Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 2 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 3 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 4 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 5 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 6 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 7 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 8 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 9 | Nobody cares about a few thousand Masai . |
| 10 | English has about the same lix level as the Nordic languages and this enabled Bjornsson to compare Scandinavian newspapers with those from English-speaking countries . |
| 11 | For the school library , through books , films , recordings , and other materials , goes beyond the requirements of the instructional program , and unfolds for the many private quests of children and young people the imagination of mankind . |
| 12 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 13 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 14 | In this study , this was achieved by examining the estimated kilometre square populations together with those which were reported for the same areal units in the 1971 Census of Population . |
| 15 | Potential problems regarding the treaty 's formal implementation , which surfaced after the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Byelarus said that they were unable immediately to ratify the accord , were circumvented by an extraordinary conference in Vienna at which representatives from 29 signatory nations approved " provisional application " of the treaty pending its ratification by Armenia and Byelarus . |
| 16 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 17 | The Governor 's sanctum was a leviathan suffused with the same dreary red light . |
| 18 | Widow Mary Todd , 64 , met Bill Raisbeck six months ago when she moved into the same sheltered housing scheme at Thornaby , Cleveland . |
| 19 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 20 | The wood was added to the aquarium and a few strategically placed plastic plants were added with a few well-rounded , safe , large pebbles . |
| 21 | In principle , too , it should be possible to design an artificial organism organised along the same basic principles that produce consciousness in living things . |
| 22 | The links that have developed in networking with the many voluntary groups that operate in the areas and the recognition of the individuals right to self-esteem and to develop an expertise in relation to living and functioning in their many roles , has changed my way of working with people — probably forever . |
| 23 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
| 24 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 25 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 26 | When animals do not fall into a few simple categories , quantitative genetic techniques become more practical . |
| 27 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 28 | Because the patient is trying to communicate in the fewest possible words , and a sentence missing its function words is easier to understand than a sentence missing its content words . |
| 29 | ROLLINS BAND : ‘ Tearing ’ lifted from the former Black Flag leader 's ‘ End Of Silence ’ LP , backed with ‘ Earache In My Eye ’ recorded live in Sydney , Australia in 1990 |
| 30 | What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure . |