Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one would suggest that he rivals Sobers as the greatest of all-rounders , for , although he has taken more wickets , his batting has been much less consistent and his Test average is some twenty-three points lower than Sobers ' . |
| 2 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 3 | LOOKS LIKE A MILLION FOR £13.49 |
| 4 | LOOKS LIKE A MILLION FOR £9.45 |
| 5 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 6 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 7 | It lies in the same × 7 field with Epsilon . |
| 8 | The cluster lies in the same × 7 or × 8.5 field , together with a fainter star , 13 Monocerotis ( 4.5 ) . |
| 9 | Table I.5 Numbers in four age bands in every thousand of the UK population in 1981 and 2001 ( estimated ) |
| 10 | The thematic structure of the Arabic translation of this extract deviates from the original for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 12 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 13 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 14 | For a girl who has school trophies for athletics and swimming in the family cabinet , who supports Liverpool and whose favourite player is Steffi Graf , Bradnam is getting an achiever who looks to the best in sport for her inspiration . |
| 15 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 16 | Fig. 6.7(b) shows the function l/ [ fl ) — 7LV ) ] and the shaded area , , corresponds to the integral of this function with respect to stepping rate for rates between 0 and f1 . |
| 17 | Upon tracing the sixth ventricle of the brain , which corresponds to the fourth in the human subject , to its apparent termination , the calamus scriptorius , I perceived the appearance of a canal , continuing by a direct course into the centre of the spinal marrow . |
| 18 | The Jacksons , the Mullers , the Branwhites , and the Fripps all worked together to create a body of work that now stands among the best of British landscape painting . |
| 19 | Yet he passes for a moderate within the fierce revolutionary council , the Dergue . |
| 20 | ‘ That was a game we should have won after taking a two goal lead , and I think it 's still rankles with a few of the lads . |
| 21 | It happens in the best of families . ’ |
| 22 | The apprehension of the house thus alters from the personal to the social : his drama is the inward one of conscience ; hers , the outward trial by social ordeal . |
| 23 | The ‘ Ulster In Focus ’ films feature local actor B.J. Hogg as Erik , a Viking leader who ingeniously arrives in the 1990s through the screen of a little girl 's computer game . |
| 24 | And on Monday the panel — including doctors , nutritionists , dieticians and beauty experts — arrives in the first of six cities , ready to give confidential FREE advice to suit your individual needs . |
| 25 | In the case of the Vale of Pewsey Fault , however , only minor faulting occurs in the Mesozoic above the subcrop of the thrust , the main growth fault appearing several kilometres to the south , perhaps controlled either by a splay thrust in the hanging wall or by local steepening of the sole thrust at this point . |
| 26 | What the chemical structure of course does determine is the temperature at which the glassy state passes into the rubbery and , if the cross-linking is insufficient to prevent it , further passes from the rubbery to the liquid-like state . |
| 27 | Now that does n't matter whether we 're Christians or not Christians , that is the course of life , that happens to every one of us . |
| 28 | Happens to the best of us . |
| 29 | It happens to the best of us . ’ |
| 30 | No because I think by the end well unless something dramatic happens on the fourth of February which is this Friday next Friday rather . |