Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Republic can only pursue legal action through its duly appointed executive , namely the interim government which instructs me . |
| 2 | Silent now , Ybreska fell into a carefully measured pace , without even realizing the strange irony of his suddenly changed mood . |
| 3 | Perhaps that was why every cell of her normally controlled body seemed to be on red alert in Rune Christensen 's presence . |
| 4 | Extensive use is made here in this chapter of his posthumously published work ( Bulmer , 1986 ) because it has so much to say of immediate and striking significance to our theme . |
| 5 | No , listen , we 'll say it 's north , say north side of I sometimes losing direction in this country . |
| 6 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 7 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 8 | Dawn is well qualified for her new role — before joining Courtaulds she was involved in two car fires and came to the aid of her partially sighted father when a fire broke out in his kitchen . |
| 9 | From the evidence in city museums , artists among the early settlers brought their European attitudes with them too and , failing the innocent eye test , also failed to interpret the essence of their new found environment , while those who subsequently practised the new styles of modern art in the early decades of this century did so with the same little effect . |
| 10 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 11 | He also gained popularity with national schoolteachers by his official recognition of their newly formed union — the Irish National Teachers ' Organization . |
| 12 | In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century . |
| 13 | It 's all here , so why not spend that holiday at home this year and give a boost to our much needed travel industry and tourism industry in this country ? |
| 14 | Whatever Isabella 's private intentions may have been , the deposition of the king had so far formed no part of her publicly declared programme , which amounted to little more than the removal of the Despensers . |
| 15 | The best hope of it actually achieving power would be a prolonged demonstration by the Conservative Government that it can not run the economy competently . |
| 16 | Both the problem and the interest of the sociology of culture can be seen at once in the difficulty of its apparently defining term : ‘ culture ’ . |
| 17 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 does not apply to the 1984 Act as it only has application to common law duties and the statutory duty under the 1957 Act . |
| 18 | Optimism must always be tinged with anxiety for it not to become braggartism , and there were enough instances in the past , mainly at Olympic Games where British flames of hope had turned to ashes of despair , for a note of caution to be sounded . |
| 19 | If luxuriating in a country house hotel or having fun on a farm or enjoying a weekend by the sea appeals to you , why not get hold of our Where to Stay accommodation guides . |
| 20 | An ant-lion larva lies in wait at the bottom of its specially constructed pit . |
| 21 | Throughout the period , the District appeared to develop a policy of containment of its gradually mounting deficit and became habituated to an existence of permanent indebtedness . |
| 22 | Photographs of a mother and her three daughters , aged 10 , seven and three , have been etched in the marble of one almost finished grave . |
| 23 | Its editor is Jaynie Anderson , whose biography of Morelli , along with a wealth of her newly discovered material on him , is included . |
| 24 | Everything happened so quickly that I have no very clear recollection of what actually took place . |
| 25 | For her own part , there was never any question of her not studying science and she is the best sort of role model because of her enthusiasm : ‘ Just finding out what makes things work . |
| 26 | The family is an important unit of consumption with its steadily rising demand for consumer durables such as washing machines , videos and microwaves . |
| 27 | Pleased with the insouciance in her carefully modulated tone , Gina gave him a polished smile . |
| 28 | ‘ Every match for us now has significance if we want that UEFA place , ’ said Joe Jordan . |
| 29 | He was Arthur Wharton , a Jamaican about whom little recorded evidence exists apart from his sprinting achievements . |
| 30 | Governors will have a clearer picture of what actually takes place in school . |