Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 2 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 3 | Charlton recalls Aston Villa 's Paul McGrath but has also opted for Middlesbrough 's Alan Kernaghan , who wins only his fifth cap . |
| 4 | Charlton , as expected , recalls Aston Villa 's Paul McGrath but the slightly surprising choice as his partner in central defence is Middlesbrough 's Alan Kernaghan , who wins only his fifth cap . |
| 5 | ‘ He has only your best interests at heart . ’ |
| 6 | water sloshes over her old trainers |
| 7 | The Open Software Foundation denies a scathing front-page story in last week 's Communications Week that practically writes off its Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) , charging it with being late , possibly too late to matter much to the marketplace , and with causing in-fighting between OSF 's technology suppliers . |
| 8 | With the forthcoming publication of a government Bill on embryo research , SPUC has probably its best chance to challenge abortion laws . |
| 9 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 10 | When God forgives us he tears up our unfavourable information folder . |
| 11 | Sitting in the living room of her Gothic house in Highgate , North London , she holds up her 1991 diary and points to the entry for May 6 . |
| 12 | And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise . |
| 13 | The meanness of his voice makes it particularly appropriate to his audience , because Bauthumley holds up his own discourse as a model for the voices of those who are normally rendered silent : |
| 14 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |
| 15 | I just do n't want to be judged — or prejudged — by a title that shouts out my marital status or availability . |
| 16 | He holds out his small hand for the ticket . |
| 17 | When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it . |
| 18 | At 1.15 a.m. , however , the bite alarm on my flake-baited rod shrills out its sudden warning , the silver foil smacks the rod and at the same time I grasp the cork butt and drive the hook into a lip . |
| 19 | And has n't his constant interference in the lives of his children probably been as damaging to their personal relationships as any of the recent scandals ? |
| 20 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 21 | FIATA now supplies an air waybill form which allows the freight forwarder-consolidator to sign as a contractual carrier , in a box in which he fills in his full name and his capacity as a contractual carrier . |
| 22 | This messes up our whole routine , especially when we have to make numerous trips to the pigeon holes to see if the mail has arrived , not to mention putting the post room in a turmoil . |
| 23 | IT INCREASES YOUR METABOLIC RATE — Aerobic exercise such as brisk walking speeds up your metabolic rate . |
| 24 | Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent . |
| 25 | first , the definition of infanticide is limited to the killing of the child most recently born , which means that when a mother in a disturbed state kills both her last-born child and another slightly older child , the one killing is infanticide and the other may be murder , whereas the defendant 's culpability is surely the same in both cases . |
| 26 | And that that fills up my hard disk . |
| 27 | This bears out our earlier statement that debt policy is equivalent to lump-sum redistribution between generations . |
| 28 | Ellis would request that the client tests out his new hypothesis by ringing other girlfriends and arranging new dates . |
| 29 | She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes . |
| 30 | Injury and suspension could now give Walter Smith 's team a vulnerability on two fronts that tests even their noticeable capacity for ignoring logic and achieving results that fly in the face of realism . |