Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The income we receive form legacies is used to support our extensive welfare facilities which include a residential home for the disabled , convalescent homes and sheltered housing . |
2 | And he said that in the daytime you had landmarks to go by . |
3 | When Stravinsky composed The Firebird he used leitmotifs in yet another way . |
4 | ‘ From the park I hear rhythms … |
5 | ‘ From the park I hear rhythms … |
6 | Around the split she created vertebrae and a simple ball-and-socket joint . |
7 | ‘ Before the hurricane we had rainforest everywhere , ’ Anne said . |
8 | During the late 1960s to the mid-1970s she says CND was classified as subversive because it was a ‘ Communist dominated organisation ’ . |
9 | After service in the RAF he became secretary of the Air Line Pilots Association , secretary of the Football Association and , finally chairman of the UK Olympics Committee . |
10 | On the newsreels at the cinema we saw pictures of de Gaulle riding in triumph through the streets , swastikas being torn down , ecstatic Parisiennes in their un-bombed city kissing the troops and giving them flowers . |
11 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
12 | Ron Ranson 's Big Brush Watercolour is full of tips , ideas and techniques for all , whilst for the beginner I recommend Ashley Jackson 's series of six tapes A Brush with Ashley ( £19.99 each from Ashley Jackson Galleries ) and , of course , Alwyn Crawshaw 's marvellously enthusiastic , instructive and wide-ranging series A Brush with Art ( £59.99 for the set of four videos from Teaching Art Ltd ) . |
13 | Commenting on the sentence He saw flight to be impossible , Cotte observes ( p. 71 ) : Ici , pas de perception physique , mais un jugement sur flight , posé avant be impossible , qui lui est attribué au terme d'une réflexion ; to s'impose car la deuxième prédication n'est pas un donné perçu globalement et existant indépendamment de see , mais une construction do nt l'actualité n'est posée qu'en guise de conclusion . |
14 | At lunchtime they pulled into a lay-by for a picnic ; and later in the afternoon they had tea in a transport café where three lorry drivers stared at them , whispered to one another and laughed . |
15 | The local bands used to play for the morning processions , in the afternoon they played selections at the sports and in the evening they would compete among themselves . |
16 | In the afternoon we visit Fort George , an outstanding artillery fortification built soon after the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden to hinder any more armed threats to Hanoverian law and order . |
17 | In the afternoon we had tea in a house full of the most beautiful women . |
18 | then in the afternoon we have pancakes for his pancake races |
19 | During the afternoon it reaches Forces 5 or 6 , sometimes even seven . |
20 | Cos in the afternoon she does catering from the pub and then the evening she just works behind the bar . |
21 | Apart from the question of winning , Nutty kept having nightmares about the money they owed Biddy if she chose to press the debt . |
22 | It 's working extremely well , and the money I get helps with childminding costs ’ . |
23 | Mr Chairman er when we discussed this last time er I expressed the view that in fact er the county council had better things to do I 've not changed my mind erm since but I have been reminded that er when er the Roman Emperors er found ascension in the ranks when Roman Emperors found ascension in the ranks they provided bread and circuses and I have to say that I regard the two notices of motion which were placed in Mr notably fox hunting and this debate on V A T as bread and circuses . |
24 | East and South restores the balance of exhibitions in terms of gender , the type of work it displays , the cities it takes place in and the opportunities it offers to artists . |
25 | If that 's the case you know resources should n't be going into , into that particular industry or there is not a direct economic case apart from to the social costs that they be involved in . |
26 | Following other workers in the field they synthesised porphyrins ( close synthetic cousins of chlorophyll ) bearing quinone units . |
27 | The reasons for belonging into class II may be numerous : you can not formulate the problem , you can not solve the resulting equations analytically , the computer you have access to is not big enough , etc. , etc . |
28 | Our academic staff will have to compete very hard for the research money to continue their activities , while at the same time maintaining the quality of the teaching they offer students . |
29 | Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers . |
30 | In the mirror over the washbasin she applies pancake makeup , lipstick and eyeliner , and combs her hair . |