Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing to paddle , the fishermen are extended by their reflections and appear to be walking on the water on wavering stilts , their long paddles a second leg . |
| 2 | A refinement of this is ‘ record revue ’ , which automatically replays the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning the camcorder to record-mode . |
| 3 | At the same time it set up the Seiji Togo Memorial Museum , which now occupies the forty-second floor of the spectacular headquarters tower in Tokyo , and houses pictures by Chagall , Gauguin , Picasso , Renoir and Grandma Moses . |
| 4 | It seems illogical to require response to a treaty which adversely effects a third State , as in the instance of a territorial settlement when the third State also has a claim , and yet to regard lack of protest to an evolving principle of customary international law as acquiescence to it . |
| 5 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the speaking order can be : leading counsel for the appellant ; both counsel for the respondent ; junior counsel for the appellant ( who thus has the last word ) . |
| 7 | But like most families while father appears to be the boss more often than not it 's mother who usually has the last word . |
| 8 | That fetched the two from West , the queen from dummy and the ace from East , who then leads a second spade — the nine . |
| 9 | A search of the records having a given attribute , to see which of them also has a second , third , … etc. in the required list , will eliminate all the records that are not wanted . |
| 10 | And Maastricht promises to make the Europe-machine turn still faster because it pre-emptively convokes the next set of constitutional talks for 1996 . |
| 11 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |
| 12 | It normally takes the first ten minutes of any brisk walk to get into a rhythm and feel aerobic , so increasing the time from 20 to 30 minutes is effectively doubling the aerobic benefits . |
| 13 | While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell . |
| 14 | But it still has the second highest unemployment rate in Britain and the highest in England , so the economy and the creation of new jobs are critical to voters . |
| 15 | He still remembers the first record he bought — Frank Philips narrating Peter and the Wolf on Ace of Clubs with Britten 's Young Person 's Guide ( LPO/Concertgebouw/van Beinum ) . |
| 16 | Unless the Madeiran is addressing a close friend or member of his family , he always uses the third person in speech . |
| 17 | He does not mind being the butt of his colleagues ' jokes because he always has the last laugh . |
| 18 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |
| 19 | It also needs a second additive to help it dissolve and raises the vapour pressure of petrol , which can cause havoc with a car 's Fuel pumping system . |
| 20 | No he probably means the twentieth . |
| 21 | ‘ What exactly does the Twenty-fourth Imam do ? ’ he said . |