Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 2 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 3 | Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake . |
| 4 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 5 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 6 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 7 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 8 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 9 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 10 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 11 | Many Third World states regarded it as a blatantly unbalanced proposal since it did not include an offer by Soviet leaders to close down their military and naval facilities in South Yemen and Ethiopia . |
| 12 | e.g : Spider notes Yet another method of making notes involves you in a " brain storming " exercise in which you allow your memory to recall any information you can associate with a particular topic or question . |
| 13 | Maybe one of the powerful merchants regarded it as an eyesore . |
| 14 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 15 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 16 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 17 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 18 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 19 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 20 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 21 | GREAT Portland Estates boss Richard Peskin is warning shareholders to brace themselves for a dividend cut next year . |
| 22 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 23 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 24 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 25 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 26 | Among their recommendations are : the need for regular reports on implementation of the Fifth Action Programme on the environment ; the rapid establishment of the European Environment Agency ; and early ratification of the Climate Change Convention agreed at UNCED , with the development of national strategies to implement it by the end of 1993 . |
| 27 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 28 | Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers . |
| 29 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 30 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |