Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 2 | In line with the preference for heuristic pedagogies associated with RBL and a child-centred progressive ideology , all the proposals concerned themselves with information-handling skills of one sort or another . |
| 3 | In both of the novels a heroine is involved for committing herself to do something important enough only as itself for example , Elizabeth Bennet walks three fatiguing miles to Netherfield to pay a visit to her ill sister ; Fanny Price opposes her cousins ' attempts to include her in amateur theatricals . |
| 4 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 5 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
| 6 | Her lack of caution led the trackers to sting her with rubber bullets , and since the summer , she has been much more shy . |
| 7 | Suddenly , as his hands closed over her breasts , she realised that the black lace jacket of her suit was somehow unbuttoned and he was tugging down the lacy bra cups , whispering hotly against her naked throat , and as his head moved lower and his mouth closed hotly over her erect nipples she twisted beneath him , moaning , clutching his dark head as she felt his teeth graze her with agonising pleasure . |
| 8 | Musicians knock 'em for six |
| 9 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 10 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 11 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 13 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
| 14 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 15 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 16 | However , high interest rates in 1989 and 1990 brought about a sharp reduction in sales , and some of those who had already bought their houses found themselves in financial difficulty . |
| 17 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 18 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 19 | Dulwich inevitably suffers from its geographical situation four miles south of central London , and currently lacks any surplus funds to promote itself through increased advertising . |
| 20 | ‘ The city is too easily stereotyped as a bleak and industrial wasteland full of flat-capped frustrated poets and musos consoling themselves with endless amounts of ale . |
| 21 | A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point . |
| 22 | Driving or walking around the sculpture will be like turning a model in space — the apparent contradictions transforming themselves into new realities . |
| 23 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 24 | The eyes lanced hers with swift rage and her pulses raced . |
| 25 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 26 | He dropped Mr Hambro where he was , in the edge of the water , and planted a foot between his shoulders to drive him in deeper before he made off . ’ |
| 27 | And yet he took no steps to reintroduce it in later editions . |
| 28 | Petal DK , a long established yarn in 100g balls with a lustre effect has four new designs to support it for 1992 . |
| 29 | Journalists treated her with such awe and respect that she soon thrived on interviews , developed her eccentricities and refined the mythical aspect of the success . |
| 30 | High-speed lifts land you on manicured pistes after well-disciplined and good-tempered queueing : ‘ After you . |