Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the specific physiological mechanism which they proposed to explain the effect , based on Livingston 's ( 1967a , 1967b ) ‘ Now Print ! ’ theory has attracted little support , the basic demonstration of a surprising ability to report such memories even after considerable delays attracted a great deal of interest and has now been found in a large number of studies ( e.g. Bohannon , 1988 ; Christianson , 1989 ; Colegrove , 1899 ; McCloskey , Wible & Cohen , 1988 ; Pillemer , 1984 ; Winograd & Killinger , 1983 ; Yarmey & Bull , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Whirling like a miniature tornado past Lucenzo 's menacing bulk , she persuaded her legs to stop wobbling by sheer force of will and strode angrily over the deep snow to the nearest bus stop . |
| 3 | Robyn winced at the mention of food and swallowed gingerly . |
| 4 | The proposed legislation also failed to commit the authorities to a definite programme of school-building and put forward an extremely unambitious curriculum . |
| 5 | I wasted no time in entering the assembly area and rejoining the cheerful gang of visitors , buoyed up by the welcome infusion of champagne and looking forward to more . |
| 6 | It is joined here by Kingsdale Beck which now gets an infusion of energy and turns away to earn acclaim as a principal contributor to the charm of the walk around the Ingleton waterfalls . |
| 7 | Mr Johnston said : ‘ He was asked to write an essay on the future of coal and wrote simply ‘ Smoke ! ’ . |
| 8 | But in truth she 'd found it difficult to sustain her patronising English mix of prurience and pity very long . |
| 9 | This impulse is figured partly in geographical terms ( as Jerome Klinkowitz has noted , ‘ Out moves from the clutter and hassle of the East to the pure space of an empty California beach ’ ( Klinkowitz 1980 : 137 ) ) and partly by shifting the names of the characters and the nature of their situations , so that travelling ceases to be a realistic indication of movement and becomes instead a metaphor for textual purpose . |
| 10 | Athelstan returned to the table , rolled up the piece of parchment and put away his quills and inkhorn . |
| 11 | Get a small piece of paper and hold there as you do it . |
| 12 | Robyn picked up the piece of paper and tried hard not to believe he had made an effort . |
| 13 | In some of his tracts he is outspokenly hostile to philosophy as mother of heresy , strident in his insistence that for a true believer everything is decided by the authority of the apostolic rule of faith and scripture so that further enquiries are superfluous . |
| 14 | The system has been continuously discussed and amended in the light of experience and has also thereby provided a most valuable focus for staff support and development . |
| 15 | Lorraine did her doctorate work in the Department of Geography and has since been involved in the Department of Environmental Health and Housing on designing a hazard index for litter ( sponsored by the Tidy Britain Group ) . |
| 16 | Wonderful winter-flowering pansies provide the essential riot of colour and bloom relentlessly from late autumn through to the beginning of summer . |
| 17 | the illusion of progress and takes away thought |
| 18 | Forty societies refused to make acceptance of the Code a condition of membership and broke away to form their own rival society , but the two were merged again in 1940 . |
| 19 | If the all-provident mother of the hunter-gatherer societies had been lost with the coming of agriculture and weaning so that a divine substitute had had to be found in heaven in the shape of the mother-goddess , then eventually a real , human substitute had been found on earth in the person of the all-powerful emperor or king whose granaries could supply in reality what the opulent breasts of the divine mother promised in phantasy — namely , reassurance against oral anxiety and the fear of hunger . |
| 20 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 21 | At the top of the pillar , the 26-year-old guide picked up a new sack of food and popped across to the Freney face to solo a new direct version of the Central Pillar ( Chris Bonington 's finest hour ) . |
| 22 | I varied the audacity of these to ensure the change of pace and tone so essential to a good negotiating table . |
| 23 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 24 | A Labour back-bench bill to widen freedom of information and do away with unnecessary secrecy was given an unopposed second reading in the Commons today . |
| 25 | What can be offered to help them provide the expected level of care and to feel more secure in their parenting role ? |
| 26 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 27 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 28 | Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger … |
| 29 | Up at the old house , Donald kicked the kettle in a spasm of impatience and said angrily to Jean , ‘ Why are you putting me in a vice ? |
| 30 | He looked up when I came in , gave a kind of cry and ran upstairs and into the study . |