Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 With the summer certain to be dominated ( again ) by sequels ( Legal Weapon 3 , Batman Returns , Alien³ ; , Honey I Blew Up The Kids ) , Hollywood pundits are keeping busy predicting this season 's sleeper hits .
2 well Jessica I forked out a fiver for your birthday which I could n't afford how would you like to be a thousand pound overdrawn ?
3 Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard .
4 When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily .
5 In the car I rolled up the windows and screamed all the way to the Sawtelle Veteran 's Hospital in Los Angeles where we were filming .
6 After I made the cut I folded back the turf ( still using the spade ) and saw the nest .
7 However , such disadvantages could be minimized by elaborating the definition of extreme emotional disturbance so as to clarify its extent and its limitations , and by evolving sentencing guidelines which set out the major determinants of culpability .
8 The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles .
9 He was , he said , threatened with murder ; and when he travelled round his diocese he was preceded by a troop of horse which broke up the illegal meetings .
10 The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies .
11 So-called ‘ regenerated celluloses ’ , such as Cellophane , are made by dissolving natural cellulose by chemical methods which break up the crystals .
12 The newest styles hark back to the Seventies ; wedge-soled styles which lace up the leg .
13 As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone .
14 They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead .
15 In addition computer artists Karl Sims , Rebecca Allen and Julia Hayward have provided animated speculations about the digital landscapes of the future which fill up the latter part of the show .
16 The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings .
17 the units which make up the system of the modern world economy are not individual enterprises , but … complexes , state capitalist trusts …
18 Not only might such a diagram act as a checklist of the types of land use to look for in a study of any area , but it may also serve to prompt questions about the working of the basic agricultural economic units which make up the English landscape .
19 In some cases , the units which make up the SVQ are designed to be assessed in the workplace by the candidate 's immediate workplace supervisor ; in other cases , the flexibility and responsiveness of the National Certificate system have allowed the Lead Body Standards to be built into National Certificate Modules .
20 A further aspect of the new system , which has yet to be fully exploited by centres , is that the Higher National Units which make up the new courses can be taken individually by candidates , rather than in complete courses .
21 A 19-year-old girl was injured by the stolen car which hurtled up an alley and rebounded off a wall before hitting her and another wall .
22 Employees benefited from Homequity 's guaranteed home sale programme which speeded up the sale and purchase of properties in the old and new locations .
23 After meeting pupils of Maghull High School , Mr Hunt was introduced to Merseyside Tec 's Future programme which sets out a career and training plan for clients .
24 By manipulating the fungi which exist around the roots of all plants we can make the plant more efficient at taking up nutrients and make it grow quicker .
25 They also say it was government research which slipped back the most between 1973 and 1981 and that industry needs to be allowed to make profits before upping R&D .
26 When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet .
27 This is a tape which prints out the information from the till and eliminates the old system of having to write out an individual docket for every transaction .
28 He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them .
29 Too often they are dominated by smooth committee men in light grey suits with lukewarm words which swill around the mouth like watered-down lemonade .
30 A distinction between the state , as the institution which carries on the function of government , and the government as the politicians currently in office , makes it possible to oppose policies without denying legitimacy , or even to challenge the legitimacy of particular ministerial procedures , without confronting the constitution as a whole .
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