Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 2 | Beside her Rune looked what he was , she thought — purposeful and determined , master of his own destiny , the skin of his golden jaw so smooth that he must have shaved again before coming to pick her up , his hair gleaming in molten strands as the sunlight played on it . |
| 3 | Details of EC support received by overseas farmers and information regarding the prices paid and received for their various commodities . |
| 4 | What the trust offered was the opportunity to invest in interest-bearing mortgages . |
| 5 | On the contrary , many of the cultures and their interrelationships are deeply marked by relations of discrimination and subordination stemming from structural inequalities . |
| 6 | The British Isles became , in 1941–43 , a giant aircraft-carrier punished by German raids but giving more than was received as the air war was intensified by 1943 . |
| 7 | Similarly , the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities . |
| 8 | This , it was argued , amounted to ‘ service abroad ’ ; any other view would infringe the right of other Contracting States to object to certain modes of service , such as Germany 's objection to the use of registered mail ; would circumvent the translation requirements existing under the Convention ; and would deprive defendants of the guarantees in Articles 15 and 16 . |
| 9 | I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps . |
| 10 | Erm now the th H S C is saying that erm it should n't have gone skin to skin and they 've stopped skin to skin in other headings . |
| 11 | Near to this was a small pool designated by our guide as Lod an Suidhe [ Pool of the Sitting ] where the guga hunters sit on surrounding rocks to wash their feet after the day 's toil . |
| 12 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 13 | Activity with tools may be undertaken by the whole class as a supervised group , or may be later activities undertaken by small groups of their own volition , and the circumstances under which this latter is to take place must be carefully organized in advance . |
| 14 | This does not mean , however , that one should invest in that declining industry beyond the level justified by short-run returns . |
| 15 | The Commission was attempting by these measures to reduce the past bias towards spending on large infrastructure projects favoured by national governments . |
| 16 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 17 | There is nostalgia , and fantasy — both wonderfully caught in Blake Morrison 's evocative ‘ Turf Moor , and Other Fields of Dreams ’ — and there is fiction filled with four-letter words . |
| 18 | Maggie stared at John 's bare back , his creamy white skin punctuated by large freckles both fascinated and repelled her . |
| 19 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 20 | — Manjiku 's got a snout like a crocodile , Manjiku 's got pointed green teeth arranged in double rows , and a mane of spikes like sea urchins , and a forked tail with razor edges he uses to slice up his food . |
| 21 | Secondly , the provision of better educational material for teaching naming to young children . |
| 22 | Male differs from other harriers in its largely brown plumage , grey only on wings and tail ; nearer to female in size than other harriers . |
| 23 | If , as Marxism postulates , the final catastrophe of Capitalism is to be triggered by a crisis of under-utilisation of capacity and of over-supply of goods , then the General Theory provides the remedy : a positive investment policy by the State and deficit financing in certain circumstances . |
| 24 | But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as : |
| 25 | But it turns out that snails parasitized by certain kinds of fluke ( flatworm ) have extra-thick shells . |
| 26 | She presents us with a glistening floor bordered by a number of bells hanging from long ropes , each lit from above to produce its own pool of light . |
| 27 | All these cases , and similar cases heard in other jurisdictions , were reviewed in the landmark case Caparo Industries plc v Dickman ( 1990 ) 2 AC 605 HL which has caused so much controversy . |
| 28 | The opportunity to maintain their freedom of referral was one of the commonest reasons given by general practitioners for joining the fundholding scheme . |
| 29 | We also use the survey to examine the significance of small establishments as employers of temporary workers and the regional distribution of temporary employment , to give the personal characteristics of temporary workers — concentrating on their sex , age and marital status — and to discuss some of the reasons given by temporary workers for working on this basis . |
| 30 | Moreover , at moments of crisis — notably in 1881 , 1903 , and October 1905 — the authorities connived at vicious pogroms against them . |