Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Burt Rutan is characteristically coy about his involvement , pointing out that many projects undertaken by his Scaled Composites company are ‘ proprietary ’ and adding : ‘ I ca n't even confirm that he ( Togo ) is a customer . ’ |
| 32 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 33 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 34 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 35 | Scotland 's tackling at the weekend was akin to a holding operation ; not surprising really as only rarely in the domestic sevens circuit do you see the shuddering finality which the Samoans , Fijians and Canadians bring to their defensive chopping . |
| 36 | Leila stood , stunned , her fingers pressed to her lips . |
| 37 | So with Amyas 's long , damp fingers pressed against her eyes , Jennifer was led stumbling into the passage , and on the way up to the house Sir Gregory tried to think how he was going to pacify his wife , who had never been able to forgive him for his infidelity and who had always resented the presence of his bastard 's daughter under her roof when she came to hear Mass . |
| 38 | Unseeing , she stared at the perfection of the exotic plant , hugging her sides in unconscious apprehension , her fingers pressed against her ribs . |
| 39 | Farmer Colin points out that this selfless operation is always carried out with a complete lack of regard for personal safety and reminds the committee that Josh has several times fallen off his load just outside the King 's Head . |
| 40 | The long occupation of northern France by the Lancastrian kings could never have been carried out without the active participation of men , many of them not yet noble , performing the tasks of their captains who , as noblemen with lands in England , had to return every so often to their estates to see to their upkeep . |
| 41 | At the same time he gave alms with his own hand to the poor from a basket of coins placed by his side . |
| 42 | MAFF is to allow scientists proposed by consumer groups to sit on its Advisory Committee on Pesticides . |
| 43 | The remainder ( see Table 1 ) were divided into four groups depending on their quality : ( 1 ) two long observations ( 60,000s ) with f.r.m.s.8% , where f.r.m.s. is the fractional root mean square amplitude of variability seen ; ( 2 ) a long observation with low f.r.m.s.5% ; ( 3 ) three short observations ( 35,000s ) with high f.r.m.s ; ( 4 ) two short observations with low f.r.m.s . |
| 44 | For the historian , then , the problem becomes one of discovering the contours of Victorian sexual mores without surrendering to facile generalisations , for despite a plethora of studies we are still woefully ignorant of general trends in the development of sexual attitudes , of their effects on individual lives , and of the particular meanings given to their activities by the sexual subjects in all their variety — by class , by gender , by generation and by region . |
| 45 | ‘ Norton residents do n't want these environmentally damaging pylons erected near their homes and I shall support them in their campaign to oppose them , ’ she said . |
| 46 | The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit . |
| 47 | In 1896 he moved to London , with financial backing from his father and influential contacts arranged by his mother . |
| 48 | Willie pulled off the weighted shoes and stood in the dark hallway shivering helplessly , his teeth rattling inside his clamped jaw . |
| 49 | WHEN walking across the upland fells of Britain , it is not uncommon to find the whitened jawbone of a long-dead sheep , teeth rattling in its sockets . |
| 50 | These are things that we can measure ; we can make measurements of the welfare of an animal ; the term ‘ welfare ’ refers to its state , and its state in particular in respect of its attempts to cope with its environment . |
| 51 | Now when you have unpleasant subjective feelings there will often be an effect on your state , as regards your attempts to cope with your environment . |
| 52 | One of the basic factors we have to bear in mind about fungi is that , unlike insects , which make their attack at certain predictable times depending on their life cycles , fungal attack in one form or another is about and ready to take advantage of any weakness for much longer periods — in fact , at almost any time of the year . |
| 53 | The dive planning screen is a look-ahead facility showing a selection of depths and no-stop times depending on your current decompression status . |
| 54 | The nun stopped , jumped , and gave a small cry , her fingers fluttering to her mouth . |
| 55 | The fairies giggle at their antics as they do at those of Bottom and their Queen . |
| 56 | Impossibly arrogant and handsome , teeth flashing beneath his ebony moustache , so much copied by the young Argentine bloods , black curls flowing from under a very unIrish tartan hat , Juan 's long thighs gripped a bay mare who was so glossy he could have checked his reflection in her quarters . |
| 57 | He grinned , white teeth flashing in his tanned face . |
| 58 | It was dragging him towards it through the stair-rails , its claws fastened in his flesh . |
| 59 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 60 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |