Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 2 | Great rift goes back 500 years |
| 3 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 4 | Soldier beats up four women |
| 5 | Of course , what constitutes murder , rape , robbery , assault , and other forms of serious crime varies over historical periods and between cultural groups , as the changes and contradictions within and between powerful interest groups , and the shifting alliances of the less powerful bring about slight and not-so-slight tilts of society 's power axis ( Chambliss 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Ones such as , ‘ powerful plain pistons ’ , convey the sense of abruptness and force needed in the beginning while ones such as ‘ speed throws up strange shapes ’ slip from one word to the other giving a feeling of velocity . |
| 7 | THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water . |
| 8 | However , vibration of sounds at 800 cycles per second and below is the limit of information , the vibrator picks up unwanted sounds which may drown the signals which you want to receive . |
| 9 | The Rock picks up several points made in earlier Criterion commentaries . |
| 10 | THE wail of pipe music is overlaid with the gentle sound of running water , low-key light picks out dappled hues of rust and ochre stretching from horizon to sky as three black-clad figures weave lazy patterns across a dusty landscape . |
| 11 | While the typology sets up these principles , only a commentary can be faithful to them and maintain the text 's plurality . |
| 12 | As heat continues to be produced in the core , so air in the loft flows down these flues , drawn by the coolness of the cellar beneath . |
| 13 | Research amongst other knitters on my course bears out these findings and thus proves the theory ! |
| 14 | In Figure 2.15A we can imagine a segment of the Earth 's surface ( ABE ) which has split into two , the two halves ( ABC and ADE ) remaining in contact only at point A. Point A is the pole of rotation about which movement occurs , and the separation of originally adjacent points on each segment occurs along small circles about this point . |
| 15 | O'Hare , a 21-year-old from Newry , was the hero of Coleraine 's penalty shoot-out wins over big guns Portadown and Glentoran in the earlier rounds . |
| 16 | Foucault points out several factors which fundamentally challenge this : the fact , for instance that the sexual apparatus and the nuclear family were produced by the bourgeoisie as an aspect of its own self-affirmation , not as a means of controlling the working class ; that there are class sexualities ( and different gender sexualities ) ; that indeed there are sexualities , not a single uniform sexuality . |
| 17 | O signatures were measured on early-formed low-Mg calcite cements and septarian vein fills in near-spherical concretions from the Chombe sequence and from equivalent sequences in southern Tanzania . |
| 18 | He claims his recovery plan kills off Labour claims that he is doing nothing to combat unemployment . |
| 19 | A companion to their recent Best of , this compilation gathers up sixteen songs from the ruins of their turbulent eight-year career , from the glorious shambles of their rudimentary punk-folk anthems to their later , less convincing , forays into more exotic territories . |
| 20 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 21 | Getty Museum pulls out some prunes |
| 22 | After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun . |
| 23 | Section 10(9) of the Children Act lays down specific criteria which the court must apply when an applicant seeks leave to apply for a s8 order ( see pp171-172 ) . |
| 24 | Tory-controlled Westminster City Council lays down strict rules for elected persons . |
| 25 | Charge-capped council sends out new bills . |
| 26 | The National Resources Defense Council sends out fat paperbacks to schools and businesses , usually unsolicited . |
| 27 | All of us understand that the sun gives out ultraviolet rays and most traditional sunscreening products at least offer protection from those referred to as UVB , the rays that burn . |
| 28 | Section 15 of the Act sets out these powers . |
| 29 | The second volume of drawings in the J. Paul Getty Museum comes out four years after the first and is equally welcome . |
| 30 | Walker 's symbolism runs along Swedenborgian lines to a certain extent . |