Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
| 2 | We must : ( i ) demonstrate to our citizens the benefits of the Community and the Maastricht Treaty ; ( ii ) make the Community more open , to ensure a better informed public debate on its activities ; ( iii ) respect the history , culture and traditions of individual nations , with a clearer understanding of what member states should do and what needs to be done by the Community ; ( iv ) make clear that citizenship of the Union brings our citizens additional rights and protection without in any way taking the place of their national citizenship … |
| 3 | I say this because contact with the next of kin may reveal that the patient has made an anticipatory choice which , if clearly established and applicable in the circumstances — two major ‘ ifs ’ — would bind the practitioner . |
| 4 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 5 | Those which say all or part of it , with perhaps the addition of a hymn , do so either because their numbers are small and their voices ageing , or as a result of a deliberate choice . |
| 6 | Sihanouk resigned as president of the CGDK on Jan. 24 , citing " international hostility " towards him since the August 1989 Paris conference . |
| 7 | When they had finished eating they lay unsleeping though well-wrapped before the fire and listened to the mournful wind . |
| 8 | The gravel was carpeted in bright green moss and leaves lay sodden and dark under the shrubs . |
| 9 | A depressed person may cry a great deal , show self-pity and lack of interest in the outside world and have no enjoyment of everyday life , even food . |
| 10 | Put your best foot forward and walk all or part of a 25 mile route from London to Ware in Hertfordshire to raise money for the Heart Research Charity . |
| 11 | But we wanted from the start to dissociate ourselves from the arrogant and ignorant belief that in some mysterious way English is superior to other languages , and that children who speak Bengali or Hindi at home should abandon these languages as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Disabled facilities grants cover all or part of the cost of adaptation work , such as putting in a downstairs toilet . |
| 13 | There are only a few detailed pollen diagrams from the Outer Hebrides that cover all or part of the last 10,000 years , the so-called post-glacial . |
| 14 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |
| 15 | Students are encouraged to take an individual pathway through the course , encountering a range of disciplines which stimulate self-realisation and expression of ideas through a wide range of media . |
| 16 | Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . |
| 17 | If , for example , the reasons described seem unfair or conflict with what was said to you at the time of your dismissal , and you are eligible for unfair dismissal rights , the next step might be for you to make a complaint to the industrial tribunal . |
| 18 | Things certainly look better than back in the late Eighties , when he went unemployed for nearly two years . |
| 19 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 20 | In fact , the LeBaron made my Astra 2.0i CD seem taut and crisp in comparison . |
| 21 | If you sell all or part of your business when you retire , you may not have to pay tax on the first £150,000 of capital gain with a further exemption allowed of one-half of gains between £150,000 and £600,000 . |
| 22 | These alternative splices include deletion of type III repeats 6–9 in combination with deletion of repeat 11 or deletion of 10–12 ( 32–34 ) . |
| 23 | Knit front and back of garment and join one shoulder . |
| 24 | And so his knell is knolled ’ ; by Malcolm , ‘ The night is long that never finds the day ’ ; by Macbeth himself , ‘ Send out more horses , slurr the country round , /Hang those that talk of fear . ’ |
| 25 | First , academic institutions have made only moderate progress in developing internal processes which encourage self-reflection and self-criticism at the institutional level . |
| 26 | East and north , vast Flow Country peatlands sparkle blue and silver with lochs and lochans . |
| 27 | Use white or cream for the contrast colour . |
| 28 | They become mature and adult for working purposes at about eight or nine months and will continue to work for the duration of their life . |
| 29 | Environmentalists keep quiet because concern over radon in houses would divert attention from the campaign against nuclear power . |
| 30 | It seems that in the case of the higher primates the diffusion and decay of specific instinctual behaviours has facilitated — perhaps even necessitated — the evolution of a primitive and elementary ego-organization , that is , one in which unfocused instinctual drives are increasingly brought under the control of the higher cortical centres which facilitate drive-management and decision-making on the basis of great adaptive flexibility of response . |