Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’ |
| 2 | For instance someone with a sore throat may well also have a fever and you will get a fuller picture by looking at the remedies in both sections . |
| 3 | One reads that such scenes give the green soldier nothing but a mad lust to kill in his turn . |
| 4 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The council provides the site , I take care of their £400,000 investment which in the current economic climate they ca n't find , and the LTA gives me their £200,000 grant to run it . |
| 6 | Those wanting to spot the more unusual wild flower would appreciate the Autumn Gentian which like the Chiltern Gentian has been successsfully cultivated here . |
| 7 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 8 | ‘ Women and Film ’ , to quote the title of E. Ann Kaplan 's ( 1983 ) important book on feminist film theory and criticism , defines a field of study which in the past fifteen to twenty years has been expanding rapidly . |
| 9 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 10 | I see erm it also misheard me here because I 'm involved in designing a television series as well on the construction industry also gives me some interesting data about the industry was it ten per cent of the nation 's workforce works for the construction industry which in an average year will turn over thirty five billion pounds |
| 11 | It has been a particular source of worry that sales of the magazine have been so low ; in fact on the current issue we made a considerable loss which as a small Society is very difficult to cover . |
| 12 | The steadying windvane is a help , and the alternative triangular frame idea shows a way of using weight itself as a stabilising force . |
| 13 | It 's a wonder any parts are left at all , what with debts of £6.5m and Sir John Hall still waging the boardroom battle that has very nearly claimed the club itself as the ultimate , ironic , victim . |
| 14 | But the upstairs one in the other one was was |
| 15 | Er two on one side one on the other one |
| 16 | The muskrat is a swamp-dwelling rodent something like a large water vole . |
| 17 | The first level — the gift relationship — is characterised by an inequality in the relationship such as sponsorship where a firm offers an institution something with no direct or equivalent return . |
| 18 | The main thing is to get a piece of paper between each piece of glassware so that if it does move , And if you j you just pack a piece of paper in er er fold it over a little er and push it in , i i so you stop movement . |
| 19 | Trevor , fishing it with a floating line and a 20-foot leader , retrieved the Tinhead slowly on Kingfisher Pool and tempted a fine 7lb 2oz rainbow trout . |
| 20 | As an undergraduate myself in the late sixties , I met two famous pioneer sisters , the Misses Deneke . |
| 21 | Do n't try to cure the flakiness yourself with an anti- dandruff shampoo — it requires a different treatment . |
| 22 | That would be the best time to refinance with a fixed-rate mortgage and lock oneself into the German virtuous circle of medium-paced growth , low inflation and minimal home loan costs . |
| 23 | … the standard of conduct required from a director in relation to dealings with a shareholder will differ depending upon all the surrounding circumstances and the nature of the responsibility which in a real and practical sense the director has assumed towards the shareholder . |
| 24 | Its system of display and retrieval must therefore be such that this kind of learning can proceed : that the individual user can , to a very great extent , progress himself through the various pathways to knowledge provided by the library , with the minimum of unnecessary difficulty and the maximum reinforcement . |
| 25 | I 'm not above all this , still boasting about my San Diego built glass-shafted driver which on a good day hits with a snap . |
| 26 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 27 | If dogs were the only issue in the general election which of the following would get your dog 's vote ? |
| 28 | Can we wait for prosperity and education to keep mankind in check ; so the humble villager , the wretched dweller in the shantytown does n't choose the traditional , unthinking , long-term option of a dozen children , the decision which in the long term destroys both them and theirs ? |
| 29 | " It 'll be good for a giggle , as Charlie says , " she concluded , with a look which on a lesser woman could have been called coy . |
| 30 | Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women 's section 's national birthday scheme , Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter 's tea party . |