Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you do it in the cabin or was there a bed made up in the back ? |
| 2 | Realistically the scope for change in 1992 – 93 was low but it will be interesting to see whether the present flurries of consultation bear fruit in future or are simply a public relations exercise . |
| 3 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd already stretched my credit to the maximum when the bank gave me a cheque guarantee card that was also a credit card . |
| 5 | ( v ) National claims summarize complex economic and social interests and classes , a coalition that is rarely the same in different times and places ; so ‘ nationalism , does not , in and of itself , indicate any self-evident aims . |
| 6 | Historical evidence shows that the so-called " present " tense could formerly be used much more freely to refer to the future than is now the case . |
| 7 | Many of the suggestions made in this Report presuppose a higher degree of expertise and commitment in church organists or directors of music in the future than is often the case at present . |
| 8 | Tomorrow night on Central we begin a two-part report on a murder that 's still a mystery … ten years after it was committed . |
| 9 | Sa , and I 'd say yeah but that 's not a pun that 's only a pun if you if you write down this is smashing said erm the robber or the smash and grab , in other words the window fell in , that kind of thing , you know . |
| 10 | She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand . |
| 11 | Irena drove me to the station , past the monastery that is now a military hospital , along the main road north where tanks rumble across at night . |
| 12 | It is clear that the worst child mortality is found among children classified as unoccupied , a term that is usually a euphemism for their economically inactive single parents . |
| 13 | Knowing that the village is close at hand , that the inn and the villagers will be awake for hours yet of summer light to welcome me , I linger , enjoying that expectancy of pleasure that is perhaps the most pleasurable part of a journey home . |
| 14 | And now here was a pleasure that was also an irritant . |
| 15 | This , therefore , showed the company to have a much larger credit turnover figure than was actually the case . |
| 16 | Another explanation of the vicar 's selfishness is possible , namely that he does not live up to his religion and is therefore a poor representative of it . |
| 17 | It is not possible to demonstrate adequately a specific hypothesis but one fact is certain : Wilfrid so earned the enmity of Ecgfrith that despite an appeal to Rome which endorsed the justice of his case , he remained in exile and was still an outcast from his church when Ecgfrith fell in battle against the Picts on 20 May 685 . |
| 18 | It was known locally as The Creamery and is now a house . |
| 19 | The tower itself is a local landmark and was once a ‘ camera obscura ’ . |
| 20 | Angela Oakley is a past president of the Glasgow Nordic Ski Club and is currently the club 's Vice-President and Training Co-ordinator . |
| 21 | The attribute unc on the other hand , associates the gear-lever to the passenger compartment and is thus an external association , as is unc which is only applied to the assembly ( not to individual parts ) . |
| 22 | Researchers are the people who gather table material for inclusion in a programme and are probably the most approachable people on the production team . |
| 23 | Warm up first ( follow the exercises in Chapter 6 — The Walker 's Workout ) , start slowly and do n't hurt yourself , for that is the fastest way to break the routine in your programme and is often the reason why so many exercise programmes fail . |
| 24 | On the finance and legal side we have had some very good women at Channel 4 : Janet Walker , for example , now , I think , at Granada ; Kate Wilson , who was a lawyer and is now a senior lawyer . |
| 25 | Mr Riley joined the corporate advisory department and is now an assistant director ; he heads a transaction team of 10 and is involved with recruitment . |
| 26 | This statement of the common purpose of conservation and sustainable economic development was adopted in the later UN report Our Common Future and is now the basic text for the UN Earth Summit to be held next June . |
| 27 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 28 | It occupies a long trench caused by a geological fault and is over a thousand feet deep , a much greater depth than the sea into which it debouches . |
| 29 | These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority . |
| 30 | In addition , being termed ‘ skilled ’ often simply means that the worker is carrying out a job traditionally performed by someone who has undertaken an apprenticeship and is therefore a craft worker by training . |