Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE story goes that many centuries ago some fishermen in the South China Sea were driven north by a typhoon , but were fortunate enough to find themselves in a splendid natural harbour protected by a large island . |
| 2 | Prizes were presented by Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter whose association with the Dundee and Edinburgh Football Clubs goes back many years . |
| 3 | On the other hand , this could come from the Jenny Pitman-trained Garrison Savannah , the 1981 winner having worked ‘ brilliantly ’ on the Manton gallops earlier this week . |
| 4 | Moreover , if the retailer has too much stock of perishable goods , items may deteriorate or pass their ‘ sell by ’ date before they are sold . |
| 5 | erm Yet the distinction is one on which Proust repeatedly insists , at least for critical purposes , and elsewhere I think he puts the same idea quite succinctly , when he says and I quote , ‘ The man who inhabits the same body as a great genius has very little contact with him . ’ |
| 6 | Transport into central London from here is relatively straightforward : you can either take the East London Tube line from Surrey Docks station ( five minutes ' walk away ) or take the river bus from the pier right outside the marina when the route reopens later this season . |
| 7 | In this model , the male has as much interest in forming a stable family unit as the female and gets just as broody . |
| 8 | It follows that each element of Q[x] has infinitely many associates . |
| 9 | Rehospitalization as a single outcome measure has too many problems to be used in isolation from other measures . |
| 10 | At the end of May Dorothy could write to her brother Richard that ‘ William has now some poems in the Bristol press ’ ; and by mid-September , just as Coleridge and Wordsworth were preparing to leave for Germany , the Lyrical Ballads were at last ready to be offered to an indifferent public . |
| 11 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 12 | The front bit has n't much blood in it , but the two side bits when they fill up with blood and they start to stretch , it 's like blowing up a balloon . |
| 13 | Similarly , it may be highly risky if the product or brand contains only those benefits and costs selected on a subjective basis by the supplier , without reference to the marketplace itself . |
| 14 | Among transition metal hydrides the mass of the metal atom has rather little effect ; frequencies are in the range 2200–1700 cm -1 , the precise value depending on the metal and the other ligands involved . |
| 15 | As my PC has exactly this configuration , what does this mean to the uninitiated ? |
| 16 | Meat-eating causes so many problems . ’ |
| 17 | No one else in the tragedies has as many soliloquies as Iago does ( not even Hamlet ) . |
| 18 | Yet most tend to agree with the right-wing slogan , ‘ the boat is full ’ , meaning Germany has too many foreigners . |
| 19 | Coyle signs up another Scot |
| 20 | A pianist plays here several nights a week and from 15 June to 15 September a discotheque is held weekly near the swimming pool . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman 's hon. and learned Friend has as much right to express his views as the hon. Gentleman had . |
| 22 | Now the horse has yet another owner and will run against Arazi in the Kentucky Derby for an American whose birthday coincides with his country 's greatest race . |
| 23 | He will find that in both Bath and Lancashire the electorate has as little faith in Labour 's policies as he has . |
| 24 | Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year 's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time . |
| 25 | mild contains yet another type of sugar called lactose , which itself is composed of two single units of sugar : glucose and galactose . |
| 26 | Bonanza has too many friends who 'd be interested to see him . |
| 27 | Red light glows moodily all way down M4 . |
| 28 | Jean has n't much time — and I think I might do it quite well . ’ |
| 29 | Thus Moore 's methodology points inevitably to his main ethical conclusion , which is that nothing , or at least very little , is to any great degree good except for cases of personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects and that everything in life which does not come under these heads has barely any value apart from whatever it may have as a means of promoting these great goods . |
| 30 | ‘ Bidding for the feasibility study starts later this year and I am confident that we have a great chance . ’ |