Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact possible to take different views about what genuinely constitutes full motion and we address this more fully in section 3.20 below , when we discuss compact disc interactive ( CD-I ) technology . |
| 2 | ‘ Old fashioned shops like ours still have half-day closing . |
| 3 | The Basque Coast starts off flat , at the top end , with sand and pine trees , then acquires first , shapely beaches prized by athletic visitors for their peculiarly surf able Atlantic waves , and next , low but spectacular rocks and promontories , which are at their best along the curious Corniche Basque , to end in the handsome bay of Hendaye-Plage . |
| 4 | The limitations of our normally functioning sensory apparatus enable us to experience a minute fragment of actual ‘ reality ’ . |
| 5 | Holmes was addressing those who traced their roots back to the Puritans : ‘ We must not forget that our fathers were exiles from their dearly loved native land , driven by causes which no longer exist . |
| 6 | There was tenderness , there was compassion , there was kindness , there was love , though obscured at times by the harder angles of his constantly changing Cancerian character . |
| 7 | The happiest Boks at yesterday 's training session were 34-year-old veterans Botha and Danie Gerber , both playing superbly 12 years into their hugely interrupted international careers . |
| 8 | Afterwards he went by way of St Basil 's Terrace , looking as Sophia had done earlier at the newly done up houses with their prettily painted front doors and rather self-conscious window-boxes and bay trees in tubs , when a woman 's voice called out behind him , ‘ Good evening vicar — been getting fish for pussy ? ’ |
| 9 | Disclosing things about yourself often encourages other people to open up too . |
| 10 | A range of issues recur throughout Genet 's book ; I concentrate on masculinity only because of its problematic centrality in contemporary considerations of race , homosexuality , and gender more generally , and because Genet 's reflections on it often make other recent writing about it seem by comparison the simplistic and reductive pronouncements of a banal gender politics . |
| 11 | I was , however , able to reassure her on this point , as I could see no prospects of my ever getting close enough to any American for him to even ask my name , never mind ask me to marry him — and in the 1940 's you did have to wait to be asked . |
| 12 | The mean amplitude at each level was then plotted on charts where the 90th and 10th percentiles of pressure at these levels in our previously defined normal volunteers were represented by horizontal boxes ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 13 | Bits of it actually sound accidental , but that only adds to the shocking brilliance of a record that allowed rock a way into the previously terrifying world of dance , and that showed dance a way forward too . |
| 14 | I occasionally receive a copy of the NEW , most numbers of which evidently get lost on the way . |
| 15 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 16 | Patients paid some money , and brought a sacrificial animal ( the skin and shoulder of which would be kept subsequently by the priests ) , and slept in male or female dormitories on the hides of their freshly killed sacrificial rams . |
| 17 | The great beeches towered up towards the sky , their grey smooth trunks like the columns of an abbey church , and about their roots short grasses grew , gay with harebells and scentless violets among which indolently flitted small butterflies more blue than the flowers . |