Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The majority revere him in spite of all he 's done , ’ said a US official . |
| 2 | They are centred around a flower festival at St John 's from today until Sunday and include two organ recitals by Dr Donald Davison and an exhibition on the history of Malone parish , which will be presented by parishioner Dr Paul Larmour , the writer Take it from me , nobody knows more about the past of that part of Belfast than Paul . |
| 3 | Yet a couple of features in the sentence push it towards Orientation : it contains an explicit temporal signal in the form of " when " and , more significantly , contains a past progressive verb phrase ( " he was sitting " ) . |
| 4 | Ideally , you should be able to go to your VDU terminal , pass through the necessary security controls , input information , have the computer check it for you , enquire on particular elements or records of information , produce ad hoc or regular print outs and produce graphical output with simple commands . |
| 5 | The minutes of the SGM held on the 4th May 1990 were read and it was agreed that the chairman sign them as a true record . |
| 6 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 7 | Do not let this kindness on the part of the college discourage you from buying your own textbooks and building up a library of your own . |
| 8 | Let us hope that the electorate sack them in April . |
| 9 | In that way the electorate see us as people first , Conservatives second and politicians third . |
| 10 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 11 | The test of its validity is whether the subjects of the research accept it as a true account of their way of life . |
| 12 | But I think it 's time , I think we both agree that the time er well used because it 's for the because your Lordship will have a better understanding of the evidence when the plaintiff and the defendant give it from the witness box . |
| 13 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 14 | But , asks NICK CAIN , can the World Cup organisers allow themselves to let South Africa 's intense love of the sport blind us to the fact that , unless political and economic stability are rapidly established , giving the tournament to a country in turmoil could have massive repercussions . |
| 15 | I 'd like you to take a sample of the polish from Dr Darnell 's fingernails , and have the lab match it against the flake you found . ’ |
| 16 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 17 | The power of the father is not quite like that of the ‘ patriarch ’ in Filmer 's Patriarcha ( 1680 ) , yet his activities outside the home invest him with an importance which the wife does not have . |
| 18 | Intense hedgerow scents on the bouquet lure you to the gorgeously fruity taste redolent of cassis , but with a slightly grassy note . |
| 19 | Second , the cataclysmic effects of the Fall introduce us to the problem of scarcity and imbalance in the world as well as the impossibility of creating some economic Utopia . |
| 20 | He stands , arms outstretched like an ancient knight , whilst the remainder of the team dress him in the EOD suit . |
| 21 | The right characterise it as the ‘ nanny state ’ stifling initiative and giving unproductive employment to the middle classes . |
| 22 | Those in the centre and on the Right regard him as a pragmatist ; those on the Left see him as a right-winger . |
| 23 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 24 | The first of them is the group thank you to all of them for assisting the panel sometimes working on the computing . |
| 25 | Among the Dark Elves of Naggaroth he is known as the Reaper , to the Goblins of Red-Axe Pass he is Orcbane , and to the north the Norse know him as Mankiller . |
| 26 | He 's a good passer of the ball have him in the middle . |
| 27 | Black fury rose in him against the evil creature who was leeching Ireland of her youth , but Nuadu quenched it , lest the Robemaker turn it to his use . |
| 28 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 29 | That 's right , and it 's no coincidence because people in the east of London on the whole get it in the neck whatever happens , and particularly with this government . |
| 30 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |