Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we are confirmed in our reservations about this by the results of the regional census study as I noted in my brief commentary N Y three . |
| 2 | Heat the butter in a heavy-based frying pan until it stops foaming , then add the yam slices in a single layer . |
| 3 | Thus , they are unable to calculate the marginal revenue curve accurately or to draw the total revenue curve as we did in Fig. 2.8 . |
| 4 | I never bothered to look it up or ask anybody if that was true , but he 'd say , ‘ I 've got very low blood pressure so it does n't matter how much I drink . ’ |
| 5 | Jockey Greville Starkey was allegedly unseated by an ultrasonic stun gun as he neared the winning post on Ile de Chypre at Royal Ascot last year . |
| 6 | Reconnection takes place at X , converting closed field lines , c , into open field lines , o , which form a rotational field discontinuity where they cross the magnetopause ( dashed line ) . |
| 7 | Sister Clare Lewington , who runs the Royal Free Prostate Laboratory where she helps conduct treatment trials , believes that increasing media coverage of prostate disease is resulting in more self-referrals to her hospital . |
| 8 | It was one of the few remaining to keep an old cinema organ until it closed a few years ago . |
| 9 | The Swiss arrogantly ignored the advent of new electronic watch technology until it became obvious that markets for their mechanical products , believed to be the best in the world , had all but disappeared . |
| 10 | We both went to state primary schools ; we both passed the 11-plus ; we both had local government scholarships — the hon. Gentleman went to a direct grant school while I went to what was then an independent school . |
| 11 | Another popular explanation was offered by the German economist Wagener when he proposed his ‘ law of increasing state actions ’ . |
| 12 | He went on : ‘ He 's a free citizen living where he chooses . |
| 13 | Little learning ( on the part of the user ) is needed to use an on-line recognition system because it seems just like real pen and paper . |
| 14 | In a lightning raid Gorbad moved his army through the ancient Dwarf tunnels and smashed the Broken Tooth tribe before they realised what was happening . |
| 15 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 16 | DOCTORS battled in vain last night to save a British soldier shot when he walked into an IRA ambush as he patrolled North Belfast . |
| 17 | Unfortunately most people have no idea that they have high blood pressure because it does n't actually feel any different . |
| 18 | Elisabetta was asking her something ; it was about the fireworks last year in the city , off the old harbour wall where they had reflected in the sea . |
| 19 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 20 | A carp is quite happy on a high protein diet because it utilises some for tissue repair , construction of its own complex molecules such as enzymes and of course growth by addition of new body protein . |
| 21 | During 1928 Richardson became intrigued about the impact of film on the small English fishing village where she resided . |
| 22 | The inter-village life that resembles an old-world tableau , and the bronzed figure lab-ouring as he had done ‘ since the time of the Pharaohs ’ , present an image of timelessness and changelessness . |
| 23 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 24 | What would happen to his own peaceful , slummocky bachelor existence if he allowed this woman to have her way ? |
| 25 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 26 | The big clubs were watching from the stands at the Manor and Joey could well become a top transfer target if he turns it on like this . |
| 27 | THE CAMERON Toll centre in south-east Edinburgh , the UK 's first seven-day-trading shopping centre when it opened in 1984 , is likely to change hands within the next two weeks , writes Bill Millar . |
| 28 | IT IS A case of home sweet home for jump racing punters ' darling Desert Orchid as he returns to the stables following a life-saving operation . |
| 29 | A recurrent theme in the literature is that the position of business in relation to government differs from that of other interest groups by virtue of the possession by companies of ‘ real ’ power — social decision-making power as it has been termed above . |
| 30 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |