Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the legislation , manufacturers can claim a credit of 25 per cent of the market value for each computer they give away to schools . |
| 2 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 3 | a progressive ethos which fitted comfortably with the equal-opportunity aims of GIST ; |
| 4 | The distinctive thing about him which made him a legend in his lifetime and made his biography one of the Methodist best sellers of the century , was an immediate apprehension of the divine glory which issued naturally in leaping , dancing , and cheerful controversy with the world . |
| 5 | He walked through the Blue Boar 's yard and on up the narrow lane which ran directly to the village of Purton , a distance of a quarter of a mile . |
| 6 | In January 1915 a shell struck the base of the dome , toppling the fifteen-foot-high statue which hung horizontally above the town until 1918 , becoming known as The Leaning Virgin . |
| 7 | The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot 's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama . |
| 8 | They are designed to cope with the fact that judicial review actions often raise complex issues of public policy administrative practice which go well beyond the interests of the parties to the judicial review application and of the applicant in particular . |
| 9 | Memory clearly plays some role at all levels of the driving task , however , there is relatively little research which looks directly at drivers ’ memories for driving situations . |
| 10 | There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative . |
| 11 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 12 | Gary Lineker is another top-class striker who clings keenly onto boots he 's enjoying a scoring spell with . |
| 13 | They were Roman Catholics and they brought their own priests , their own life style and a cultural heritage which owed much to Italy . |
| 14 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 15 | But on this case I go directly to my superior , Colonel Yashkin . |
| 16 | This does not have to be the value paired with the summary value for X , although in this instance it happens also to be the value for the other South East . |
| 17 | His body was wiry and tanned and he had a thick crop of black curly hair which looked badly in need of cutting . |
| 18 | Another yacht which went aground near the approaches to the River Crouch managed to refloat before help arrived . |
| 19 | The other still held the wicked-looking Mauser which rested casually beside him , half pointing at me . |
| 20 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 21 | It is notable that despite Rogers 's High Anglicanism he worked harmoniously with the Congregationalist Stead and was actively involved with the interdenominational Browning Hall . |
| 22 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |
| 23 | At the same time food was becoming harder to find as the mammals and birds he might have caught were kept off the moors or in hibernation by the still unthawed snow which lay bleakly below him . |
| 24 | She remained miserably at Little Gidding after Nicholas 's death , but finally , when John died , she hysterically demanded to leave for London immediately after the funeral ; without waiting for the weekly coach she departed uncomfortably in a countryman 's wagon . |
| 25 | Attached to the side of the Convertible is a little electronic pen which behaves rather like a Microsoft-compatible mouse . |
| 26 | He started afresh on this work which appeared privately in 1893 as Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press , Oxford . |
| 27 | There is a lively bar which extends outside under a portico , and where there is music 3 times a week , whilst the rooftop sun terrace is an ideal place to relax . |
| 28 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 29 | Sponsored by the Royal Mint and organised by the British Art Medal Society , around 350 delegates attended the conference at the British Museum which concentrated primarily on the theme of the relationship between medals and drawings . |
| 30 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |