Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | True the £24,500 was never paid , bar the £1,800-odd , but , despite the receipt clause , Mr. Steed would have been entitled to sue for the outstanding sum . |
| 32 | Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ? |
| 33 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 34 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 35 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 36 | And throughout it all the music , first heard as an eerie sketch inside the hero 's head , skeletally indistinct and bone china fragile . |
| 37 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
| 38 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 39 | An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault . |
| 40 | Quasi-science will remain as a perpetual epiphenomenon . |
| 41 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 42 | Whether Highland should remain as a single-tier region or be divided into smaller units is likely to be one of the most difficult decisions Mr Lang faces as he reaches an advanced stage of drawing up his plans for local government reform . |
| 43 | We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them . |
| 44 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 45 | Mm , I 'm sure you 'll find something in Marks and Spencers , I have heard about a new trick mum , how to con money out of Marks and Spencers |
| 46 | Otis had heard about a special policy being offered by The Legal Protection Group , which you can add on to your motor insurance policy . |
| 47 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 48 | He had obviously heard about the strange fish from the two boys at the pub , and anything concerning the river was Herbie 's concern . |
| 49 | HAVE you heard about the dyslexic devil worshipper ? |
| 50 | Erm we 've heard about the measured approach , the step by step approach er and Mr , has said , please make your mind up one way or another so we can proceed with our local plan preparation . |
| 51 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 52 | Perhaps she has n't heard about the little delay in the proceedings , caused by the contretemps with ben Issachar , and the stint in the tree . |
| 53 | She had heard about the little boy Grégoire — Jean-Paul 's son , so people said . |
| 54 | My question to Mr which he might like to comment on in his his summing up , is we 've heard about the forthcoming meeting which you 're going to arrange with the district council 's , how soon would you be able to make progress ? |
| 55 | In the last couple of weeks we have heard about the tragic death of Sergeant Alan King and Detective Constable Jim Morrison and we have seen the terrible injuries inflicted on their colleagues . |
| 56 | ‘ Have you heard about the intended evacuation ? ’ |
| 57 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 58 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 59 | They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) . |
| 60 | Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) . |