Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While climbing Britomartis Instead , it is worth noting that the second sentence of the description to pitch one should be deleted if the climber is not to pass the correct line and attempt a new route somewhere further along the wall . |
| 2 | Dyson slowly turned over the empty pages of his diary . |
| 3 | Despite the party leadership 's opposition to aspects of Mr Nemeth 's austerity measures , the budget is expected to be approved today , after parliament successfully watered down the controversial changes in housing policy which entailed steep rent rises and a sharp increase in mortgage payments . |
| 4 | The British Press habitually looks for an opportunity eventually to knock down the heroes they have created and placed on pedestals , if only to do something new . |
| 5 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 6 | The Prince carelessly handed over the sealed paper , then sent one of his Dutch aides to enquire about the identity of the girl in the diaphanous gold dress . |
| 7 | This tiny scrap suddenly took on a personality . |
| 8 | The second link between the worlds of commerce and research effectively ends probably the British computer community 's longest running saga . |
| 9 | Only time and scholarship eventually sort out the various relationships of artists who worked together . |
| 10 | I sat down on a milking stool , rolled up my trouser leg and examined the roll of skin which hung like a diploma at the end ofa long graze where the sharp hoof had dragged along . |
| 11 | In that final year , the income from the sale of lace , vegetables , fat and lard , pigs , horses , hay and firewood together brought in a total of only £74 . |
| 12 | Whereas a traditional craftsman would decide what should be done , how it should be done , when it should be done , and to what level of quality , as well as actually executing the task itself , modern management within capitalism takes on all these former conceptual functions , leaving labour merely to carry out the mechanical aspects of performing the manual task . |
| 13 | It is obvious from these figures that the BDDA in its early days did not represent the deaf and dumb population , but that the Association merely brought together the elite of educated deaf-mutes with some hearing people — mainly missioners and a few others with personal interest in the spiritual and social welfare of the deaf and dumb . |
| 14 | The wind only blew out the candles but not the enthusiasm in our hearts as we prayed and sang in honour of Our Lady . |
| 15 | If a defendant merely carries on a hobby , e. g. of buying , refurbishing and re-selling cars , a court might find that a transaction made in pursuance of the hobby , e.g. when he sells one of the refurbished cars , is not ‘ in the course of a trade or business , ’ Blackmore v. Belamy ( 1983 D. C. ) . |
| 16 | So are you gon na have to restrict training in er operational flights jaguar at a stretch just to stretch out the hours ? |
| 17 | When the tape finally ran out the eight members present were silent with shock . |
| 18 | I used to play football just to get out the aggression . |
| 19 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 20 | The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland . |
| 21 | But it 's erm er the light just takes away the inner tube and the batteries Tony said he was a manager so he got that as a freebie so is that it ? |
| 22 | There are other methods of storing food such as preserving , drying , or bottling , but these are of limited value if you live on your own , since , even if you entertain a lot , you would probably waste a lot of preserves or bottled food , as their condition quickly deteriorates once the jar or bottle is opened . |
| 23 | Like a lot of Lord Beaverbrook 's phrases , that was probably more colourful than accurate — but if such a frontier ever existed then the imperatives of current affairs television have certainly modified and adjusted it . |
| 24 | Last week 's win on Richard Hannon 's Swing Low at Goodwood was vintage stuff from the Dromore man and his weekend excursions to the Continent usually bring back the bacon . |
| 25 | Last week 's win on Richard Hannon 's Swing Low at Goodwood was vintage stuff from the Dromore man and his weekend excursions to the Continent usually bring back the bacon . |
| 26 | THE draw for the last sixteen of the FA Trophy yesterday threw up a battle of the Irish . |
| 27 | The agent usually starts off the party with a few games , to help people get to know each other . |
| 28 | Only in cases where it is not clear whether or not there is an intention permanently to deprive where the accused acts " without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing " need one look at s.6 . |
| 29 | THE JOCKEY CLUB yesterday meted out the stiff punishment of a 20-year ban from racing to Chris Willett , a point-to-point rider and trainer , who served a three-month jail sentence earlier this year for his part in a betting coup involving a ringer . |
| 30 | Hayzen also shows how a series of 2 × 2 matrices can be developed in order to give more specific insights into the company 's competitive position . |