Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 2 | If by next spring he becomes this country 's first heavyweight holder for nearly 100 years , he intends to make the challengers come to him . |
| 3 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 4 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 5 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 6 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 7 | As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier . |
| 8 | In the New Testament it means total allegiance . |
| 9 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 10 | Is the Minister aware that the cracker he pulls this Christmas will probably have been packaged by a home worker , as will the Christmas cards and gift tags ? |
| 11 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 12 | If it gets into the predator 's nose it can injure the tissues there and if it enters the mouth it causes violent vomiting . |
| 13 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 14 | As with the acquisition of any skill it requires conscious effort as each skill is practised to the point where it becomes effortless ( see Skilful behaviour on page 155 ) . |
| 15 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 16 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |
| 17 | At home he shows consistent management problems . |
| 18 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
| 19 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 20 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 21 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 22 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
| 23 | Oh , my goodness he needs some exercise does n't he ? |
| 24 | I 've a sneaking suspicion he bins any letter that criticizes his government , before he even reads it . |
| 25 | Yet earlier in the article he mentions that car workers ' wages have risen from 40 per cent to 69 per cent of German workers ' wages . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities . |
| 27 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 28 | What is the total distance he walks each day ? |
| 29 | Every day it serves identical food to 19 million people and swallows $1.3 million profits . |
| 30 | Cos if you see on top it says regional accent . |