Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun prp] [vb -s] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly : the addition of a red jerboa or desert jumping mouse to the white-disc-in-red-square vehicle sign of the Mobile Division Egypt dates back to 1939/40 . |
| 2 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Kitty said in a carefully careless tone , ‘ There is something you ought to know before that busybody Condon gets on to you about it . ’ |
| 3 | At this point Shakespeare brings back the Duke , disguised as a Friar , who sets in motion a complex plot involving several substitutions : of Mariana for Isabella , in Angelo 's bed ; of the head of Ragozine , ‘ a most notorious pirate ’ , for Claudio 's ( IV.iii.69 ) . |
| 4 | As an example of this interconnection Althusser points out that among the relations of production of capitalist societies are the buying and selling of labour power by capitalists and workers . |
| 5 | ABOVE : Old man Roberts checks out the family album . |
| 6 | hoping to dominate … the world of athletics this weekend is Gloucester hammer thrower Lorraine Shaw … she 's UK champion … the first from the city 's club ever to win a senior outdoor title … this weekend Lorraine takes on the best in the world as she competes in the AAA championships in Birmingham … the amazing thing is that up until this year she was a discus thrower … |
| 7 | This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ . |
| 8 | Bionic boss Souness bounces back with title warning : You ai n't seen nothing yet |
| 9 | On an individual level Luke singles out the contribution of Charron ‘ outstanding in every way ’ , Lougheed ‘ the man of the match against North Harbour ’ , Knauer ‘ worked very hard , as always ’ , the front row group ‘ for their strong scrummaging ’ , along with captain Woods and vice-captain and hooker Mark Cardinal , a 1987 World Cup veteran , for excellent leadership in most demanding circumstances . |
| 10 | Moving with the easy gliding movement that is second nature Liessa sets off towards her own dragon , Laolith , who turns his great horsey head towards her . |
| 11 | It 's just a little game Tom puts on for visitors . |
| 12 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |
| 13 | She has her own home in Mossley Hill and her 20-year-old son Neil calls around to visit her regularly . |
| 14 | Thus in the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic , the distinctive genus Flabellothyris turns up along a belt parallel to the present equator ( for example , in Mexico , Morocco and India ) and not to the north or south . |
| 15 | One day Tony gets up to watch and witnesses one of the few times when the sun travels across a blue , cloudless sky . |
| 16 | Close ties with Performance Fabrics remain and apart from sharing the same site Tygavac buys in about 20 per cent of its products from the Courtaulds Aerospace company . |
| 17 | By common consent Murphy comes over as easy-going , but behind that there is a sharpness that even he admits does n't always make him the easiest person to work for . |
| 18 | The Russian village community belongs to the youngest type in this chain , ’ [ Hobsbawm , 142–3 ] , and in the same letter Marx goes on to refer to an ‘ all American author ’ as one of his authorities for such a statement . |
| 19 | Wide boy Gary chats up Sue but she does n't want to be called a slut . |
| 20 | Anfield new boy Stig jumps in to make timely debut |
| 21 | New bassist Alex pumps out twisted urban blues-core and , along with manic driving sticksman Joe , adds extra colour to Scissormen style . |
| 22 | This could well be the last winner Simpson sends out from Foxhill Stables at Wanborough , Swindon . |
| 23 | Lotus Development Corp has lured Cognos Inc president Jeffrey Papows over to its side to run its Notes Division as vice-president , a newly created post reporting to John Landry and June Rokoff who head the company 's development programme ; meanwhile Unix veteran Larry Crume , who had been running Lotus 's mobile computing interests , has been re-assigned to run the cc:Mail line . |
| 24 | Pakistan v India , third Test Shoaib cashes in . |
| 25 | The next morning Claire looks in on John . |