapsed when City looked at their bank account . |
| 19 | In 1977 the music industry gaped when Prince received $1m to make three albums for Warner Brothers . |
| 20 | Warehouse robbed as family held hostage |
| 21 | Traction alopecia is caused by tightly pulled pony-tails , braids and chignons ; friction alopecia occurs when hair bands , wigs or hats are too tight and the hair breaks off . |
| 22 | Gerard Ford , for the council , said the decision last June to seek repossession came because rent arrears of £1,298.25 had built up and Pemberton was allegedly guilty of ‘ conduct of nuisance and annoyance to neighbours ’ . |
| 23 | Pre-completion search made by every buyer , etc , will reveal any entry made since office copy was issued . |
| 24 | Because entropy relates to the distribution of energy the principle was introduced that the most probable condition exists when energy in a river system is distributed as uniformly as possible according to the physical constraints . |
| 25 | The tragedy happened when petrol was being decanted by Mr Whitley and his neighbour . |
| 26 | The snow thickened as night fell , piling around their shelter and hissing at the fire . |
| 27 | In discussing the effect produced when event X precedes the CS-US pairing of a conditioning trial , Revusky lays emphasis on the interference that results from the formation of an X-US association ; but it might also be allowed that the formation on an X-CS association plays a role . |
| 28 | Methane increases as agriculture spreads and intensifies . |
| 29 | They do however perhaps highlight the problems associated with nomination , and direct the surveyor 's mind to consider whether nomination is really necessary . |
| 30 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |