Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
2 | Unlike Article 35 , which deals with third party States and third party organisations together , Article 36 separates the two . |
3 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
4 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
5 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
6 | Dundee City Art Gallery , Dundee University , Edinburgh University 's Talbot Rice Gallery , Kirkcaldy Museum and the Lillie Art Gallery , Milngavie , have lent notable paintings to this exhibition which runs until next weekend . |
7 | Dayflower , who goes for next week 's May Hill Stakes at Doncaster , was impressive on the gallops yesterday and the step up to a mile is expected to suit her admirably . |
8 | The world champion , who trails in fifth place in the driver 's championship with only four points , incurred the wrath on Sunday of German newcomer Michael Schumacher , who finished third behind the two Williams drivers for the second successive race . |
9 | We are also pleased to welcome two new Word Processor Operators to the ACDP Unit : , who has worked with the Council for some time , first of all in General Office Services and latterly in the Assessment Department ; and , who comes with first hand knowledge of Advanced Courses , having recently completed an HNC in Secretarial Studies at Motherwell College . |
10 | Whoever benefits from Third World loans , it is the poor who pay the price … |
11 | Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . |
12 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
13 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
14 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
15 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
16 | But even this is not as extensive as it appears at first sight for , in conducting an investigation on a complaint , the Tribunal must apply ‘ the principles applicable by a court on an application for judicial review ’ . |
17 | Apprenticeship training is essentially about ensuring standards of workmanship and characteristically it appears at first sight to take an unconscionably long time . |
18 | It appears from last week 's letter that secretary Ernie McCormick and manager Frankie Parks did appeal on Joe Kerr 's behalf and we appreciate their efforts . |
19 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
20 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
21 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
22 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
23 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
24 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
25 | However , although it seems at first sight that prospects for prevention associated with life events are bleak , there are nevertheless a number of realistic possibilities , and it is important to go through these . |
26 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
27 | Copiously furnished with crammed bookcases , shelves stacked with cassettes and 19th century lithographs tastefully dispersed across the walls , it seems at first glance to be a richly cultured environment . |
28 | It reads at first sight like a selfless Magna Carta for the wild — until you begin to glimpse ( as in that ancient charter ) the barons ' hidden agenda . |
29 | It dates from mid-twelfth century and is nearly 50 feet high , built in six stages . |
30 | England will no doubt pay the price when it comes to next year 's World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield . |