Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR Allen Sheppard , chairman of Grand Metropolitan , is taking direct action against the Financial Times for its controversial support of Labour on polling day . |
| 2 | Bees recognise the Sun by an equally innate criterion — its low ratio of ultraviolet to visible light — so that a dim , 10 degree , triangular , highly polarised , green object against a dark background is just as acceptable as the actual , intensely bright ½ degree , circular , unpolarised white Sun which the bees see almost every day in the normal sky . |
| 3 | YWAM do not want to discontinue their current policy of encouraging in every way current initiatives for church planting and feeding people in to help such work . |
| 4 | In 1957 , for example , when Britain decided to switch the basis of its defensive system from conventional to nuclear arms , it had to negotiate through WEU to secure a reduction in the level of its troop commitment on the continent . |
| 5 | Thomas Hardy 's story of the death of poor little Fanny Robin and her new-born child in Far From the Madding Crowd is etched on the memory of all who have read it . |
| 6 | My sister Gillian , who lives round the corner , always drops her young son off early in the morning because she works shifts . |
| 7 | He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half . |
| 8 | Edwards has alleged that Knighton breached the terms of a confidentiality clause in his agreement to sell his controlling stake in United for £10m . |
| 9 | Toby was doing his own brand of gaping by this time . |
| 10 | The essay evokes the second phase of his life between his fifteen months at St. Paul 's School from January 1894 until Easter 1895 , his courtship and marriage to Helen Noble , his three years at Oxford from October 1897 to June 1900 , his year as a poverty stricken journalist in London , and his determined move to Bearsted in September in 1901 : |
| 11 | Both showed Mr. Mates well ahead of his main challenger with Labour in a clear third but they also showed that over a quarter of the electorate were undecided . |
| 12 | What better way to liven up these lazy summer days than a little trade-up rumpus between Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 13 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |