Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Divine intervention might also have allowed him two straightforward chances ; a top-edged hook off Ambrose when on 22 spiralled to long-leg where Walsh got both hands to it without holding onto it , and at 66 , two balls after the end of his 125- run second wicket partnership with Wessels , he edged Patrick Patterson and Williams made a hash of a regulation catch . |
| 2 | Concern was also expressed for the future of the British components industry if Ford showed less willingness to purchase British components than Austin Rover traditionally had done — thus any job losses could extend beyond the two firms engaged in the merger . |
| 3 | Other members argued that it was not the EC 's fault if Britain paid more money than others under the terms of membership , and there were bitter arguments before a temporary ( three year ) settlement of the issue was reached , at the Luxembourg summit of April 1980 , when Britain got some repayments . |
| 4 | It was a good place to find carrion because cars used that road occasionally and no doubt caught voles and such creatures in their wheels . |
| 5 | Defenders Pietro Vierchowod and Paolo Maldini also got on the scoresheet while Malta gained some meagre consolation when Carmel Busuttil converted a penalty . |
| 6 | A light prism gives a practical example of how the same object viewed from different standpoints gives different images : one person may see only white light while others see all the colours of the rainbow , yet both perceptions are true to reality and not figments of distorted imagination . |
| 7 | With phosphatidylethanolamine most of the cholesterol was shifted to the vesicular carrier while phosphatidylserine shifted most of the cholesterol to the non-vesicular carrier(s) . |
| 8 | Bull claims its strength is on the commercial side while IBM wins more of the technical deals . |
| 9 | Gestures , however , are much more diverse because of the number of different possibilities ; some merely reinforce verbal signals while others convey much more information . |
| 10 | The effect of eradication in this study was variable , however , as some patients exhibited appreciable rises in juice vitamin concentrations whereas others showed little change . |
| 11 | It needs to make up its mind whether Greece has some special purpose in the world , apart from survival , and if so how this purpose fits into the wider patterns of Europe . |
| 12 | I 'm excited about my future as God reveals more of his plan for my life . |
| 13 | Adenauer 's programme as Chancellor had several main elements . |
| 14 | I felt a moment of fear as Mortimer spoke these words . |
| 15 | Later , problems of the Arretine wares were brought to light when factories producing these wares well into the Claudian period were found in Central Gaul , and the terms ‘ provincial Arretine ’ or ‘ proto-South Gaulish ’ were invented . |
| 16 | Staff at the Kirkby factory have been working flat out to meet demand for their popular ice lollies as temperatures rose this weekend . |
| 17 | Influence is the process by which one person in an organisation , A , directs or modifies the behaviour or attitudes of another person , B. Influence can only be exerted by A on B if A has some kind of power from which the influence emanates . |
| 18 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 19 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |
| 20 | One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards . |
| 21 | Murray had a shot stopped on the line and substitute Gary Peebles , one of four Scots in Ronnie McFall 's Tartan Army rattled the bar before Strain applied that 72nd minute coup de grace and Fraser had a goal disallowed for offside . |
| 22 | Thus what social workers thought of as ‘ prevention ’ ( keeping children out of care ) was perceived by many parents as refusal to offer any positive support , and indeed refusal to give any help at all . |
| 23 | The singer 's life contained enough misbehaviour to make director Oliver Stone 's job easy ( pace that notorious gig in Miami when Jimbo bared more than his soul ) ; his songs are riddled with references to drugs and sex ; and — making the film a dead cert — he obligingly took an early bath in Paris in '71 . |
| 24 | I do not however think the engine when running has any wear problems to cause low oil pressure and have some vague thought that when a remote oil filter is fitted high up you have to remove the pressure release valve or do something or other . |
| 25 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |
| 26 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 27 | and number two marriage marriage as Lucy said that is what she saw on Neighbours yesterday |
| 28 | The two coaches were filled to capacity as pilgrims assured each other that Sunday would be true to its name , through many carried an umbrella ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 29 | China would continue to support the resistance until Vietnam withdrew all its forces from Cambodia . |
| 30 | Many radical feminists see little point in attempting to change the education system because women are trapped in a vicious circle in which men keep changing the rules if women show any sign of becoming as successful as them . |