Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is my intention to prepare a further paper taking account of the comments received , and then to invite interested parties to meet in order to discuss the way forward . |
| 2 | ( Although it could turn into ‘ My lad played a blinder for St Noggins U13 B team yesterday ’ I suppose . ) |
| 3 | For the first time ever , my pride got the better of me and I desperately looked round for some means of defending myself . |
| 4 | ‘ I know I 'm no angel , Robyn , I know my temper gets the better of me at times , but you must understand the pressure that I was under too . |
| 5 | A few minutes later , when Nelly was preoccupied , I 'm sorry to say my cowardice got the better of me and I crept out of the room , down the stairs and ran off home . |
| 6 | I feebly pushed more wood on my fire to make a brighter blaze . |
| 7 | I quickened my step to reach the quieter part of the hall , where it always seemed darker . |
| 8 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 9 | I heard the clock strike each successive hour , and I fear my mother fared no better , for she had promised to wake her ( in ordinary circumstances ) sleepy-headed son . |
| 10 | Having failed to make this distinction they are free to give their ministry calling a higher priority than their family . |
| 11 | Kathleen flushed and was angry with herself for it and for allowing her sister to get the better of her again . |
| 12 | If it set too high , then performance will be poor since it will be completing its workload using a higher number of smaller portions than necessary . |
| 13 | To date , the Oxfordshire scheme has at best only partially met its intention to promote a greater ( contractual ) accountability in schools . |
| 14 | Further and highly satisfactory was an agreement that , having already released 23 detainees since the end of March 1971 , the Rhodesian government would state their intention to release a further 31 detainees out of 93 as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made and that there would be a new special review of the cases of all detainees . |
| 15 | To its south lies the smaller Hatfield Moor , still quite large enough to get lost in . |
| 16 | The Trust 's share of Wellcome represents 95 per cent of its income-producing to seek a larger and more broadly based income . |
| 17 | Herein lay a grave source of weakness for the attempt of elected politicians to assert their right to take a greater share of power . |
| 18 | Traditionally , county councils have been more preservationist-minded than many of their local district councils , often because their membership showed a higher proportion of large landowners who had a keen interest in preserving the countryside , even before concern for the environment became a fashionable issue . |
| 19 | Primitive art may have confirmed them in their desire to achieve a greater directness of expression , but they remained interested in it from a visual point of view . |
| 20 | And on 2 March their confidence received a further boost with the news that the DOE had approved funding of their research programme . |
| 21 | Yet even hedonists can value short-term pain as an appropriate means to long-term pleasure , and utilitarians can accept as appropriate individual suffering if its outcome benefits a larger number . |
| 22 | The government 's approval of a £30 million road tunnel under the Devil 's Punchbowl , an important Surrey wildlife site and beauty spot , has fuelled controversy over its refusal to spend a smaller amount on a similar scheme in Oxleas Wood , London , which is scheduled for destruction by a new motorway [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 23 | Hay that has lost its colour has a lower nutritional value and is less palatable . |
| 24 | Young and Willmott 's detailed empirical study found that in poorer and older families there was still a considerable domestic division of labour but that , nonetheless , the great majority of married people in their sample formed the newer symmetrical family ( p. 94 ) : |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'll get in touch with you as soon as he can , ’ said Melissa , trying not to allow her irritation to get the better of her . |
| 26 | Staff have been given the effective reward of being valued through a positive acknowledgement of their competence providing a greater sense of identity and improving self-esteem . |
| 27 | Pottery beneath its wall suggests a later second- or third-century date . |
| 28 | Research has found that in sums of the ‘ x+y ’ type , most children at some stage in their development identify the larger of the two numbers and then add on the smaller by counting on in steps of one ( eg 3+7=7+1 , 8+1 , 9+1 , 10 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Open them , Donna , ’ said Julie , her impatience getting the better of her . |
| 30 | To hell with her resolution not to let her temper get the better of her . |