Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 2 | Early in 1991 odour violation notices from the emissions regulatory authority were arriving at the plant at a rate of four a month — and to trigger a notice there has to be at least five complaints from neighbours . |
| 3 | MICHAEL LAWRENCE , GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR , PRUDENTIAL CORPORATION The man from the Pru rings in the changes Last month , Hugh Collum stood down as chairman of the 100 Group after a successful two-year campaign raising its profile . |
| 4 | Lisney adds to The Seasons three pieces , the Op. 59 Dumka a piece lasting some eight minutes , not easy to hold together as well as here , the Op. 5 Romance written for Désirée Artôt and the Op. 7 Valse-scherzo . |
| 5 | Recent research by the Advertising Research Unit indicates that an adult-like perception of the imagery in cigarette advertisements develops over the years 10 to 14 ; certainly it is well established by 16 years . |
| 6 | Briercrest is slowly dying … just a few old widows there now … not one living soul lives on the farms any more … all the old men are dead … but the old girls still have their little teas and their Ladies ' Aid meetings … have gardens and are happy as larks … |
| 7 | Robert Grosvenor is one of those artists who give new meaning to the term ‘ raw material ’ , using as he has over the years wooden beams — stacked , splintered , split and variously arrayed over the floor . |
| 8 | Zita Thornton looks at the options available |
| 9 | Bob Cervi looks at the issues worrying ministers |
| 10 | This project will secondary analyse the General Household Survey(GHS) for the years 1979-1984 to examine the sub-samples of owner-managers and the self-employed . |
| 11 | In future all department running costs will be cash limited with the intention of giving ‘ individual civil service managers greater flexibility to make best uses of the resources available to them ’ ( Hansard , H.C. , VI , vol. 110 , cols 933–4 , 18 February 1987 ) . |
| 12 | After distinguished service in World War II , first as an ambulance driver , then in R.A.F. Intelligence , Cooper embarked on a career as one of the art world 's most persistent gadflies , finding his pulpit in the form of unsigned book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 13 | Not one to shirk the product testing , she eats in the restaurants five times a week and , on some occasions , has a chef cook the entire menu for her . |
| 14 | Farmers may be able to pass on low prices in the form of low wages but this depends upon the conditions prevailing in the labour market in their area . |
| 15 | The precise interpretation of an ultimatum depends upon the circumstances prevailing at the time . |
| 16 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 17 | an analysis of the relationship between inputs ( funding , manpower ) and outputs ( eg publications , citations ) and of the determinants of research performance ; in particular , the research will examine the extent to which successful performance depends on the resources available as opposed to other factors ( for example , institutional environment , organizational structure , etc ) , and how these various factors interact ; |
| 18 | I say that a psychologist deals with the things normal people say and do , while a psychiatrist deals with the things dotty people say and do . |
| 19 | I say that a psychologist deals with the things normal people say and do , while a psychiatrist deals with the things dotty people say and do . |
| 20 | It begins with two entranced dancers fencing with short bamboos , and ends with the dancers unconscious in the arms of the community , while the bamboos continue dancing on their own as if they were slivers of paper on an electrostatically charged diaphragm . |
| 21 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 22 | The world of shadow is the condition of human knowledge , and imagination deals in the meanings inherent in it but points to the light beyond where it will no longer be of use : |
| 23 | In the first instance , the study concentrates on the professions supplementary to medicine employed within the NHS . |
| 24 | Part 2 may have been concerned with the kinetics of the reactions between hydrogen isotopes under the conditions attainable . |
| 25 | So did I. Ms Boyd was wearing bright red trainers which were certainly against regulations for any decent regiment of the line , despite what one hears about the Guards these days . |
| 26 | After an introduction by the presenter , who usually speculates on the issues likely to be raised with the Prime Minister that day ( a tiresome waste of time , especially as he is frequently wrong ) , the programme goes live , with only minimum commentary , till about 3.48 pm when the presenter returns to summarize the exchanges ( another waste of time ) . |
| 27 | At the end of the sixth book of The Faerie Queene , Spenser alludes to the troubles some of his earlier work has caused through slanders which provoked ‘ a mighty Peres displeasure ’ . |
| 28 | Using these means the enclosed volume may be declared to contain material and thus conforms to the conditions necessary for the definition of a solid . |
| 29 | — Following in Mama 's footsteps , Mandi Scott , daughter of clubland 's Queen of Song , Wendy Kay , takes to the boards this month . |
| 30 | For fitness , Roy plays in the Systems 5-a-side football every Wednesday lunchtime . |