Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when he managed a very convincing Frankie Howerd imitation — eyebrows raised , cheeks sucked in , mouth open in a little ‘ oh ’ of mock surprise , Mr Kinnock seemed not to notice . |
| 2 | In other words , does English criminal law pick out the most heinous forms of killing as murders and manslaughters , or are the boundaries frozen by tradition ? |
| 3 | ‘ On-site staff discuss the catering service at daily briefings and on a monthly basis carry out a more formal team briefing . |
| 4 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 5 | The five bells of the cathedral ring out a weirdly charming peal : perhaps some of the bells come from the foundry next door to the nineteenth-century cathedral . |
| 6 | In their work , the ideological contradictions of the middle-class liberal humanist attitude to the Industrial Revolution take on a specifically sexual character . ’ |
| 7 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 8 | The efforts to achieve Vera 's release take on a more desperate urgency in the face of her excruciating loss . ’ |
| 9 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |