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 | When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was shocked to think he had fallen asleep over the table . |
| 9 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 10 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 11 | Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is fully tax relievable in the employer 's hands so the liability nets down to £3,393 for the employer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 17 | A man with skin like an old passion fruit lay asleep under a butterwood tree , a machete in his loosed grip . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He lifted his head and gazed unseeing towards the ceiling while his aide read a translation of his remarks from a sheet of paper . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Be patient and remain strong in the knowledge that the universe knows what 's best for you . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was a dull , snowy night , with heavy grey clouds hanging low in the sky , the kind of night when hopes are destroyed and love is lost . |
| 24 | Attachment may be the result of friction , locking soil into irregularities in the surface or electrostatic attraction where soil and surface have opposite charges , or from chemical interaction between soil and surface made possible by a change of state of both at the interface . |
| 25 | THE MOTHER of a five-week-old girl was critically ill but improving last night after undergoing a liver transplant made possible by a television appeal . |
| 26 | Intimate music-making by amateurs must have been practised much earlier , but never on the scale made possible by the invention of printing . |
| 27 | The biblical story is thought to reflect the then recent development of caravan routes , made possible by the domestication of the camel at the end of the first millennium BC . |
| 28 | For the present , I would prefer to reformulate Popper 's position on observation statements in a less subjective way , thus : An observation statement is acceptable , tentatively , at a particular stage in the development of a science , if it is able to withstand all the tests made possible by the state of development of the science in question at that stage . |
| 29 | The Thirties scene shows the complete segregation of the tram track , made possible by the Promenade widening of 1905 , with a traditional double-deck Standard and a modern railcoach of the period . |
| 30 | Addressing a rarely convened joint session of the Federal Legislature , made possible by the ending of a two-month opposition boycott in protest against the alleged intimidation of Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) members in Sind , Sharif said that the proposed legislation would consist of two bills , one to amend the Constitution and the other to make the Koran and Sunna ( the practices of the prophet Mohammad ) supreme law . |