Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlying the Unionist acceptance of coalition in 1918 was a darker attitude to the future than appeared in the coalition programme . |
| 2 | Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio . |
| 3 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 4 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 5 | Inform your neighbours ; notify the local fire brigade if required by a local byelaw . |
| 6 | It was , however , only a brief-lived aberration if compared with the more complete Victorian revival which happened later . |
| 7 | above shall have effect until approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament . … |
| 8 | To reach Ireby , descend alongside the wall heading south-west , crossing it where convenient and continuing down the other side until confronted by a large shakehole with a floor of boulders . |
| 9 | A PAIR of tramps in the cellar of an abandoned hotel lengthily airing their psychological underwear until evicted by a ( superficially ) heartless boilerman : we seem to have been here before . |
| 10 | Learning Classics or memorizing the year by year achievements of a football club will enhance the individual 's reputation in certain environments , but will prove a poor investment if used in the wrong circumstances . |
| 11 | We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat . |
| 12 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 13 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 14 | The first necessary stage in the exercise of the ‘ right of access ’ is to discover the existence of the files , since ‘ access ’ is not a meaningful term unless combined with a knowledge of where the files are . |
| 15 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 16 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 17 | A YOUNG British woman has been savagely murdered by her lover while working on a kibbutz in Israel . |
| 18 | But within six months John was spotted by a Luton talent scout while playing in a county schools match and moved south to Kenilworth Road . |
| 19 | Why not visit Castle Caldwell Forest , and enjoy the delights of a National Nature Reserve ( see no 9 ) or enjoy a picnic while taking in the beautiful views of Glenelly Valley and Sperrin Mountains ( see no 17 ) . |
| 20 | Taken together , these findings exclude the possibility that either apoptosis or the protective effect of bcl-2 involves the mitochondrial respiratory chain , at least in these cells under the conditions that we have studied , and raise the possibility that the Bcl-2 protein might exert its protective effect while bound to the continuous nuclear and ER membrane . |
| 21 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 22 | Cameron and Parkes ( 1983 ) cite , by way of example , the death of a woman who had spent her last weekend at home with her husband discussing plans for the future while sitting in the sun to regain her strength . |
| 23 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 24 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 25 | The 42-year-old woman was forced to drive a raider who hijacked her car while fleeing from a bungled bank robbery . |
| 26 | A typical story is of a youngster who has a syncopal episode while running across the school playground and is then sent for a neurological evaluation to exclude a seizure disorder . |
| 27 | Andrew Saxton and his colleague Andrew Davies faced a life ban after being found to have taken Clenbuterol while training for the games . |
| 28 | Early in the battle Azhag was struck from the back of his wyvern while fighting against the Knights Panther , leaving the Orc army leaderless and demoralised in the face of a fierce Empire attack . |
| 29 | They 'll frequently jump cigar out of the water while swimming fast , enabling them to maintain their speed while coming to the surface to breathe . |
| 30 | It has presented a picture of a large number of upper-middle-class families drawing their substantial incomes from industry whilst moving in a milieu which extolled and practised the alleged virtues of the English gentleman . |