Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like one of those terrible sights of the racecourse or the battle field where wallowing living beings persevere dumbly in their duty although mutilated beyond repair . |
| 2 | If you are into backpacking , self-sufficient trekking abroad , or expeditions of any kind where carrying heavy loads is essential , you will be interested in Karrimor 's newly launched Aurora SA7000 rucksack , their latest big load carrier . |
| 3 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 4 | I told her that we should both be delighted , that there was no greater compliment than to find another lady wearing one 's best outfit . |
| 5 | Better to continue to suffer under its domination and its oppression than gain economic power through blood and slaughter . |
| 6 | The owner said that he would rather keep the theatre dark than offer such rubbish . |
| 7 | The researchers , at University College , London , and Nottingham , say the test would not replace the smear but would be an effective and cheaper alternative than referring all women with slightly abnormal results for colposcopy . |
| 8 | The public has to rely on the media but some presentations seem to be made more for dramatic effect than to provide unbiased information . |
| 9 | Guitarist Simon Walker left right at the end of recording and so , as of a few weeks ago , we have a brand-new House Of Love guitarist — ex-Woodentop Simon Mawby , fresh from playing funky Chic-style stuff behind Jimmy Somerville , and now in the unenviable position of trying to learn the new album while compressing three guitar parts into one in order to play it live . |
| 10 | ‘ But we could easily maintain our standard of living while using less electricity . |
| 11 | One of the American complaints against Japan is that Japan has had access to US government-funded research while denying foreign companies access to research funded by the Japanese government . |
| 12 | In these early stages of re-training , the horse can be expected to keep in rhythm while doing basic school movements , carrying himself on a light contact . |
| 13 | He said the NHS is under threat from overspending on administration while ignoring clinical costs . |
| 14 | The only light I use at night is a small torch which I can grip in my mouth while using both hands to bait up , sharpen or change hooks , or make any other adjustments to my tackle . |
| 15 | A 78-year-old Darlington man was rushed to hospital yesterday after he was knocked down by a car while crossing High Row . |
| 16 | The aim of the operation is to ablate the diseased bowel while preserving normal function of the anal sphincter . |
| 17 | Particular criticism was levelled at the industry for planning massive expansion of the nuclear power programme whilst paying scant attention to the waste which would accumulate . |
| 18 | The importance of diet in this group of patients is that for some diet alone will suffice , while for the rest there must be a good dietary compliance if control is to be optimal at a steady weight whether using oral agents or insulin . |
| 19 | In our own project we have seen no alternative but to see local people as part of the working-class , exploited more than many of their fellows elsewhere by their social , economic and cultural environment in the centre of a large city , whose economy is shaky and uncertain in Britain 's present stage of development . |
| 20 | I am left with no alternative but to seek legal advice on this matter which I believe has been taken for one reason and one reason only — that is to discourage the importation of fish to secure employment in the Grampian area . ’ |
| 21 | Yet Mary Joe forcibly made the point that ‘ exhibitions can hurt the tour when they take place during the same period , the same City or just the same continent as specified sanctioned tournaments . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps echoing the ritual reality of an annual Easter reclothing of the royal retinue , the episode as recounted six months later to Charles 's camp signified his political " resurrection " and the collective cleansing and rededication of his followers . |
| 23 | The aim of imposing this levy is not so much to raise revenue as to bestow contributory rights on lower paid , part-time workers . |
| 24 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |
| 25 | With health and safety legislation , safety reps would have the law on their side when challenging these employers . |
| 26 | For both partnerships and companies all properly incurred expenses of the trade can be offset against revenue when computing taxable profit . |
| 27 | ‘ But where the delivery has been delayed through the fault of either buyer or seller the goods are at the risk of the party at fault as regards any loss which might not have occurred but for such fault . ’ |
| 28 | Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations . |
| 29 | We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output . |
| 30 | 3 Deliver the script as typescript , double-spaced on one side of A4 paper , but should the Author ask the Publisher to prepare the script as required such costs shall be borne by the Author . |