Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the south level 37,000 acres went under water , and the chief engineer of the Great Ouse catchment board considered it the worst fen flood since the time of Vermuyden . |
| 2 | Last Friday night Sir Hector Monro , Scottish minister of agriculture , let it be known he was not happy about board proposals to transfer its every nut , bolt , fixture and fitting from statutory monopoly to voluntary co-op from April 1994 . |
| 3 | If they do n't contain a waterproof membrane such as Gore-Tex or Sympatex , you can obtain spray-on products to give them a water-repellent finish . |
| 4 | Charles 's boyhood sufferings taught him a patience far removed from defeatism , reinforcing Christianity 's message that to be humbled was the prelude to triumph . |
| 5 | Even at its simplest your intervention — supports the children in their role-play introduces the idea that you , the teacher , can play a role yourself creates the possibility of formalising their language creates the possibility of introducing some simple work in other curriculum areas ( e.g. counting ) encourages them to think beyond the immediate , maybe introducing simple notions of cause and effect narrative gives you the opportunity to introduce simple signals indicating when you are in and out of role , thereby accustoming them to this strategy for when you use it later in a whole group drama . |
| 6 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 7 | Since 1892 , we at Bob Martin have been developing , improving , refining and perfecting our Flea Treatments , Wormers and Condition Tablets to make them the best you can get your paws on . |
| 8 | She thinks that being a crime writer makes me a detective as well . |
| 9 | A shrewd aid programme does us a favour . |
| 10 | If she has a dry mouth condition offer her a wet feed with the bit in position to teach her to move it about better . |
| 11 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 12 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 13 | I mean you could use group investments , I mean what you did with the investment trusts gives him a better spread , |
| 14 | He was propped on one elbow beside her , the width of the picnic hamper giving her an illusion of safety from too close an intimacy . |
| 15 | Now we 've got a buyer for that one at home well two for pound help to buy you a bed . |
| 16 | If , they say , projects are not found acceptable purely on the basis of the tangible benefits , then it may be useful to turn around the investment question to ask what the present value of the benefits must be to justify the investment . |
| 17 | Each brush has a snazzy gold handle with a rubber neck grip to give you a firm hold as you style . |
| 18 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 19 | SHIPWRECK CARGOES have everything the antique collector could desire : romance , history , provenance , beauty — and buoyant prices . |
| 20 | For example , if we have strings of four 6-bit characters : Show how the above translate instruction could process this result string to make it a digit-by.digit sum to a non-binary base . |
| 21 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 22 | Most drawing packages offer you an alignment tool but it usually does n't solve the problem of spacing a set of objects evenly . |
| 23 | A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank , narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived . |
| 24 | I think its fairly unanimous that if any department needs improving its the defence . |
| 25 | The rich brown enamelled finish with brown glass splash back give it a distinctive style which certainly is n't ordinary . |
| 26 | But a snooker ball is n't twice as big , you know when a snooker ball hits something the other ball goes away quicker than the ball that 's hit it yeah ? |
| 27 | Another more immediate solution would be to combine an outing with others who live near you so that you could get into town on a bus and then share a taxi back ; or ask a car owner to give you a lift , in exchange for petrol money and perhaps some skill that you can offer . |
| 28 | These divisions within the labour movement made it a less influential force on the side of social reform than is often thought . |
| 29 | Only a very few civil servants within the recipient government understand what the project is really about . |
| 30 | The parallel-derived , series-inserted feedback with unity feedback fraction makes it a very valuable circuit that is much used as a buffer in electronics . |