Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The navigator plotter and bomb aimer would independently calculate the course to be flown and times to target and an agreement would be reached as to final course . |
| 2 | While the student is encouraged to keep a record of the activities undertaken and the progress achieved in the investigation , there is no requirement for a written report as a means of communicating the results . |
| 3 | Sara felt her heart thumping and the colour rising in her cheeks . |
| 4 | In 1858 the Poor Law Board relented and the Workhouse Visiting Society , with Twining as honorary secretary , was set up , affiliated to the NAPSS . |
| 5 | Pass through the village , and off to the right you will find a farmyard with chickens pecking , ducks waddling and a couple of horses grazing peacefully . |
| 6 | The minimum critical union size implied by the membership equation is sensitive to two of the underlying assumptions : attitudes to risk and the specification of union dues . |
| 7 | ‘ A fine night for a fight ! ’ the Hearthware leader said , his teeth flashing and the blood shining on his sword . |
| 8 | The market has now declined in importance , due to the inability of authorities to borrow and the unpopularity of the assets with investors uncertain about the future of local authority finance . |
| 9 | It would seem reasonable to assume from this , that the length of the chains in the sample must play a significant role in determining the resistance to flow and the effect of chain length on log η , measured at low shear rates to ensure Newtonian flow , is illustrated in figure 12.4 . |
| 10 | With ActionAid you know exactly where your money goes and the good it is doing . ’ |
| 11 | The friar had even made a vain plea to Cranston to have the sentence commuted but the coroner had sorrowfully shaken his head . |
| 12 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
| 13 | As abruptly as it had started , the storm stopped and the sun shone from a sky the colour of a Ceylon sapphire . |
| 14 | Er the second polygyny where you have one male and then females and here reproductive success erm meaning that there 's a large again you 'll have the males who 'll have the large reproductive success than males who have none at all and erm of course often differences between male and female because the male has and the male has opportunities to erm try to control success rate the female biological and er consequently with this kind of system from female choice and male competition and er are about eighty percent and er polygamy is when you have many males and many females and er is also and er I would assume it 's kind of like males have opportunities . |
| 15 | I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest . |
| 16 | The sight of a teetotal singer who 's pushed a broom , been a cinema usher and an employee for a cess pool firm , advertising hyper-expensive cognac is a bit off , really . |
| 17 | As the owl hooted and the night train called , Erika was already slipping into the state where the real world fades and the dreamworld begins , thinking of Fritz and that last , subtle touch of two hands . |
| 18 | If the letterhead was faked , surely , as he says , not only was the story fabricated but the application was fraudulent . |
| 19 | The early freshness , the attractive blondness , the amiable , even features can become anonymous as the hair thins and the face subsides into middle age . |
| 20 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 21 | There were two lawful ways to demolish the listed chapel — one was to have the building de-listed and the second was to obtain listed building consent for its total demolition which involved seeking representations from six conservation bodies . |
| 22 | About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five . |
| 23 | As the months passed and the court moved — and Anne and Joan with it — from Westminster to Greenwich , from Greenwich to Sheen and then back again to Westminster , and as Joan practised and adopted the ways of the nobility , the close resemblance between herself and Anne became more pronounced . |
| 24 | But as the months passed and the winter fogs thickened , Mr Punch discovered a new source of inspiration in the hoop-skirt , transforming it into an ingenious anti-garotte device whereby its flowing dimensions could prevent a street robber from approaching his intended victim . |
| 25 | The boat overturned and a sailor was drowned . |
| 26 | Through the six months of Alberta 's bitter winter each lady tried to outdo the other in the number of coffee parties given and the number of charitable offices each managed to obtain . |
| 27 | Against the hard , insistent pressure of Guy 's mouth , Isabel 's lips parted and a whimper of surrender sounded deep in her throat . |
| 28 | Police said the patrol car had its blue light flashing and a B-test on the driver proved negative . |
| 29 | The investment failed and the money vanished . |
| 30 | Now the screen has been moved back to its original position , a new loft formed and the balustrade reunited with the lower part . |