Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assume it 's a piss-take of the scum song of the same tune about the welsh git running down the wing ( football field wing that is and nothing whatsoever to do with aircraft ) . |
| 2 | Anyone believing that the personal computer price wars have abated are in for a rude shock this week when Compaq Computer Corp brings out a plethora of new machines , including its first stab at a multimedia model , and cuts prices significantly on its existing products . |
| 3 | For example , the idea that a toy car rolls down a ramp until it runs out of push is discussed as a group of children play with toys . |
| 4 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 5 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 6 | MR MAJOR took full advantage last night of his election mandate to carry out the most extensive Government reshuffle since the Conservatives came to power 13 years ago . |
| 7 | By contrast Brigade ran up a massive 337 for three at Beechgrove to swamp Leinster by 209 runs . |
| 8 | Other reports in March stressed the need for a crash immunization programme to ward off the threat of epidemics . |
| 9 | But a cable fault knocked out the phone and fax at his home for two days delaying the arrival of the umpires ' report . |
| 10 | He calculates the location and properties of this cloud and asks for a research grant to send up a satellite to test his calculations . |
| 11 | There was a growing consensus that sex hygiene teaching held out the best assurance for eliminating vice . |
| 12 | They advocated the promotion of party schools at the guberniia level to speed up the educational attainments of local leaders so that they really could set the tone in political culture in sufficient numbers without having to depend so much on shaky agents . |
| 13 | What I can also tell you is that Lucy 's engaged the erm British Cast Iron Research Association to carry out a survey , and they tried to repeat the circumstances of the explosion , and they could n't do so . |
| 14 | He switched off his lamp to watch the cold , silver light settle over the church and headstones . |
| 15 | A good example of such a breach of secrecy followed an incident in 1979 , when the until-then-secret ‘ MUFTI ’ team of specially trained prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest demonstration by prisoners in D Wing of Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 16 | In Compressor/Expander mode , compression on the neck pickup swells out the tone to a given ceiling and sustains it , making it good for McCartney-esque melodic lines , but also for slapping , as the limiter-like properties of the compressor prevent massive explosions of sound . |
| 17 | Early Punk clothing mixed up every youth style since the war and joined them together with safety pins ; as its radical content faded , this was to supply a rich compost for new styles to grow , as each constituent part — Mod , Ted , skinhead — was unravelled in a series of revivals . |
| 18 | Originally an old coaching inn set round an ancient bowling green , now carefully developed to provide up-to-date comforts in the centre of this prosperous town to the South of the City . |
| 19 | ( Serve with plenty of Greek or pitta bread to mop up the sauces and a green salad . ) |
| 20 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 21 | A RESEARCH team at Glasgow University has just received a £1.5 million grant from the Science and Engineering Research Council to carry out a project to increase the capacity of fibre-optic cables , writes Eric McKenzie |
| 22 | Our medium term plan sets out a programme for developing the business we currently have in North America and Europe . |
| 23 | In consultation with the New York-based executive headhunter firm , Russel Reynolds & Associates , the search committee drew up a list of candidates , all directors or former directors of American museums . |
| 24 | The owner of the sandwich bar swabbed down the counter again and whistled an aria she recognised from La Traviata . |
| 25 | Out of the window the setting sun lit up the perfect whiteness of the Caucasus mountains ; a party of Austrian holidaymakers was down there somewhere , getting in some good skiing . |
| 26 | In order to compensate for this the Borough Council took on the responsibility for payment of the Parish Clerk 's salary and the maintenance of parish playing fields . |
| 27 | A teacher in one liaison group carried out a similar experiment with one of his classes with tests on a single topic . |
| 28 | All the motorways were cleared and our sixteen car motorcade cruised down the centre of the freeway at 6Omph . |
| 29 | This theme has been clouded by different and even contradictory ideas , such as a stimulus package and an investment tax-credit to pep up an economy that will probably grow by 3% this year . |
| 30 | Carbon monoxide picks up an electron ( is reduced ) to form the radical anion CO which reacts further with another CO or with carbon monoxide itself to form oxocarbon anions . |