Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also we mentioned an environmentally sound road system and it 's not only that we 're , as are you over there against the fourteen or twenty eight lane or whatever busy lane it is on the M twenty five , because by putting all just increasing the road capacity is gon na lead to great loss from Kings Kingston on Thames and Ashtead and Shepherds Bush to Solihull . |
| 2 | Of course we all like to get on with people at work , but our relationships are based on our skills , our expertise or our functional roles , not on friendship . |
| 3 | Superintendent what was your response or your initial reaction to that information ? |
| 4 | Even though she had left Stornoway when she was just 14 , she never lost her love for her birthplace or her sweet West Highland accent . |
| 5 | Cos it wo it does n't keep the light out of your kitchen or your other rooms does it , because of |
| 6 | Furthermore , when dates are suggested for changes in these forms , they are usually given , without comment , as the dates at which the changes took place in this standard variety or its unilinear precursor , and not the dates at which they might have taken place in some other variety . |
| 7 | Many instructors are not careful , or thoughtful enough about either their initial teaching or their subsequent monitoring of their students as they do their own cockpit checks . |
| 8 | Still prominent in art , folklore and literature , the live snake or its ubiquitous image influences millions of people in that country . |
| 9 | In the first of these a group of libraries cooperate because of a factor or factors which they hold in common — usually their subject field or their geographical location . |
| 10 | Your sick parent must be mentally fit to make this decision of her own free will , and it does not rob her of the right to make her own decisions as to the spending of her money or her free access to it . |
| 11 | If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . |
| 12 | Typical examples of the kinds of ritual practices that are commonly observed include : ( i ) dietary and sexual abstinence before hunting , ( ii ) visionary experiences induced by drugs or fasting , ( iii ) ritual purification of hunter and weapons before hunting , ( iv ) offering of formal apology/excuse to the slain animal — blame-shifting , ( v ) offering of tokens of appeasement — food , tobacco , etc. — to the slain animal , ( vi ) ceremonial treatment of carcass — verbal flattery and solemnity , ( vii ) rules determining who may eat animals ' flesh ( which may include abstention by hunter and/or his entire kin group ) , ( viii ) avoidance of waste , ( ix ) avoidance of boasting , ( x ) ritual disposal of uneatable or unusable remains , and ( xi ) post-hunting purification of the hunter and/or his weapons ( see e.g. Frazer , 1922 ; Hallowell , 1926 ; Benedict , 1929 ; Speck , 1977 ; Campbell , 1984 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | It takes little imagination to foretell the likely consequences of just one peg disintegrating and flinging its spring or its free arm into the cutter gap during a pass ; or the possible knock-on effect(s) on the rest of the makeshift assembly and the astonished operator if this should happen . |
| 14 | Contribution , if ordered , would enable the third defendant or his fellow conspirators to retain part of the proceeds of their conspiracy or fraud . |
| 15 | The Insurance Advisory service will also provide cover for all your other insurance needs , such as for your car or your personal belongings . |
| 16 | Er , you 'll probably get a temporary membership card when you get free car or your new car . |
| 17 | If you want to find out what is available in your area , ask the social services department or your local health visitor . |
| 18 | Your local library , Citizens Advice Bureau , or the Social Services Department or your local authority will be able to give details of help available in your area or tell you where detailed advice can be sought . |
| 19 | In these days of digital technology and modular electronics , it 's hard to know where to turn when your blue-speaker AC30 begins to issue smoke , your Copicat starts munching recording tape or your beloved Marshall JTM45 just sits and coughs in the corner . |
| 20 | Although the answer he gave was perfectly correct , neither his reply or our accompanying diagram make absolutely clear the importance of glass thickness from a safety point of view . |
| 21 | They are against it , except if they , their secret lover or their 14-year-old daughter is pregnant . |
| 22 | The effect or their legislative changes , however , was to initiate the dismantling of the Poor Law from without , by withdrawing from it the most obviously deserving groups , though in accordance with principles little different from those of the Poor Law . |
| 23 | She would not think of her dry mouth or her empty stomach , or the clammy chill of the dungeon that had seeped into every bone in her body . |
| 24 | On 21 May , Christie 's New York will sell thirty-one Italian paintings from the Getty 's collection , most of which have not been on view for many years either due to their unsatisfactory condition or their downgraded status : a ‘ Rest on the Flight into Egypt ’ was described in 1963 as ‘ the greatest reward for visitors to the collection … by Orazio Gentileschi , a Caravaggesque masterpiece by an artist who had learned the lesson of realism ’ , only to be dubbed a later copy , probably Francesco Gentileschi , in the opinion of R.W. Bissel , the leading authority on the artist ( est. $50–70,000 ) . |
| 25 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 26 | Each patient had a functional gall bladder according to the evidence of a clearly visible gall bladder and its contractile response to egg yolk recorded on the drip infusion cholangiogram before operation , and by a total biliary lipid concentration greater than 50 g/l . |
| 27 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 28 | Furthermore , a constant emphasis on development in old age may be at variance with both our intellectual and our emotional response to decay and death . |
| 29 | She only realised then that she was sitting behind the wheel and her flushed face flushed even further as she moved across with great difficulty . |
| 30 | ‘ All sight if I walk up a bit ? he called to Marty , who was leaning forward with his elbow on the wheel and his open palm supporting his chin . |