Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In due course he calls witnesses — eye witnesses , police , inspectors from the AIB and others — to substantiate his account . |
2 | In due course I left Varndean and went to do business studies at Sussex University . |
3 | This is in Pauntley and is an impressive , large , half-timbered building which underwent restoration in the early 1930s . |
4 | Eliot drew attention to the view that cars , gramophones , and central heating are inessential to civilization , but pointed to a more subtle fallacy which equated art with civilization and so saw ‘ Alaskan or Solomon Island wood carvers were more ‘ civilized ’ than the workmen and workwomen who turn out the bibelots of Woolworth 's . ’ |
5 | As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes . |
6 | First , however , we turn to a view of economic change which pre-dates Bell 's analysis and which underpins most accounts of the break from an industrial to a post-industrial economy . |
7 | This course offers students the opportunity to study design within a progressive framework which allows concepts and ideas to be tested through informed discourse and practice . |
8 | Could my right hon. Friend find time today to think again about the significance of an historic referendum which took place in the Ukraine on 1 December , in which the people of Ukraine freely and democratically voted for their sovereignty and independence ? |
9 | Changes requiring Project Committee approval include any substantial changes in technical direction which have implications for the allocation of resources or for time and cost required for the completion of the Project . |
10 | You can repeat scenarios which you have previously described but please make sure that in each case you describe things strictly in the context of the preceding five seconds of film ’ . |
11 | When we returned to our gentrified cow-flop that afternoon everything seemed tawdry , vulgar and second-rate . |
12 | That afternoon we watched television , which was full of the anglers ’ strike at Lough Corrib . |
13 | Like the exiled Scots sitting up in bed with his cap on in Sidney Royal Infirmary , asked by the retired sister who visited people like him who had no friends how old he was , he says ninety two . |
14 | Q : In that case I imagine people will flee Darcy 's Utopia in droves . |
15 | In that case I found questions raised which go to two major issues . |
16 | After the death last year of Steve Ross , the controversial mogul who merged Time and Warner in 1989 , Mr Levin laboured day and night to seal the deal . |
17 | The gravity of Jupiter crushes its hydrogen so much that pressures of this magnitude might occur at the centre of the planet , forming metallic hydrogen which undergoes fusion thereby generating heat within it . |
18 | until that hour we parted company . |
19 | We agree that the specific algorithm we used wold have been inappropriate if we were interested in examining seasonal or short-term changes in primary production , not because the algorithm does not include a grazing term but because it does not include terms for irradiance and quantum efficiency . |
20 | Scarborough .. 3 Chelsea ...... 2 ( Scarborough win 4-3 on agg ) NOT SINCE Charles Laughton has Scarborough produced better theatre than the thunderous denouement which barged Chelsea off the Littlewoods Cup stage at Seamer Road last night . |
21 | Still waiting for his first goal since his £500,000 summer move from Rangers , Rideout has been unfavourably compared with the Scots striker who left Goodison for Oldham last year . |
22 | They used the language of murder about the slave trade and Fox proclaimed himself an enthusiast for ‘ that zeal and warmth which arose from a sense of justice and was that kind which made men act with energy in a noble cause ’ . |
23 | And the optical type it contains this photoelectric cell which triggers alarm when the beam is disturbed by smoke particles . |
24 | Looking at the event dispassionately , I realise that I was probably chosen because the film had to be ‘ in the can ’ ( a technical term we film people use for ‘ finished ’ ) by the end of February . |
25 | When you first introduce a technical term which needs explanation , either explain it immediately or indicate that you will explain it shortly . |
26 | And bit by bit their lovemaking turned into a dry ritual which caused Rita no actual pain , only a lingering , grey regret . |
27 | ELSIE CLOUGHTON , 74-year-old musician who plays piano and piano accordion at events throughout Darlington . |
28 | There is , even in those societies which have established democratic institutions in the form of competing parties , free elections and a more or less independent ( though not necessarily impartial ) judiciary , a persistent discouragement of any political action which takes place outside the traditional framework of party politics and electoral contests . |
29 | We were all expected to work hard and at the end of each term we had examinations . |
30 | The few references to their own practices by members of code-switching communities which are contained in the literature are vague and general : for example , the now-famous quotation ( complete with slip of the tongue ) from a Spanish-English bilingual which gave Poplack 's important 1981 article its title : " Sometimes I start a sentence in Spanish y termino en Español " ( Sometimes I start a sentence in Spanish and finish in Spanish ) . |