Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 32 | ‘ I 've chased Horan and Little on more than one occasion and have yet to get my hands on them , ’ said Gibbs , who figured in the 63–6 Welsh defeat in Brisbane and then the 38–3 World Cup loss . |
| 33 | A purchaser is only likely to avoid liability for dismissals before completion if either the dismissal was for a reason unconnected with the sale ( eg gross misconduct ) or the dismissal was sufficiently far in advance of completion that it was not connected with the sale . |
| 34 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |
| 35 | The gentlemen 's titles did not appear on the hand-painted signs at the foot of the staircase ; in certain other Oxford colleges such practices were countenanced ; not , Mr Bullins thought proudly , in Magdalen , which , in his opinion , was not only the most beautiful college in Oxford but also the only one of any consequence . |
| 36 | But any form of ‘ editing ’ the file card in this way must introduce some small risk of giving an impression that is slightly awry , and we would prefer the UAPT practice of invariably giving the ‘ black ’ information entirely unabridged , although recognising the savings in time and therefore the cost that the CD procedure must allow . |
| 37 | Alan got a message for you all the stewards and secretaries within Pilkingtons and also the A E U , M S F and the T & G thanks very much for the initiative you 've in getting us all together and the initiative you 've took in getting us part of the European set-up company Pilkingtons , at this present time are very negative . |
| 38 | At about then I took note that there were n't in fact any other boats moving on the river and I remembered that often the locks closed for maintenance in winter and maybe the lock-keeper would have gone shopping … |
| 39 | Meanwhile Kubota Corp — majority shareholder in Stardent and now a 30% stakeholder in AVS Inc — is left with Stardent 's MIPS R3000-based Titan series of high-end graphics workstations . |
| 40 | With open-loop control even lightly-loaded motors can rarely operate at speeds of more than 10000 steps per second and therefore the microprocessor need only issue a step command every 0.1 ms . |
| 41 | It is legal in Britain to inflict the indefensible cruelty of hounding defenceless animals to death and therefore the terrible stain of this brutality is on all our hands . |
| 42 | The production of a single cost figure per contract or even a very limited split of , say , labour , materials and expenses , is not particularly helpful to the surveying or management staff , although of course better than nothing . |
| 43 | In the weeks before the meeting , the Daily Worker published plans for a five-column march on Olympia and even a map to show its readers how to get there . |
| 44 | The base split from side to side but fortunately the water only seeped out . |
| 45 | Membership of the Town Boys represents the last promotion in the career of the football fan at Oxford and only the most committed are eligible . |
| 46 | It was done with a scornful glance at Keith and then a grin of agreement at Mrs Hollins . |
| 47 | ‘ I find light meals best — a good lunch , then a cup of tea at teatime and then a light supper . |
| 48 | A child born abroad will be a British citizen by descent if either the father or mother was born or adopted in the United Kingdom or acquired citizenship by registration or naturalization . |
| 49 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 50 | To me , northwest Africa is part of Europe and either the division is farther south or , if they must be sailing on different plates , then those plates were very close together long before the Alpine convulsions . |
| 51 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 52 | Iehmarc may have been Echmarcach Ragnallson , later king of Dublin ( see below ) , but who possibly in 1031 controlled part of Galloway and maybe the Isle of Man . |
| 53 | which not only ignored but almost denied the existence of women and therefore the importance of love and sex between men and women in human life . |
| 54 | The opening of the Springfield Works not only marked a change of base but also a change of direction for the company . |
| 55 | What was new was that skinheads appeared to be not a continuation of a trend , but a change of emphasis or even a reversal in the development of style . |
| 56 | Speyside , Orkney , North Yorkshire and Derbyshire all had more than half proposing a change of enterprise and yet the climate , soil type or terrain severely restricted the choice . |
| 57 | In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction . |
| 58 | Our eyes and minds have felt the need for change , not only a change of view but also the psychological relief and stimulus of thinking of something new . |
| 59 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 60 | They tested a set of assumptions about the attitudes of investors and hence the impact of the P/E ratio . |