Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Water Drip appears a tempting bet for the serious punters in the Birthday Stakes Hurdle although the 540-metre trip will tax his stamina . |
2 | Altogether more of a Second Empire kind of guzzle than a Roman treat , that invention . |
3 | The reverberations fade until the only sound in the room is our breathing , slowing down . |
4 | People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it . |
5 | It was the sort of day when men run their fingers round their collars and women pull their skirts away from their thighs , and people debate whether a hot cup of tea really cools you down or whether a glass of cold water is more helpful . |
6 | On the subject of making up his mind or the minds of parties in Scotland , can the Secretary of State say whether the Conservative candidate in Kincardine and Deeside supports that aspect of Conservative party policy ? |
7 | When it is serious , spots and patches of yellow and red appear as the green chlorophyll is not made , or breaks down . |
8 | In contrast , the electromagnetic E and B fields measured at a point oscillate when an electromagnetic wave passes . |
9 | Ruth sat silent on the stern thwart as the Drowned Forest receded and the boat went out over the glittering water , into emptiness . |
10 | Then they go to the centre for special training and wait until a blind person needs them . |
11 | To feed the ants , wait until the feeding compartment is empty . |
12 | Wait until the other modifier is finished . |
13 | Either wait until the nominated approver has rendered his decision , activate the DC/DCs via a different package or ask the nominated approver to deny approval so that further work will be allowed . |
14 | Imagine if the wrong person opened it . ’ |
15 | One third of patients accepted for heart transplantation die before a suitable donor is found . |
16 | Parametric manipulation of landmark stability offers an intriguing way of enabling or disabling the process of spatial representation and , thus , a principled basis for exploring further whether the hippocampal formation or hippocampal long-term potentiation plays a role in the flexible encoding of spatial relationships . |
17 | I hope when the financial sub-committee suggests the capital expenditure one is n't there . |
18 | Rita was on target to capture the singles title when a recurring leg injury regrettably ended her bid . |
19 | Five hundred homes had their power supplies cut when a hot air balloon collided with high voltage cables . |
20 | The Motif Client Module enables users to run Motif-based applications with the same tools and support as the standard client module . |
21 | If they rank the checkerboard solution last in other circumstances , in the case of strict liability for manufacturers , for example , they nevertheless believe that internal compromise is wrong , though for reasons that yield when the substantive issue is very grave . |
22 | ‘ Currently , such costs count as a general overhead of the business , and the VAT on them is usually deductible . |
23 | Because of the lack of long-distance tracks , many keen walkers are reduced to ‘ bagging Munro 's ’ and other such pointless pursuits ( I speak as a keen walker as well as cyclist ! ) . |
24 | Concentrate until the very end , since key ideas and themes may be summarised at this point . |
25 | These features develop if the back-arc lithosphere behind the orogen is moving towards it relative to the underlying asthenosphere , since this convergence will probably lead to partial subduction of the back-arc lithosphere . |
26 | Er I mean if a particular group 's promoting a product which we 're already using , then I might switch investment to that product if there 's a big discount . |
27 | Beware if a potential leader comes in with dissatisfaction at how he has been treated in a previous group . |
28 | ‘ Once they were shy , ’ he told me , ‘ but now they attack because the white man … ’ he pointed an imaginary rifle at the window and pulled the trigger . |
29 | Things matter because the precise form of words in which they are expressed indicates that the Council intended this particular passage to have an especially authoritative character . |
30 | Consider whether the participating member should be given the opportunity to discuss details of the request with the client . |