Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This seems to have helped for eventually the topic ceases to be discussed . |
| 2 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 3 | Presumably Keith had found the Regent not far away , for only the day following the great cavalry host appeared over the lip of Scremerston Brae once more , to descend to the Spittal . |
| 4 | Mr Bell said the system of having one ambulance on call at each of the county 's 11 stations after 7pm every night had been in operation for many years . |
| 5 | After only a day testing the new system , on and off road , around the Wiltshire countryside , floating like a butterfly is the only way I can describe the ride . |
| 6 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 7 | There was no details on the vouchers as to how much they are worth just a note saying that vouchers must be redeemed before 12 on the matchday . |
| 8 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 9 | Then he turned to Rachel and for just a moment allowed his gaze to meet hers . |
| 10 | As they speed towards a moving insect , the pitch of their cries is constantly changing , continuously hunting for just the pitch needed to keep the returning echoes at a fixed pitch . |
| 11 | My experience has been that entertainers who come for just the show have maximum impact and cause great excitement , especially if they arrive dressed up . |
| 12 | It 's a red panda cub , one of only a handful to have been born in captivity . |
| 13 | If capital markets are imperfect , they can cause shifts in supply , of exactly the sort described above , which magnify what may initially be relatively small shocks to economies . |
| 14 | While approaching the Firth of Forth the ship took on a lot of water during bad weather . |
| 15 | writes from : THE funerals of both a soldier blown up in Ulster and a young mother murdered on Wimbledon Common were marked by the same poem : |
| 16 | This comparison of procedures reveals that the CMI Rules ' receipt message plays the role of both a paper based dock or mate 's receipt and of a preliminary bill of lading . |
| 17 | Most authorities agree that it is possibly the most difficult of all the hovering manoeuvres , and it combines the difficulties of both the nose-in hover and the pirouette . |
| 18 | As well as providing a conventional means of mixing powders , it has a spear system which allows soluble bags to be disposed of without the operator having to handle them . |
| 19 | A number of rarer departures from Mendel 's laws were found , and in each case they were able to find a corresponding abnormality in the chromosomes , of precisely the kind required to explain the genetic findings . |
| 20 | Politicians , diplomats , aid workers and journalists of almost every nationality have all been dragged into the confusion and misery that are the aftermath of the Vietnam war and the American bombing of Cambodia . |
| 21 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 22 | Out of nowhere the idea came to her that Lionel Marcus might be watching . |
| 23 | She felt as if he was paying homage to their love , his every caress a thanksgiving , and for once the wildness left them alone so their loving was a thing of tenderness and healing , of joy and celebration . |
| 24 | The trial did not last long , for once the Judge decided that public performance in the theatre was in fact covered by the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 , and that Mrs Whitehouse was therefore able to bring a prosecution , the case was withdrawn . |
| 25 | Jansons masterfully keeps the music 's internal momentum alive without any sense of undue haste , and although the allegro bustles energetically along , Jansons resists the temptation to tear Shostakovich 's occasionally violent texturing to shreds For once the Finale appears as a crowning inevitability , rather than merely a throw-away moto-perpetuo of staccato virtuosity . |
| 26 | For once the work did n't soothe Hilary . |
| 27 | When for once the tide runs in the reverse direction we get a new view of our own cookery , and a revealing insight into the oddness of traditional names as they appear in another language . |
| 28 | For once the camera did lie , not about the beauty she was becoming but in camouflaging the vulnerable personality behind her effortless capacity to dazzle . |
| 29 | For once the kiosk had not been vandalised . |
| 30 | On the other hand there 's a part of me that rejoices , that is glad he paid the way he did , that for once the world worked the way it 's supposed to , punishing the wrongdoer … and that saddens and sickens me too , because I think that this must be the way Andy feels all the time . |