Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 I suppose she 's thinking of Terry , she thought , and squeezed Sarah 's arm , although Believe Me If All had been Joe 's favourite rather than Terry 's .
2 When Gandhi maintains that by means of prayer he invokes the divinity within himself it is evident that he draws no hard-and-fast distinction between the Self or Ātman within and God or Truth .
3 Come testing time , though , it was a different story altogether as Farr-Jones 's side put on an awesome second-half display in the rain and mud at Newlands .
4 The abolition of examinations , shortening the length of courses and open criticism of teachers and academic knowledge , among other features of the Cultural Revolution period , led to disruption and chaos rather than Mao 's goal of an egalitarian higher education system .
5 GEC Marconi , which employs 3,500 people in Simon Burns ' Chelmsford constituency , signs contracts with the Ministry of Defence rather than Swan Hunter .
6 You may in fact find that you do pay some tax in the UK If you have dividends or receive bank or building society interest on which tax has been paid , tax will have beed deducted at source , and this will enable you to sign a Certificate so that ACET can obtain the advantages of the Gift Aid scheme .
7 On June 30 Russian President Boris Yeltsin had made remarks suggesting that negotiations over the disputed islands could make progress only if Japan provided economic aid to Russia .
8 Henry said almost apologetically , ‘ I think we could do you a bit better than Cranmer .
9 After two pints , he felt a bit better and Ted arrived .
10 Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed .
11 Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides .
12 Paddy would have seen the trail better than I. He often rode ‘ shot-gun ’ on the roof-rack .
13 We were in the kitchen together when Caroline said I should meet Colin . ’
14 If the Germans had not come to short-change the paying public , the play of Duncan Ferguson , in particular , also shaped up to be worth the admission money alone before Scotland fell behind .
15 The commercialization of peasant agriculture had been fostering such differentiation long before Stolypin threw his weight behind it , yet it had done nothing to temper the ferocity of the peasants ' attack upon the nobility in 1905 .
16 It was advice Erika took seriously , distancing herself from Fritz as much as possible and adroitly using Rosa as a shield so that Fritz was forever baulked in his obscure desires .
17 Ca n't we just back it along a bit so that Andrew can you know
18 The Russians even sacrificed a few of their less important informers in the West so that Blake could claim further success .
19 A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars .
20 Suddenly she switched on a yellow lamp that stood by her on the table and moved the snake-like stem so that Larry 's face was spotlighted as if on stage .
21 The case , however , moved to trial only after Mr Garcia himself proposed the use of military courts against guerrilla suspects , because of their alleged greater efficiency .
22 There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being .
23 Just south of it was the Jeanetta Cochrane theatre , where Haynes was working with , amongst others , Charles Marovitz , another exiled American , but , in his case , from New York 's lower east side rather than Louisiana .
24 It was a little dark after the strong sunlight , but it was cool , and she sank to her seat thankfully as Felipe stayed at the bar .
25 The command which will stop a LIFESPAN Process is exactly the same as the startup command , except that you use LSSTOP rather than LSSTRT .
26 In most cases the processing power required is that of an AT type machine with a Hercules or EGA graphics card so until Amstrad come out with the next generation machine this aspect of desktop publishing will have to wait .
27 They drank tea together and Müller went over the report with him .
28 He and Stefan had worked out a performance programme so that Ingrid would n't have to sing two big roles on consecutive nights .
29 I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately .
30 Too weak to resist , the young hidalgo lay quite passive , showing emotion only when Pascoe , on discovering a bronze agnus dei on a chain , wrenched it off and flung it overboard .
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