Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One of the reasons I like this club , sir , ’ I said , ‘ is all these extraordinary old Anglo-Saxon names that one rarely comes across any more . |
| 2 | As Wimpol becomes increasingly international in technology and operations I intend that interchange of personnel of all disciplines will increase between the regional bases of USA , UK and Singapore . |
| 3 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 4 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 5 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 6 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 7 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 8 | Looking at the other titles I infer that mine is the only lecture on literature , and logically , perhaps , my title should be ‘ Literature as communication ’ . |
| 9 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 10 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 11 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 12 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
| 13 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 14 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 15 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 16 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 17 | ‘ Joe knows that when I do n't train with the lads I do extra training on my own . |
| 18 | Those were the last human voices I heard all day . |
| 19 | Will he take particular note of the excellent report on reading by the Select Committee on Education , Science and Arts which established that reading standards have certainly not fallen and that teachers of reading should be congratulated on the excellent job that they do ? |
| 20 | Yet this America gave the world hip hop : arts which brag that ghetto values can equal their middle class opposites ; music which takes pride in the language of the marginal . |
| 21 | There are also characteristics which show specific disadvantage to women . |
| 22 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 23 | Many of these are mentioned in chapter 8 ( p. 173 ) but a particularly important viewpoint offered by Strahler in 1956 , provided fundamental guidelines which acknowledged earlier work by engineers , hydrologists , soil scientists and geologists and proceeded to formulate an improved understanding of fluvially produced landscapes . |
| 24 | Most telling of all are the three ‘ drug ’ songs which sign this selection off . |
| 25 | organizes the games to be built and with a team of three — and — is responsible for the amazing new constructions which appear each year . |
| 26 | Look at an O.S. map ( 1 : 50 000 scale ) and try to find one or two grid squares which show each type of landscape . |
| 27 | Usually , the " L " shapes carry a simple guilloche decoration , although at Box this is replaced by residual panels ( if this is how the three small squares which connect each octagon are best described ) containing various geometrical devices , and at North Hill the " L " shapes also carry a stencilled " L " shaped line . |
| 28 | Remarkably , compounds which showed particular promise as drugs became routinely discussed by number alone , although everyone knew the chemistry behind them . |
| 29 | Every day , wrote one social investigator , the ‘ old methods which require manual skill and long practice are being superseded by the progress of mechanical invention . |
| 30 | I look forward to tackling the Party membership system , I wanted to make some of the sound admin system and modern communication methods which allow this Union to send each new member a new membership card , were introduced to Walworth Road . |