Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these commentators Wilde represents both a cultural ‘ decay ’ and a resurrection of ‘ pagan viciousness ’ and ‘ primal errors ’ ( pp. 98 , 134 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round . |
| 3 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 4 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 5 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 6 | Howe still needs a goalkeeper on loan because David Seaman has only a slender chance of returning on Saturday and his two deputies are injured . |
| 7 | Reid said : ‘ David has exactly the same single-minded attitude as Lineker , and that 's why he will score goals at any level . ’ |
| 8 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 9 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 10 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 11 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 12 | ALL AT SEA : Madge shows off a great , but unwinnable , prize |
| 13 | While Halliday takes on a new role , David Irwin is just happy to return to the scene . |
| 14 | The sooner DOL gets back the better IMO . |
| 15 | Gilligan mentions here the anonymous woman whose nonlegalistic thinking enabled Solomon to display his legendary wisdom . |
| 16 | Mum says nothing until Richard lets loose a mid-sized burp . |
| 17 | Amalia Cardos de Mendez in the Art of Ancient Mexico sets out a simple plan for the language and goes to great length to explain the Maya calendar . |
| 18 | Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ . |
| 19 | 1968 : MCA sets up a British operation . |
| 20 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 21 | Andrew Kelton explains how a cheap , efficient , sewage plant can be constructed as a natural habitat based on reeds |
| 22 | Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales . |
| 23 | Nevertheless Paine makes much the same point as Rousseau in his contention , in Rights of Man , that : |
| 24 | SFIA runs probably the largest educational trust , providing school fees for some 12,000 children . |
| 25 | However , Schoenbaum points out the superficial level of social change pointing to the ‘ schizophrenia ’ of Nazi society — ; where it ‘ could be seen everything had changed and nothing had changed . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Gilchrist points out the strategic difference between the Abbey and the Guardian distribution . |
| 27 | David Frost kicks off a new series of Sunday breakfast current affairs shows by interviewing Premier John Major , Clive James hosts a new series titled Fame In The Twentieth Century , and Selina Scott will present show business and media magazine Entertainment Express . |
| 28 | In planning terms , Liphook plays quite an important part on the district map , said chairman Mr. Croucher . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , despite Northgate 's Irish facade and despite the growth of local mosquito exploration companies , mining in Ireland has since the sixties always been controlled from outside the country . |
| 30 | NCVQ , which has an overall responsibility to reform and rationalise all vocational qualifications in England , Wales and Northern Ireland exercises essentially an accrediting role through recognising as NVQs those qualifications which meet its criteria . |