Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 2 | Because it 's a beta version , I do n't propose to harp on about any niggles , but will say this — if more DOS applications adopt its user interface and usability as well as its wealth of functions , the death of DOS may be further off than many of us have predicted . |
| 3 | The man in the light-brown coat spooned the henna powder on to fancy scales with tiny brass weights , then folded it into a sheet of brown paper tied up with string . |
| 4 | Progressive rock believed in FUSION , the grafting on of new musics . |
| 5 | There are only three ways of controlling phylloxera : by grafting on to phylloxera-resistant rootstocks , the accepted method ; by planting into ‘ phylloxera-proof ’ soil of at least 85% sand content ; or by submersion ( flooding the vines ) for a period of sixty days in slightly permeable soils and ninety days in very permeable soils , sufficient to kill phylloxera but hardly practical for a working vineyard , especially when there is every likelihood that the parasite will return . |
| 6 | Could you really address Princess Diana as ‘ Your Royal Highness ’ after hearing her babble on for 20 minutes to a man who calls her Squidgy ? |
| 7 | Call Fidelity on for more details . |
| 8 | The next stage was to transfer this jumbled narrative on to A4-sized cards . |
| 9 | Heavens ! she thought , and was suddenly so impatient with herself that , seeing it was only for one night , for goodness ' sake , she grabbed hold of a favourite dress and folded that into her case along with some trousers and a spare lightweight sweater . |
| 10 | With visibility down to 25 yards in places , three motorists were killed in the M1 in Derbyshire . |
| 11 | With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead . |
| 12 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 13 | Another key aspect of the new courses has been the building in of planned linkages to degree provision . |
| 14 | It was a foursome in Pepe 's on Saturday , and Shelley let her hair down in more ways than one , dancing vigorously with the hunky Carlos , while Rosie and her good-looking little Francisco sat in the shadows , their heads close together . |
| 15 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 16 | Half a dozen lapwings are feeding on a potato field along with some sparrows and a party of twite , and I spot the white wing-flashes of a cock chaffinch among the black earth . |
| 17 | I am pleased to inform you however that the Council the British Association of Sport and Medicine Scotland have persuaded the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland to include voluntary sports medicine care in the lowest subscription category along with advisory services and ‘ Good Samaritan ’ work . |
| 18 | To benefit from tax-free interest , you must leave your money in for five years . |
| 19 | Breaking the budget down into shorter periods facilitates a more effective control device . |
| 20 | Due in part to a newly intense relationship between agriculture and commerce , the cow along with other animals became , through portraiture , a permanent resident inside wealthy country estate homes . |
| 21 | Still descending , I started a left-hand orbit down to 800 feet , than carb heat off . |
| 22 | Transfer the 3rd and every following 5th stitch on to adjacent needles at left and right at centre 0 , that is , with four stitches for cable at centre . |
| 23 | If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre . |
| 24 | Several downlights angled close to a wall of paintings ( say 60 cm [ 2 ft ] out from the wall and 60 cm [ 2–3 ft ] apart ) will give a dramatic effect by splashing light on to various surfaces with contrasting shadows in between . |
| 25 | The buckled roof of the modern , brick-built warehouse threw light on to ruined bundles of clothing . |
| 26 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 27 | His pickers embezzled one pound in twenty and disguised the weight loss by throwing the wool on to wet stones . |
| 28 | Gorbachev was equally forceful in attacking radical reformers , warning that some were " pushing us towards a bourgeois system and linking the solution of current problems with the country 's switch on to capitalist tracks " . |
| 29 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 30 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |