Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brooklands Today The circuit 's glory days live on |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 3 | The Fundació 's maintenance costs eat up the lion 's share of government subsidy , and as the programme is expanded the directors hope to cultivate funds for the exhibition and education programmes from sponsorship and patronage . |
| 4 | A GRANT of £40,000 will ensure a firm 's development plans fit in with Middlesbrough council 's planned facelift for the area round the town 's famous Transporter Bridge . |
| 5 | Sounds Like Birmingham — the city 's church bells ring out in an ambitious music festival , to mark Birmingham 's year as UK City of Music ( 021–235 1992 ) . |
| 6 | Take the moment in the ‘ Pantomime ’ from part three where Pan/Daphnis declares his love for Syrinx/Chloé ( fig. 173 : Rattle , track 12 , 0′53″ ) : Abbado 's LSO strings slide around in an appallingly sticky manner here , whereas Rattle 's declaration is whispered , tender and somehow delightfully aware that this is ‘ play ’ within a play ; as is his treatment of the same passage forte a few bars on ( at 1′44″ ) , you can sense Pan 's mock desperation as Syrinx disappears among the reeds — it is a deliberately exaggerated gesture ( back of hand against forehead ? ) and very amusing . |
| 7 | JCI 's property investments date back to its establishment in 1889 . |
| 8 | Although his wife 's chintz chaircovers bring on a certain nausea whenever I am obliged to call . " |
| 9 | First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation . |
| 10 | ICI 's power stations put out only about 1.3 per cent of the UK 's sulphur total and 0.5 per cent of the nitrogen oxide total . |
| 11 | Victim 's family attacks delay over murder trial |
| 12 | The owners are forced to admit honestly that they are having their cats ' sex organs cut out for purely selfish reasons — to make them less restless , noisy and , in the case of toms , less smelly and belligerent in the mating seasons . |
| 13 | Some have expressed doubt that Stevens ' scale types add up to a theory of measurement or , if they do , whether this approach is a useful one for social research as it currently stands . |
| 14 | Both John Lehmann 's books and Ealing Studios ' film posters point up the fact that Minton was working in the last great era of illustration , before graphic means were ousted by photographic . |