Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With neutral Hampden Park ruled out due to renovation work , Rangers manager Walter Smith and Celtic No.2 Joe Jordan were involved in the bizarre situation of having to toss a coin to determine the semi-final venue . |
| 2 | He resisted and the assailant made off empty-handed on a large , blue and white Yamaha motorbike . |
| 3 | The attempt to slip out unnoticed at night fails , and all but one , including Barker , are killed by the Viet Cong . |
| 4 | The sword gone , a boat drew up full of women wearing black hoods including Morgan le Fay , Arthur 's half sister . |
| 5 | But Graham knows his dilemma lies up front with his side 's lack of goals . |
| 6 | And it is here , in the ‘ thinking ’ , we are told , that the programme falls down due to the ‘ lack of connection between reality and what you saw on the screen ( Charles Catchpole , News of the World , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 7 | I had n't even got the tape lined up ready to the next , the next one on . |
| 8 | This profitability is maintained by a balancing act ; the fundamental chemical industry balance summed up in the fact that if you want to get the utmost out of sodium chloride , you should n't have either sodium or chlorine left over unsold at the end of the day ; not much use increasing the use of one if you ca n't increase use of the other in proportion . |
| 9 | On 11 August , the Field Ambulance marched out complete from Stony Stratford to entrain at Wolverton for Reading , with the satisfaction of knowing that 98% of the men had volunteered for service abroad . |
| 10 | The experience came in useful for another role right — as a makeup girl . |
| 11 | The old queen stirred up Theuderic against his brother , whom she called the son of a gardener , and Theuderic defeated and killed Theudebert in 612 . |
| 12 | He tried to contact Sir George Porter , the President of the prestigious Royal Society of London , in the hope that he would be able to use his influence in the USA and have the conference called off due to its potential security implications , but Fleischmann was unable to reach him . |
| 13 | Drugs and hypnosis were all very well as tools for coping with the hormonal storms caused by the superhuman organs his body housed ; but what he must attain swiftly was a superhuman mind which could command the body to fight on irrespective of injury . |
| 14 | Mortgage lending down due to recession |
| 15 | Here it is important to distinguish between any reaction brought about due to the perception of the odour , and any reaction brought about by the odorant itself , or the presence of other substances which accompany the odorant . |
| 16 | It is rare for an Indie band to take off big on the strength of a first record . |
| 17 | These substitute for open void media , and never block : besides , the water butt 's drain cock comes in handy for back-flushing . |
| 18 | Jessica felt sweat break out fresh on her skin as they walked in . |
| 19 | Where firms produce identical outputs and have identical constant marginal costs equilibrium price ends up equal to this common cost . |
| 20 | Other wildlife seems to have escaped immediate disaster , with no reports of deaths among the dugong or turtles , and just one dolphin washed up dead on the shore . |
| 21 | Not the greatest of air travellers , the policeman had accepted Duncan 's offer to sit up front in the cockpit . |
| 22 | Our newly expanded page area came in handy for the Financial Results Special — there are some big results to report . |
| 23 | The original material of the axis shows up black against the background of the rock . |
| 24 | Could a man who deserted his wife and child for another woman get off free without scars ? |
| 25 | Ifor worked in the mines , played his rugby and read poetry : dangerous work , hard sport and learning ; a masculine ideal come down unalloyed from Ancient Greece to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 26 | This story went over big with the seven and five-year olds in my party . |
| 27 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Kidnappers strip victim A 26-YEAR-OLD man turned up naked on a garage forecourt after being held by a kidnap gang for three hours . |
| 29 | This principle is concerned with the collection of data , often a manual operation carried out separate from the computer process . |
| 30 | The fire had roared itself out and the ash in the centre flushed up grey with each entry and lay over everything . |