Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Secondly , investors from outside the Community , from places such as Japan , the United States and many others , look at the European Community and decide that the United Kingdom is by far the best place in which to invest due to the stability , skills and reliability of our work force . |
2 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
3 | When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up . |
4 | For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas . |
5 | Group B is tight with Crusaders and Distillery level on four points each at the top ; Crues are away to Coleraine while the Whites visit Omagh knowing defeat will let in the Tyrone men . |
6 | Scott had heard little of the Judge 's summing up or , indeed , of his comments after the life sentence had been passed . |
7 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
8 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
9 | Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel . |
10 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
11 | He was shocked to think he had fallen asleep over the table . |
12 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
13 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
14 | Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi . |
15 | One moment she was sobbing her heart out , then , lulled by the bearlike warmth of his chest and the comforting shelter of his great arms and shoulders , she had fallen asleep like a child . |
16 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
17 | times six X because normally bring that to the front . |
18 | This is fully tax relievable in the employer 's hands so the liability nets down to £3,393 for the employer . |
19 | Using 1980 as the base year , sulphur dioxide reduction aims are as follows : 20 per cent by 1993 , 40 per cent by 1998 and 60 per cent by 2003 . |
20 | In 1983 , in an effort to get the ball rolling on realistic cuts , the Scandinavian countries proposed a 30 per cent reduction in sulphur emissions by 1993 , using 1980 as the baseline year . |
21 | The implementation of privatization legislation was delayed due to a decision on Nov. 6 by the Czech Minister for Privatization , Tomas Jezek , who said that too little time had been allowed for compiling the list of companies suitable for privatization . |
22 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
23 | A man with skin like an old passion fruit lay asleep under a butterwood tree , a machete in his loosed grip . |
24 | Both results are , of course , consistent with the competitive nature of commercial activity and can not , it is submitted , realistically be avoided if a measure of justice is to be accorded to the inventor whose endeavours remain unused by the employer . |
25 | He lifted his head and gazed unseeing towards the ceiling while his aide read a translation of his remarks from a sheet of paper . |
26 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
27 | Be patient and remain strong in the knowledge that the universe knows what 's best for you . |
28 | By superimposing on these techniques an ideology and a practice of self-expression , Cream 's music seems to establish a dialectical relationship between the two , articulating each via the other into a new position — a position , perhaps , of ‘ fraternal individualism ’ |
29 | In natural fibre-rich foods the taste-evoking substances appear to remain intact within the cell walls which have not been stripped away by refining processes . |
30 | Martin leaned forward , his face touching that of the angel 's , as he raised his arm to strike . |