Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more gripping than this documentary feature is Apted 's fictional movie based on the same incident , Thunderheart , a tight , concentrated political drama which the director got off the ground thanks to the backing of Robert De Niro . |
| 2 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 3 | The small professional garden design team offers an attractive range , called Tropical Shades , to keep you cool during the summer months . |
| 4 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 5 | The tenrecs look very much like the hedgehogs and have a similar defensive armour , with fine spines that can be erected as the animal rolls into a tight ball . |
| 6 | The urban poor , who burn kerosene to cook , for example , suffer as the end users if their government puts a levy on imports of petroleum . |
| 7 | Computer Horizons Corp 's largest shareholder , CGI Informatique SA , itself under agreed offer from IBM Corp , is seeking to persuade other shareholders to overturn corporate policies that it thinks deter potential acquisition offers for the Mountain Lakes , New Jersey company . |
| 8 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 9 | Then over to see about the feed stores . |
| 10 | Close bonds developed between the crew members as they lived and worked together on the 67-foot steel vessel for 24 hours a day , sometimes in life-threatening situations . |
| 11 | and I just got through the traffic lights first thing in the morning and there was two light |
| 12 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |
| 13 | Numerous disputes arose between the Forest officers and the owners of lands and woods they had re-afforested . |
| 14 | Distinguish between the rainwater drains and foul drains by flushing toilets and observing the manholes , then by pouring a bucket of water into external rainwater gullies . |
| 15 | I tried several places before they tumbled through the ballroom doors . |
| 16 | The thermostat , which fits between the element loops , is usually sold separately — so make sure you have got one . |
| 17 | Bleed holes within the dam allow water levels to equalise as the cistern refills , which prevents stagnant water build-up . |
| 18 | Concern may also arise about the employment opportunities for a relocated spouse and school and future work opportunities in the area for children . |
| 19 | Postgraduate research in the UK is currently dually funded by Government ; by project research grants through the Research Councils , and by block grant from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , formerly the University Grants Committee ( UGC ) . |
| 20 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 21 | Pebble Island is situated off the north shores of West Falkland , and has a lot to offer the birdwatcher : large colonies of penguins , king cormorants and other cliff- and shore-nesting species including several pairs of the superb red-backed hawk . |
| 22 | With finance coming partly from the Parent-Teacher Association ( PTA ) and partly from capitation , the library was gutted , refurbished and painted during the summer holidays , the labour being provided by teachers , fifth-form and sixth-form pupil librarians , the caretaker and a parent who was a builder . |
| 23 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |
| 24 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Paddock grazing ’ , in which the grassland is divided into small paddocks , grazed hard for a short period and then rested for up to three weeks , is a very good system for the control of parasite worms , the life cycle of which is broken during the rest periods . |
| 26 | Land adjacent to the site would be developed as the Lancashire Enterprises Business and Technology Park . |
| 27 | Then at the last minute she swung round , her heart bursting inside her , just in time to see him disappear through the terrace doors . |
| 28 | • Complex computer-based games have been developed so that scores for manipulative skill , decision-taking , vigilance , etc. can all be calculated as the game proceeds . |
| 29 | He came back without warning , overriding his own harbingers and flashing through the opening gates and straight to the hall , heralded only by the flag streaming above him . |
| 30 | And you 'd hear the tracer bullets rattling about the tin sheds . |