Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olazabal 's dislike of US Open courses and their preparation is well-known , but he said today : ‘ This course offers us much more hope than in previous years . ’ |
| 2 | The labour force realises its relatively privileged position and , therefore , does not embark on serious attempts at collective bargaining . |
| 3 | Obviously mere talent gets you nowhere these days . |
| 4 | In these superb light conditions its deeply forked tail glowed a rich chestnut . |
| 5 | as the lady says its not real life , erm |
| 6 | Note that the actor window tells you how many cels the current actor is animated over . |
| 7 | The pressure gauge tells you how much air you have left in your tank prices range from 30 pounds upwards . |
| 8 | The extra 136 kilos in the stretched long-nose type gives it both much-needed freight and luggage space as well as making the aircraft easier to balance — always an interesting exercise in pre-flight planning for the pilots . |
| 9 | And its exceptional flexibility makes it equally comfortable coping with the scorching heat generated by modern engines . |
| 10 | Babur flashes his impossibly white teeth . |
| 11 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |
| 12 | For the rest of Europe this assertion of German nationhood has its unavoidably bitter dimension . |
| 13 | It is in respect of property and contract that the incapacity of infancy has its most general operation . |
| 14 | Conventionalism provides one apparently attractive answer to that question . |
| 15 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 16 | in her pivotal essay Woman , Art and Power has described how in : ‘ This complex of beliefs involving male power , naked models and the creation of art receives its most perfect rationalisation in the ever-popular representation of the Pygmalion legend : stone beauty made worm by the worming glow of masculine desire ’ . |
| 17 | However that may be , this hypocrisy has one profoundly disturbing consequence . |
| 18 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |
| 19 | Moreover , the high salinity of sea water makes it likely that salt is an active weathering agent in coastal environments ( see Section 13.3.1.1 ) . |
| 20 | But anger has its perfectly acceptable face . |
| 21 | If the solitude and beauty of the area grabs you then these routes are just a taster of what the west has to offer , and no doubt you 'll return . |
| 22 | She is even able to understand the apparently irrational , masochistic aspects of women 's psychology , by drawing on de Beauvoir 's implicitly psychoanalytic account of its power : ‘ Woman assumes her most delicious triumphs by first falling into the depths of abjection … the little girl takes delight in a masochism that promises supreme conquests ’ ( de Beauvoir , quoted in Rowbotham 1973 : 42 ) . |
| 23 | The first knockdown shows us how one Rokkaku can bear down on another , its cross-spars pushing at the other 's sail in its vulnerable side where shape is vital . |
| 24 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 25 | This memorial exhibition combines his explosively colourful paintings with sculptures by his father , Jacob Epstein , and has been organised , following his mother 's death , by her friend , Beth Lipkin , to whom most of the pictures were left . |
| 26 | One authority gives it as 310 light-years , another as 1,400 . |
| 27 | Matinee gives you over 30 clips of video to edit and view . |
| 28 | At first a beginner learns this kick in a one-two-three rhythm , but as proficiency increases the whole movement becomes one smoothly flowing action . |
| 29 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 30 | They can look the up by title , by the title of the book , as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library or whether or they 're all on loan . |