Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One longs for more choice , for interpretations that are truly ‘ framed to the life of the words ’ ( to use Byrd 's phrase ) and not bland rehearsals of the notes , for performances that seek to move the listener rather than explore only the music 's sonorous surface . |
| 2 | First of these was our Himalayan hill-walk , albeit seen fro the comfort of Undercroft chairs , in the cheerful company of Bill Mitchell . |
| 3 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 4 | The United States in particular had feared that Malaysia 's EAEG proposal — a more exclusive and ambitious trade bloc initiative — would have divided rather than drawn together the trading interests of the wider Pacific area . |
| 5 | Normally printers of this type are classified as non-impact but this version actually deposits carbon rather than burn away a layer of silvering . |
| 6 | Comparative sensitivity of different imaging techniques in detecting gall stone recurrence — Ultrasound detected gall stone recurrence earlier and more frequently than did either the trial criteria or oral cholecystectography alone ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 7 | Lavandera makes the point that the standard procedure in quantitative sociolinguistics would have been to start the analysis from the forms themselves rather than to examine initially the discourse contexts in which they were used . |
| 8 | The extra work is needed to cope with demand for its new Rover 800 saloon , which although launched just a year ago is hammering opposition in the executive market . |
| 9 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |
| 10 | If thought right a proposal must go to Divisions and be put at the Annual General Meeting . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 12 | If purchased then the Sale of Goods Act 1979 will apply and the usual terms involving merchantable quality , fitness for purpose , etc. will be implied into the contract , subject to any valid exemption clauses . |
| 13 | Now this particular size , because do quite a lot of sizes as well , er , we do five different diary formats . |
| 14 | While accepting wholeheartedly the value of this sort of study — the discipline that goes by the name of philology in English-speaking countries — Saussure argued that it gave only a partial account of linguistic phenomena . |
| 15 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 16 | When you shorten distances between elements in a line of jumps , the horse simply has to bring its hocks under more than it is currently doing … while doing so the horse has to shift more weight from its forehand to its quarters , which are thus lowered and ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 17 | To the masses which the French Revolution had made politically aware and on which the Industrial Revolution was imposing new and appalling burdens while increasing exponentially the capacity to create wealth , Owen 's new view was of a society which had realised their aspirations . |
| 18 | Whilst working alone the craftsman also has no real need to describe or control the process elements , as he contains , in his head , the understanding of how the design is intended to work and the necessary stages to make this a reality . |
| 19 | A smile like that of a child who had been caught stealing sugar and has no choice but to confess lit the Friar 's face . |
| 20 | No one , as far as I know , has ever before cut away the wing of a submerged big jet . |
| 21 | Council will decide at a later date whether to make public the number of votes cast . |
| 22 | You pass you pass er the capital past two more roads , streets and you come to this one as goes right the way through into Street at . |
| 23 | That was not a proper construction of section 78 , which was drawn so as to embrace precisely the situation of this case amongst many others that might arise in individual cases . |
| 24 | Both assume that existing social constructions of normality define the goal to which people with learning difficulties must aspire ; both define and understand the ‘ problems of mentally handicapped ’ people in such a way as to indicate clearly the impossibility of ever achieving that goal ( the best hope being to build up patterns of skills which approximate to ‘ normal ’ behaviour ) ; and both create a professional/client relationship which enshrines the professional in a world of exclusive and privileged knowledge , and consequently entombs the individual with learning difficulties in a fundamentally dependent role . |
| 25 | The man entrusted with the steering this year is Ray Cochrane , who proved that 20 days on the sidelines had not dulled either his skills or competitive edge when driving home a double at Wolverhampton on Monday , his first day back , and adding another winner yesterday . |
| 26 | The whole area of Baberton Mains is now covered by Neighbourhood Watch Schemes , Belmont Road and Juniper Park Road have a scheme functioning as has also the Curriemuir End , Viewfield Road , Muirend Avenue district . |
| 27 | The whole area of Baberton Mains is now covered by Neighbourhood Watch Schemes , Belmont Road and Juniper Park Road have a scheme functioning as has also the Curriemuir End , Viewfield Road , Muirend Avenue district . |
| 28 | regarding these outbursts as representing merely the frustration of a justifiably punished athlete . |
| 29 | Yet governments ought to resist the temptation to dismiss peace movements as representing only a minority opinion , for it is in the nature of a wider but vaguer anxiety about the issue that it can hardly be organized or form the basis of a coherent campaign . |
| 30 | All through The Scale Hilton hangs his thinking on the pegs of Scriptural texts interpreted as revealing figuratively the nature of spiritual reality . |