Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1989 Shevardnadze had told Izvestiya that several bad foreign policy decisions ( including that in 1979 to intervene in Afghanistan ) had been the result of leaders not consulting a wider circle of views within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Supreme Soviet . |
| 2 | Mr Knapp , general secretary of the Rail , Maritime and Transport Union , visited the marginal seat of York yesterday following an earlier visit to Darlington . |
| 3 | The hollow clatter of his mount 's hooves on the castle drawbridge mingled with the heavy splash of water rapidly filling the ditch . |
| 4 | There was talk of India soon becoming a grain exporter and she discontinued PL480 shipments in 1971 because of shortage of storage capacity . |
| 5 | Initially his management of this crisis had met with high levels of popular approval , but as the conflict dragged on it became a damaging symbol of American weakness and presidential ineptitude with polls clearly revealing the public 's dissatisfaction with Carter 's performance . |
| 6 | Aberdeen took advantage of Hibs not having a league fixture last week , and they did it in style , this spectacular overhead kick from Duncan Shearer clinching a two-nil victory over Dundee United at Pittodrie , which took the Dons to joint top spot in the Premier table , although Hibs now have a game in hand . |
| 7 | Aberdeen took advantage of Hibs not having a league fixture last week , and they did it in style , this spectacular overhead kick from Duncan Shearer clinching a two-nil victory over Dundee United at Pittodrie , which took the Dons to joint top spot in the Premier table , although Hibs now have a game in hand . |
| 8 | This is essential , for to suggest that this is not so , is to destroy any hope of man ever having a God truly appropriate to his needs . |
| 9 | According to the police , however , there was a decline in the level of violence immediately following the signing of the accord . |
| 10 | It is the kind of area where keeping a close eye on the map is almost essential for peace of mind — asking the way could prove difficult , to say the least . |
| 11 | At the time of the evaluation School A had already embarked upon curriculum integration in an integrated studies ( IS ) programme in the first year , curriculum augmentation by the addition to the curriculum of study skills for years 1–5 , and was debating infrastructural integration through the physical relocation of the library in the suite of rooms already accommodating the audio-visual resource centre . |
| 12 | The expansion of the past few years has resulted in the majority of subjects now reaching a size at which they are academically viable in terms of staffing and the portfolio of courses they can offer . |
| 13 | And there wo n't be much change this afternoon , with the full blanket of cloud still shrouding the country . |
| 14 | To ensure that the crisis of February could never be repeated , Pétain employed the equivalent of more than a whole division of men permanently mending the road . |
| 15 | The doctor was called and the defendant provided a specimen of blood which on analysis proved to contain a proportion of alcohol substantially exceeding the statutory limit . |
| 16 | I was horrified to find a notice at the bottom of Ben More stating No Dogs Allowed . |
| 17 | Article 1 sets out its purpose , viz. ‘ to ensure the continuation of farming thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas … ’ |
| 18 | Even if the practice overspends its funds , there is no question of patients not getting the treatment they need . |
| 19 | It held that God is the Creator ex nihilo thus implying a divide rather than a continuum of being between man 's soul and God . |
| 20 | With the tip of her swab she indicated the figure of an infant sliding on the ice with hands trepidatiously grasping a chair . |
| 21 | I 've spoken to every one of the men and we had that constable from Burford here asking a lot of questions . |
| 22 | The book also moves close to a highly critical analysis of science and yet never becomes anti-science , only anti-scientific : Jones 's own delight in physics enthusiastically drawing the sting out of his own criticism . |
| 23 | Thames Valley police say they visited Lady Blandford 's home in Kiddington today following a call but no-one was there . |
| 24 | Thames Valley police say they visited Lady Blandford 's home in Kiddington today following a call but no-one was there . |
| 25 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |
| 26 | Anyway here 's hoping for another 3 points tomorrow 2–1 will do nicely ( Shame about Manchester not getting the Olympics : - ) ) |
| 27 | As the survivors are air-lifted to safety by helicopter , the badly wounded Elias is seen being pursued and shot down by the North Vietnamese , his outstretched arms at the moment of death consciously evoking the Crucifixion . |
| 28 | Slim medium-sized birds of prey , with long , usually narrow wings and tail , long legs , not very stout bill , and wings pointed ( except Marsh Harrier ) , a ruff of feathers often making the face rounded and owl-like . |
| 29 | That 's erm moving along a little bit erm there 's also this business of of what I suppose in other contexts has been called blaming the victim , this business of children somehow inviting the the , if they have actually been abused , it must be because they 've invited it so erm that 's erm . |
| 30 | The hill towns of central Italy witness very obviously to two historical facts : to a continuity of life far surpassing the English towns we have compared with them , and to a love of independence , of a way of life in which turbulence and freedom and constant war were endemic factors . |