Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 2 | In a serialised version of the book under a headline : ‘ Venables never made Spurs his top priority ’ , Scholar alleged : ‘ Tottenham , alas , never seemed to get his full attention . ’ |
| 3 | The easy atmosphere and lively evenings make Paxos our recommended dinghy holiday for those who enjoy a really active social life ; it 's ideal for people by themselves . |
| 4 | Announcing his new Cabinet on Nov. 5 , Miyazawa made Watanabe his Foreign Minister , and gave posts to members of the Mitsuzuka faction , although not to Mitsuzuka himself . |
| 5 | Technology and passion unite to promote values which most clubgoers would cross the universe to avoid . |
| 6 | Even allowing Finnis his large claim that private property is a general requirement of justice , it must be evident that a remarkably wide range of possible determinations present themselves to the legislator . |
| 7 | That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all . |
| 8 | After the war Birkenhead made biography his main occupation despite a major set-back . |
| 9 | The LOB corpus employs ditto tags to indicate words whose syntactic roles differ from the role of the same words in other contexts . |
| 10 | Send Andy your own compilation tapes including , if you wish , selected tracks by Country Joe And The Fish , Edwin Starr , Billy Bragg , Elvis Costello , John Lennon , Soho , The Farm , Robert Wyatt , Metallica and our Lisa . |
| 11 | So , the appeal to visitors from Texas or Tokyo is ‘ send Stratford your old lamp posts to complete the set ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Like to come wiv me next week ? ’ offered Rose , the bus slowly bringing them nearer home with each plodding step . |
| 13 | Lydersen again had a hand in Arsenal 's second goal in the 46th minute when his long clearance found Campbell whose awesome power took him into the box to beat Norwich 's former Tottenham goalkeeper Walton at the near post . |
| 14 | ‘ As in ‘ this programme contains scenes which some viewers may find distressing or objectionable ’ . ’ |
| 15 | I forgive lepidopterists their sharp-eyed zeal . |
| 16 | This is essential to prepare our children for an ever-changing world and to retrain employees whose traditional role within a company will change with the advent of computers in general and micros in particular . |
| 17 | ‘ Contains language which some viewers may find offensive ’ says the announcer . |
| 18 | Before his release from Reading gaol , Wilde appointed Ross his literary executor ; but with Wilde 's estate bankrupt , it was not until 1905 that Ross was able to pay Wilde 's creditors and annul the bankruptcy . |
| 19 | Farmers will be compelled to preserve hedgerows which local authorities believe to be of landscape , conservation or historical value . |
| 20 | Some , like the women 's TA course , are dressing fur their end-of-course party , while others are preparing to do battle during their night patrol exercise . |
| 21 | And if the appeal does n't give Swindon its million pounds , it 'll leave a bitter taste when they have to defend against Hoddle 's playing skills in the Premier League next season . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , these abolitionists were arguing that fear was supposed to induce reason and humanity and provoke policies which squared reform with stability and both with the interest of the nation . |
| 23 | Woolton told Churchill his supervisory role had largely ceased to function . |
| 24 | A huge and seemingly ever-growing number of accountants , solicitors and estate agents have made Shrewsbury their professional base . |
| 25 | Spurs boss Doug Livermore said : ‘ Ian is struggling to be fit for Saturday , so that will give Erik his big chance . ’ |
| 26 | Emily did not show Ellen her new ring ; the glove covered it . |
| 27 | Having made Kuwait his 19th province and sworn never to leave it , he needs ringing international declarations on Palestine , not just hints and mumbles , to blot out the shame of retreat . |
| 28 | MaliVai Washington is just one of the slowly growing group of black athletes who have made tennis their preferred option , even above baseball and basketball . |
| 29 | Changing the temperature alters the relative proportions of the conformers ; the vibrational spectra therefore show bands whose relative intensities vary with temperature , as shown in Fig. 5.46 . |
| 30 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |