Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simultaneous bringing into play of two senses can be effected either by coordination , as in 32 , where John and his driving licence select different senses of the verb expire , or by anaphora , as in 33 : |
| 2 | On some coals drawn to the side of the neat little fire , strips of meat were laid to grill : with the subtle savour of wood smoke they spread a most provocative smell on the still air . |
| 3 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 4 | 1.2 The Programmer will deliver the Program to the Publisher by the dated specified in Part 1 of the Schedule ( or by any later date agreed between the parties ) ; in this respect time shall be of the essence of the contract . |
| 5 | 1.2 The Programmer will deliver the Program to the Publisher by the dated specified in Part 1 of the Schedule ( or by any later date agreed between the parties ) ; in this respect time shall be of the essence of the contract . |
| 6 | An appreciation of the whys and wherefores of nursing research is fundamental to good practice and an introduction to this for the uninitiated appears in chapter 7 . |
| 7 | They were the traditional way for the rich to travel by water — and in Egypt everyone travelled by water . |
| 8 | John Major , the British prime minister , created a political storm recently when he seemed in a speech to be supporting the idea of workfare — requiring the unemployed to work in exchange for benefits . |
| 9 | The unemployed stood at street corners , dejected . |
| 10 | It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations . |
| 11 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 12 | ( Did you know that whenever the English went to war with France , our soldiers immediately hanged any of these Scottish mercenaries they captured ? |
| 13 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 14 | Truth , justice , charity itself demanded the rigorous safeguarding of property dedicated to God and the saints . |
| 15 | The final route climbed of the selection made here , was the steep eliminate of Absolution ( E5 ) , fittingly pioneered in 1987 by sea cliff virtuoso Pat Littlejohn . |
| 16 | It is probably ample to accommodate the spontaneous arising of DNA or RNA . |
| 17 | In November 1943 the Middle East crisis flared up again , when the British intervened on behalf of the Lebanese government . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the British remained under siege in their base at Suez . |
| 19 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 20 | The major point of conflict was the means of determining whether or not a defendant was guilty , not the definition of criminal offences or the failure of the British to take into account status differentials . |
| 21 | The villagers and the British agreed in principle that ‘ theft ’ was wrong , but differing conceptions of property rights resulted in differing opinions about whether or not the taking of plantation produce was really theft . |
| 22 | Other countries apparently more successful than us , never seem to mind change , the British do for fear that it diminishes their lot in life . |
| 23 | The other 10 EC nations are determined to press ahead with the Maastricht Treaty on their own if either the Danes or the British fail to back it . |
| 24 | The British complained of arrogance and aggressive self-seeking . |
| 25 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 26 | ( Sadly , there is not exactly equivalent expression in English ; the French have in mind businessman whose fingers seem to stick everywhere . ) |
| 27 | Shortly before midnight , the French retreated in disarray , leaving the field to the English . |
| 28 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 29 | Show these cars a twisty , wet A-road , though , and the Limited transforms from man to He-man . |
| 30 | The Japanese innovate at home and actively collaborate in the innovations of others . |