Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He goes for the older woman ! ’ |
| 2 | A ‘ Glagolitic ’ Seminary existed until 1820 in Priko , in the district of Poljica , which lies between the lower Cetina valley and the coast between Split and Omiš . |
| 3 | Hill now heads towards the faster European Grands Prix in France , Silverstone and Germany with confidence high , saying : ‘ I can get my teeth into those circuits . |
| 4 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 5 | Raymond Boyle , Eugenius ’ bassplayer looks like a harder version of Martin Gilks from The Wonder Stuff . |
| 6 | But it looks like a further sign of the Tories ’ concern that they 're drafting him in . ’ |
| 7 | It is impossible to tell which is earth and which is sky , though eastward what looks like a whiter than usual cloud must surely be snow on the fells of Furness . |
| 8 | Certainly , Cicciolina is a beautiful woman who looks like an older , sleazy Brooke Shields with straight , platinum-blond hair and a strange set of thick , auburn-tinted brows . |
| 9 | The ‘ higher order ’ unfolds into the lower or ‘ explicate ’ , meaning the known world of substance . |
| 10 | The researcher , unfortunately , has the same problems with testing this hypothesis , despite its greater precision , as he or she has with the grander ones . |
| 11 | The magic starts with a further Grundfos whose inlet rests on top of the gravel bed . |
| 12 | That glows with a brighter scarlet hue . |
| 13 | It too can no longer be presented in a teleological form as an account of a historical process which begins with primitive ‘ stateless ’ societies , then passes through a definite sequence of class societies in which the state comes into existence and develops , and concludes with a higher form of communal society which is again ‘ stateless ’ . |
| 14 | Either way , the best hope of predicting such events , and mitigating their impact , lies in a better understanding of the southern oscillation and its role in the circulation of the southern hemisphere . |
| 15 | The real power of computerised data lies in a deeper , more sophisticated analysis of the information which already exists . |
| 16 | Part of the explanation lies in the greater liquidity of the second-hand market for residential dwellings ; corporate assets are more difficult to resell because of difficulties in ascertaining quality . |
| 17 | Although I agree that Strachan has proved in the past he is a class player and that Leeds would be foolish to consider selling Rocastle , I believe that the future of the Leeds team lies in the younger midfield combination of Rocky , Macca , Speed and Fairclough . |
| 18 | This is something no ordinary parent could even begin to enforce and no judicial parent stands in a better position than a natural parent . |
| 19 | As for the question of how the game develops in the wider , European context , that , like domestic reconstruction , is something which stays outwith the control of club managers , ’ Smith said . |
| 20 | Sharon , Debbie 's friend , lives in a newer council house about half a mile away . |
| 21 | JUDY MOWATT , one third of Marley 's backing singers , The I-Threes , is not rich , asking a hundred US dollars for an interview , but she lives in the better part of Kingston . |
| 22 | The interdigestive cycle of motor activity , or migrating motor complex , starts from the lower oesophagus and migrates but ends in the terminal ileum . |
| 23 | There are other poems attacking the Friend in which the Poet writes from a closer perspective . |
| 24 | ( It is interesting to observe that perhaps the most influential art magazine in the West , ARTFORUM , New York , has in the later 1980s not only devoted special features and reviews to photography , but now runs regular columns on television , on news photography and on advertising ) . |
| 25 | As well as determining the information needed now and in the near future , some regard must be given to the difficult task of trying to foresee information needs in the longer term ( Land , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Subtly rounded corners give it that added touch of class , while the slimmer and lighter size adds to a smoother profile in your pocket . |
| 27 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |
| 28 | If you do set too high , you may find that the first syllable spoken after a pause is distorted , especially on p's and b's , after which the overall level of the recording drops to a lower value as the speaker continues ; during the next pause in speech , the background slowly returns to its original value until the speech resumes , whereupon it falls again . |
| 29 | For the low risk junctions , however , this result appears to be completely reversed , the high risk exemplars have a slightly lower number of hits than the less risky ones and considerably more false alarms , this corresponds to a higher P(A) for the least risky exemplars . |
| 30 | The fusion of the actual person of a son of the agricultural mother with the divine , pre-agricultural , primal mother-image corresponds to a further , structural description of mania by Freud : namely , one in which the ego and superego have fused together — in genetic terms , in which the parent and child are one . |