Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 2 | He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world . |
| 3 | Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material . |
| 4 | Dahl argued that power is fragmented between the different groups involved in the decision-making process since different groups got their way on different issues . |
| 5 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 6 | This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation . |
| 7 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 8 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 9 | Many otaku make their living in technology-related fields , as software designers , computer engineers , computer graphic artists or computer magazine editors . |
| 10 | Ripa di Meana 's idea would , however , require an international treaty whereby Italy would relinquish sovereignty over the town in exchange for the other member states financing its revitalisation . |
| 11 | The French fabliau in England may take one of two basic forms : fabliaux composed in Old French in France of which copies made their way to England , and fabliaux composed ( in most cases re-composed ) in the Anglo-Norman dialect , presumably in England . |
| 12 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 13 | Miss Honey met her gaze without flinching . |
| 14 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 15 | Sophie passed her hand over her forehead , then began to unfasten the drip . |
| 16 | Heat struck through the thin soles of her sandals as , joining the straggling file of other passengers , Luce made her way across the tarmac towards the rather unprepossessing terminal building . |
| 17 | The story of how the convalescent David Stirling got his proposal into the hands of General Auchinleck was told to the journalist Virginia Cowles in 1958 , and is based on Stirling 's memory of events not too long after they occurred . |
| 18 | It may make the less good auditor concentrate his mind because he will feel that if he 's got a duty , he will have to do it , in which case it will be of benefit to the body politic . ’ |
| 19 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 20 | Luce checked her first impulse , which had been to tear herself free . |
| 21 | Legislators and civil servants in the US enjoy a degree of independence and freedom to go their own way that is unheard of in the UK . |
| 22 | It was biting , but she was censoring herself instinctively now , because Florian 's personality was truly one-dimensional , albeit in another way , and the only thing she had ever given him was the degree of tolerance his peculiar genius made his due . |
| 23 | I sha n't care when I want to hear my Pamela read her French and Latin lessons to seek my beloved in the nursery or find her engrossed in baby offices . |
| 24 | Rivals pointed to the 35 p.c. to 44 p.c. market share chalked up by Ford in the closing days of March to support their arguments . |
| 25 | Current EC research workplans in biotechnology ( See below ) offer the possibility of collaborative training and research programmes between institutions , and this would offer our own staff the opportunity of acquiring the necessary information and expertise to plan our own future requirements in this field . |
| 26 | Wildlife is abundant in fish , ducks and water hens , and it is a great joy in springtime to see mother ducks bring their families down the steep church embankment , across the road and onto the pond . |
| 27 | Some writers feel that there is much more scope for local authorities using their wide powers to charge to enhance their revenue ( Blair , 1991 ) . |
| 28 | John Saville , chairman of the J Saville Gordon parent group , said there was nothing to prevent the local authorities using their compulsory purchase powers to acquire the site if they so wished . |
| 29 | Our view is that we should let local authorities make their own decisions about their priorities . |
| 30 | Makes a change from the caterpillar eating our flowers ! |