Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Judge David , 71 , who also sits as an assistant High Court Judge , was describing why the dock of the court was surrounded by bullet proof glass . |
2 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
3 | When iron is released the protein goes through a large conformational change involving domain rotation and exposure of the empty metal-binding site to the solvent . |
4 | Or huge satin ballgown skirts in shocking pink or lilac satin topped with rib-hugging knits for the new dance-in-a-cold-climate look . |
5 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
6 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
7 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
8 | Team captain Linford Christie will lead from the front as he goes for an unprecedented fourth successive 100m crown , while Colin Jackson ( 110m hurdles ) and Eamonn Martin ( 10,000m ) are also selected as defending champions . |
9 | Later , there followed competition wins for the Catholic Apostolic church , Edinburgh ( 1871–3 ) , Edinburgh school board schools ( 1874–7 ) , and Edinburgh University medical schools ( 1874–86 ) . |
10 | Survey formrs for the 1993 Good beer Guide will be dispatched to branches in late October . |
11 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
12 | Writer Stephen Poliakoff has made an exciting cinema debut with ‘ Close My Eyes ’ — the story of an obsessive love that unfolds during a sweltering English summer . |
13 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
14 | There has for a great many years been a link of friendship between the people of lslay , particularly of the Rinns , and Ballycastle in the north of Ireland . |
15 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |
16 | Not even The Smiths , it seems , could surpass the admiration the man in shorts has for the Fab Four … |
17 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
18 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
19 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
20 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
21 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
22 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
24 | Calypso is a specifically Trinidadian musical form , but just as later Jamaican reggae stands as the archetypal Black music , so in this period does calypso . |
25 | ‘ Organization ’ here stands for a separate small company or a self-governed part of a large company . |
26 | I 've yet to soc totally confirm the number of weeks Mrs wants during the first two sessions that 's up to week fourteen when she wants exactly to do the aids . |
27 | Nobody cares about a few thousand Masai . |
28 | The ground resolution of a TM image is such that a pixel has about a 30 m side , which seems appropriate for the scale of analysis used . |
29 | Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments . |
30 | English has about the same lix level as the Nordic languages and this enabled Bjornsson to compare Scandinavian newspapers with those from English-speaking countries . |