Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , a slippery walk soon leads to a stream flowing across the line of approach : this , followed to the left , vanishes under a wall of rock , but a few paces upstream bring as a reward a vision of beauty . |
| 2 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 3 | I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause . |
| 4 | So , forget for the moment the big tourist attraction : explore your local area . |
| 5 | When the stems grow above the water the leaves become smaller , darker and fleshy . |
| 6 | The Camden-based five-piece appear under the pseudonym The Golden Eggs at and London Marquee supporting Power Of Dreams . |
| 7 | Edward Fox and Jane Lapotaire star in Nina Bawden 's Circles of Deceit , while Jonathan Pryce , Susannah York , and Anna Massey appear in the thriller The Man from the Pru . |
| 8 | ‘ You could video that and sell it as what you expect from a player the control , the passing , the will to take responsibility , to work , to retrieve situations . |
| 9 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 10 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 11 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 12 | Should one of the fry slip from the nest the male will catch it in his mouth and spit it back into the nest . |
| 13 | These include the different rates of production for speech , and writing , the degree of standardisation in writing as opposed to speech and the absence in writing of intonational features that can only be compensated for by sentence patterns which provide to a degree the emphases more readily available in speech . |
| 14 | I skate down the road a bit before I shout at cops — or anyone that was giving me some shit . |
| 15 | Lastly , report to the buyer every matter of significance or interest — eg that the property is in an area of outstanding natural beauty . |
| 16 | These are defences in the strict sense that they place on the defendant a burden of proving his innocence , on the balance of probabilities . |
| 17 | Like you say by the time the sun comes round ? |
| 18 | Later myths make of the Otherworld a place of endless hunting , endless feasting , endless pleasure … a sunny place . |
| 19 | In England and Wales approximately 8500 men and 9000 women die of the disease every year . |
| 20 | If you play around with the savings plan spreadsheet you will quickly discover that the earnings ratio is n't dependent on how much you put into the plan every month , only on how long you save for and the interest rate . |
| 21 | When patients register with the clinic a copy of their record is flagged by the registrar to ensure that we know of deaths and their certified cause . |
| 22 | The socialist world was a ‘ powerful international entity ’ advancing along a path which ‘ reveal[ed] in every way the intellectual and moral wealth of man and society ’ . |
| 23 | They had this very unhealthy large majority and they put before the House a Bill which offered total deregulation of shopping hours and to all intents and purposes stripped out nearly all the employment protection which has been a hallmark of Sunday trading legislation , certainly for the past century . |
| 24 | I 've got a very nice bottle of dessert wine I put in the fridge an hour ago — I know you like Muscatel , Loretta . |
| 25 | In both Guerrillas and A Bend in the River the description of a coup , of an emergent country 's state of emergency , is put together with the description of a sexual relationship between people of different races : an affinity is suggested , also apparent in the novella In a Free State . |
| 26 | If you listen to the way the voice comes in in relation to where the chords are , you 'll see that the vocal fits exactly in the holes where the guitar is n't playing . |
| 27 | It is probable therefore that from 6d to 9d a week is as much as labourers ' wives in general , hereabout , earn on an average the year through . |
| 28 | Most of these were ‘ coppiced ’ — cut to the ground every 20 years or so and then allowed to regenerate . |
| 29 | He says ; We put to the Government a proposal to raise the stamp duty threshold from thirty thousand to sixty thousand pounds and impose a higher stamp duty rate on property over one hundred thousand pounds . |
| 30 | At a ceremony he presented a signed certificate recognizing the contribution and support to the Party the member had given . |