Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 2 | I think you would be interested if I take you through the Severn Tunnel . |
| 3 | Although I 'm strongly against what can only be described as the ‘ bastardisation ’ of a property , a little out-of-keeping decor is often unavoidable unless you restrict yourself to a very limited range of choice . |
| 4 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 5 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
| 6 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 7 | That way the syncro system will be pumping power to all four bits of rubber as you throw yourself into corners with all the wild confidence of a kiddie in a bouncy castle . |
| 8 | Our lives become richer and more free as we give ourselves to God and to of hers . |
| 9 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 10 | It 's dangerous if you leave it on all night — you can start a fire and that if you ai n't careful . |
| 11 | ‘ People should remember alcohol is dangerous whether you drink it in the pub or at the Christmas carol concert . ’ |
| 12 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 13 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 14 | It is most unlikely , said Taylor , that metal crystals are really as perfect as we suppose them to be when we do sums about their strength . |
| 15 | The numbers are unbelievable until we see them for ourselves . |
| 16 | Is it just , well I was j er I mean I find it hard cos I suppose everybody to some extent , in the , the extent to which they live in their own house , |
| 17 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 18 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 19 | You 're lucky if you survive them at all . ’ |
| 20 | In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals . |
| 21 | You 'll have spent at least one day testing everything to see if it 's okay before you show it to the public . |
| 22 | ‘ It sounds pretty cold-hearted when you put it like that , but I love that little girl . |
| 23 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 24 | South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward . |
| 25 | But the reds and browns are not sure if they want him on their side . |
| 26 | That does not render it inedible if you cook it within a few hours — or freeze it immediately . |
| 27 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
| 28 | Funnily enough a sing a double wardrobe which is four foot wide and eighteen inches deep if you split it in half , as the old ones could be , you end up with two pieces two feet and they actually can go up the stairs cos you can just get them underneath . |
| 29 | The mathematicians guarantee that all will be well provided we restrict ourselves to operators which satisfy the condition which they call being hermitean . |
| 30 | Surely the hears , minds and souls of people who love the hills are potent forces for good because they see themselves as guardians of these beautiful places ? |