Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was UNIP which eventually took control of the first independent government winning , in January 1964 , fifty-five seats to the ANC 's ten . |
| 2 | On the other hand , unlike their predecessors , they were not advocates of single causes , such as temperance or even religious instruction , but instead sought to attract members with a varied programme which consciously mixed recreation with education , welfare , and sometimes church attendance , for a variety of reasons all of which rested on the specificity of youth in relation to age and to class . |
| 3 | Occasional directorial cleverness ( the photo booth scenes ) and a script which mostly keeps faith with the edge of Oscar Hijuelos ' novel make this surprisingly entertaining |
| 4 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 5 | It 's a characterisation which always remains unshaken by the fact that Flaubert loathed the bourgeoisie . |
| 6 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 7 | They described themselves as rusyny , a term which merely indicated descent from the inhabitants of the medieval principality of Rus ' . |
| 8 | From this plinth had , a long time ago , fallen sideways a tall figure which now lay face-down in a puddle , narcissistically gazing at itself . |
| 9 | Taken in connection with the fact that Liverpool is the greatest seaport in the world , that one alone should remain a disorganised prey to designing knaves is one of the strange and unaccountable anomalies which frequently escape notice for a long time but only to be ultimately felt with greater force and overcome with greater resolution " . |
| 10 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |
| 11 | After a recent stroke she now needs help with shopping and heavy housework . |
| 12 | Redland Bricks WE NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF YOUR VISION |
| 13 | Watch the buoy drifting westwards just north of the equator , as it approaches one of the moorings it suddenly changes direction with the current . |
| 14 | But 15 months after his last appearance in the ring he still takes pride in being called a boxer . |
| 15 | Other than in the early stages of a completely new programme it also requires evaluation of existing training , so that evaluation may be as important as identification of needs . |
| 16 | As an act of conciliation , James II soon afterwards , in one of his last acts as monarch , offered Trelawney his much desired See of Exeter . |
| 17 | Apart from relief of intestinal obstruction he also experienced relief of dysphagia that supported the hypothesis that oesophagitis had developed secondary to vomiting in the presence of large bowel obstruction . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is a common observation in experiments of this kind that subjects themselves often express confusion about what they are conscious of . |
| 19 | Thus the dinosaurs themselves probably gained ascendancy in precisely this fashion . |
| 20 | This broad view offers a wider concept of ‘ integration ’ than the narrow educational framework which predominantly confines debate in this area . |
| 21 | They challenged the Home Secretary 's 1983 policies which effectively abolished parole for certain categories of prisoners , but did win the right , with the assistance of the European Commission for Human Rights to be legally represented at prison disciplinary hearings . |
| 22 | Warren began work at Sellafield on the day the UKAEA was formed in 1954 — originally in the R & D branch which later became part of BNFL . |
| 23 | The ideology which both constitutes existence for the individual and imposes social relations upon her is mediated through the culture : |
| 24 | Smaller groups which also gained representation in the Federal Assembly were ( i ) the Movement for Self-governing Democracy-Society for Moravia and Silesia ( MSD-SMS ) , which sought the restoration of separate government for the historic territory of Moravia-Silesia ; ( ii ) the Slovak National Party , demanding total internal autonomy for Slovakia , favouring the retention of links with Prague only in foreign affairs and defence ( although with separate representation abroad for Slovakia ) , and seen by many as basically hostile to the Czechs and to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia ; and ( iii ) Coexistence ( also known by its Hungarian name Egyutteles ) , a coalition of the Hungarian , Polish and other minority nationalities , which formed an electoral alliance with the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement , and polled heavily among the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia . |
| 25 | However , while I was in hospital , I had seen a boy I vaguely knew die of leukemia in the bed opposite me . |
| 26 | Yet another type of formal relation between sentences — and perhaps the most apparent — is provided by those words and phrases which explicitly draw attention to the type of relationship which exists between one sentence or clause and another . |
| 27 | Mr Lindsay was worried that the lone TOPP students in some regional offices might feel isolated , and that many companies which initially showed enthusiasm for the idea have now cooled off . |
| 28 | But you also find disappointing examples of companies which still perceive marketing to be all to do with promotion and little to do with profits . |
| 29 | A major technical worry about the PWR design was what would happen if a leak should occur in the high-pressure water-cooling circuit which constantly withdraws heat from the reactor core . |
| 30 | John Jackson , chairman of Leeds-based Centaur which also owns Alexandre in Powlett Road , Hartlepool , said in a recent newspaper article the policy would cost thousands of jobs . |