Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viridian and phthalocyanine green come into their own when a particularly transparent mid green is required . |
| 2 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 3 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 4 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 5 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 6 | Auditors will no longer be allowed to audit specialist valuations — such as actuarial valuations and valuations of brands , intellectual property and other intangible assets — that have been prepared by their own or an associated practice in the UK or abroad . |
| 7 | In fact , the chief restriction on British politicians is imposed by their own and the community 's view of what is proper and desirable and if the former , supported by some public opinion , are convinced that changes are needed , there is every reason to think that effective reforms can be carried through . |
| 8 | He would make occasional forays into the United States or films , but Lynn 's only real home was in Aldwych farces as part of the Travers team which ran triumphantly into the 1930s , and he stayed with them , creating and recreating the role of the silly ass forever working his way out of impossible situations , often armed with nothing more than the famous monocle , a daft grin , and an apparently inexhaustible ability to triumph over adversity by the sheer idiocy of his own imagination . |
| 9 | The report , from a correspondent in Bangkok , stated that this was the first occasion since the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] that Vietnamese forces had been used in anything more than an emergency capacity . |
| 10 | Used on their own as a research method they have limitations but , within these , much can be achieved . |
| 11 | With his clammy hands and his face furrowed at nothing more than the flap of pigeons ' wings or the sight of a meter maid , he seemed to be waiting for it . |
| 12 | One developed into nothing more than a simple ball of cells with no gut at all , the other into a more or less normal larva . |
| 13 | The Open University freaks have taken so many short cuts that they are rudderless ships on that same deep ocean which you , most probably , crossed with nothing more than a paddle or ragged bit of sail under a stiff breeze and with a lively brain . |
| 14 | However , once you have the hang of it , you will find that you are able to free yourself in a matter of seconds and still leave the ropes tied round your own and an accomplice 's wrists . |
| 15 | The music of Chopin , the poetry of Mickiewicz — both produced in exile — and the paintings of Jan Matejko are all powerful emotional and political responses to the reality of life in a country whose people were denied their own forms of government , and whose culture was relegated to nothing more than a set of quaint country ways . |
| 16 | I think of the eclectic women on baby blankets , bare beside picnic baskets and one another , pleased to be sated by nothing more than a book and a cigarette , a glass of cider and a chat or a piece of quiche , meatless , of course . |
| 17 | But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level . |
| 18 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 19 | Recently published Dataquest figures indicate a potential market size of $300 million by 1990 but with less that a year of history to go on this can hardly be taken as anything more than a guideline . |
| 20 | In an anonymous introduction , the editor of De revolutionibus , Andreas Osiander , had implied that the earth 's motion was to be construed as nothing more than a convenient hypothesis . |
| 21 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 22 | Describes prisoners about to be transported to prison from a police station , in particular two younger sisters , the elder hardened to it all but the younger one bitterly distressed . |
| 23 | If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness . |
| 24 | Nothing takes anything away from Mario 's championship , which was solidly built and solidly achieved by his own and the car 's merits . |
| 25 | They are now hailed as nothing less than the first Europeans . |
| 26 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |