Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov met the accusing eyes squarely , then he shrugged . |
| 2 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 3 | He slipped out of the pony harness , withdrew the slim plastic tube and emptied the sticky gerbils back into their cage . |
| 4 | The tape was cut by Ray and Debra Mason , petrol station section manager , allowing the first customers in to take advantage of the low priced JS petrol . |
| 5 | When the task is completed the female approaches again for the process to be repeated . |
| 6 | We do not appear to have received the signed documents back from you yet . |
| 7 | Those clients who received regular reviews fared better than those who were left to bear the responsibility of contacting the relevant services when the situation , in their opinion , so required . |
| 8 | Table 5.1 records the significant events chronologically . |
| 9 | The treatment meted out was degrading and she had hated the middle classes ever after . |
| 10 | Ironically , Cadillac also started building the same engines soon after Leland started Lincoln . |
| 11 | Athena , seven-year-old daughter of the late Christina Onassis , inherits the fabulous riches when she reaches 18 . |
| 12 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |
| 13 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |
| 14 | Figure 9.3 and Table 9.3 display the main facilities currently available and show clearly the decline in relative importance of the credit tranches , especially after 1980 . |
| 15 | They were supposedly going out to hit the high spots together , leaving me to throw some things into a bag and drive down to the cottage . |
| 16 | We may note that , for both the matrices A and B , unc we may therefore construct the canonical forms directly from unc We now revert to ( 10 ) ; if for convenience we denote the columns of X by unc respectively , then as we have said above , only x1 and x3 are eigenvectors ; they make unc and unc vanish , and are each unique to a scalar multiplier . |
| 17 | Turn work again and repeat the two rows continuously . |
| 18 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 19 | She made the pre-canoe instructions absolutely hilarious , not to mention informative . |
| 20 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 21 | It resembles the pictures of dancers frozen for all time by the potters who made the Greek vases just to display their feats . |
| 22 | The old elements were essentially the same , but the refinements made the weekly shows not just entertaining , but addictive , compulsive listening . |
| 23 | For today 's kites have one unique quality which made the old ones so tiresome to fly . |
| 24 | During the determined drive against Dissent in the first half of the 1680s , government directives were issued to judges , magistrates , constables and churchwardens requiring them to enforce the penal laws strictly . |
| 25 | Paint the edge of just one half of the shape with a little melted chocolate and bring the two halves together . |
| 26 | In this section we bring the basic rules together . |
| 27 | bring the same things up . |
| 28 | Such a change is likely to affect the smaller businesses rather than the large companies . |
| 29 | IBM is also working with Apple on Bento , Apple 's format for identifying and interchanging objects , and is looking at using the two developments together . |
| 30 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |