Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 2 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 3 | In other countries too , inflation will be a worry right at the start of the coming upswing . |
| 4 | incentive to get us up this last steep pull on to the summit of Beinn Ghlas . |
| 5 | The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight . |
| 6 | Those grant-maintained schools are using that money effectively for the benefit of the school and , more importantly , of improving education for the pupils attending those schools . |
| 7 | Right , so it 's one I want to , I did n't get time to do last week was to tell you where you specify that you want to perform a Chow test , right , and the computer will generate both of both of Chow 's tests with one , the first one is where we 've got enough observations in each sub sample , right , to estimate the regression , right , however , you may , you may detect and figure there is some structural change right at the end of your er sample of observations or alternatively right at the beginning . |
| 8 | Increasingly , then , the Conservative party is becoming a party that draws its support predominantly from the South of England , from the rural and suburban constituencies , and from home-owners . |
| 9 | In Market Weighton , East Yorkshire , there is a markstone right in the middle of the town , opposite the church , and in Pembridge , Herefordshire , Watkins found a markstone next to the market house . |
| 10 | Then , spontaneously , Changez pushed himself up and danced with them , lifting each foot ponderously from the floor like a performing elephant , and sticking his elbows out as if he 'd been asked , in a drama class , to be a flamingo . |
| 11 | It would also be beneficial to extend the cycle lane right up The Mound to the top of Bank St. , for uphill cyclists , even if the lane has to be a narrower one , since this would increase protection against turning traffic . |
| 12 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |
| 13 | Several of the group who took part most from the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education course are handicapped in some way . |
| 14 | Just hook the bucket on to the end of the rope and lower it down , but do n't fall in yourself . ’ |
| 15 | Matilda pulled up the rope and hooked the handle of the bucket on to the end of it . |
| 16 | But Fael-Inis was concentrating on spreading honey on to a wedge of bread , and seemed not to notice . |
| 17 | Smiling broadly to herself she closed the heavy wooden door behind us and fastened the little chain latch on to a nail on the adjacent door . |
| 18 | And meant only for summer and early autumn ; no heating apparatus except the open fires , and a kitchen rather on a par for mod cons with my cottage at Otters ' Bay . |
| 19 | Many of the costs of running a state-of-the-art landfill or incinerator change little with the scale of the operation . |
| 20 | They just put the bit on about the hall after . |
| 21 | There , on its otherwise camouflaged skin , appears a pair of huge staring eye-spots that make its rear view look remarkably like the face of a predatory bird . |
| 22 | Spectators are advised to leave their cars in the multi-story car park right in the centre of Abingdon ; they then have a short walk along Park Road to the Amey Hall . |
| 23 | One type of reservation relates to the class nature of adoption : it is thought that the observed beneficial effects of adoption stem mostly from the tendency of adoption to move children to a somewhat higher social class than that of the family of origin . |
| 24 | Being allocated the entire dark continent as a sales territory for one man is a bit like being asked to cut the grass at Hampden Park single-handedly with a pair of nail scissors . |
| 25 | Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world . |
| 26 | Because of the Repeater Hand Gun 's innovative construction and tendency to jam , a roll of a 1 is always a miss regardless of the BS of the firer or any modifiers to hit . |
| 27 | Because of its innovative construction and tendency to jam , a roll of a 1 is always a miss regardless of the BS of the firer or any modifiers to hit . |
| 28 | A technique for compiling such dictionaries is described , and the assessment of this technique together with the nature of domains in general are also suggested as areas for further research . |
| 29 | Then Connie would move into the sanatorium along with a lot of legal talent he had lined up to look after his interests — and Connie 's , too , of course — and I 'd head for home with my five hundred . ’ |
| 30 | This freedom together with a diet of high cereal and whole wheat , and the JS combination of traditional methods of maturation with modern chilling and packaging methods , produce these full flavoured , succulent and tender chickens . |