Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Plowden summarises , ‘ Action on through traffic is … hardly ever sufficient as a means of creating or restoring good environmental conditions . ’ |
| 2 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 3 | The only Arab member of the anti-Iraq coalition not in attendance was Morocco . |
| 4 | The point I wish to make is that , while discipline is the rock on which the game of golf is built , with boiling points having to be checked regularly , the occasional letting off of steam is not the most serious of " crimes " . |
| 5 | One outcome of the review now under way is likely to be an increase in trackside maintenance to keep embankments free of overhanging trees and thick undergrowth . |
| 6 | Action today on health is guaranteed to make you feel better tomorrow . |
| 7 | The importance of doing courses at an institution closer to home is not surprising when one considers adults are likely to have commitments which limit their ability to travel long distances or stay away from home . |
| 8 | Much of the body of the Report , in contrast , takes the form of a discourse on the nation rather than the state ; indeed , the opening section of the chapter currently under discussion is subtitled " Literature and the nation " . |
| 9 | Whether she is consciously twisting logic , or just , poor girl , confused , I 'm not sure , but at the end it 's quite clear ‘ So dear I love them that with him all deaths I could endure , without him live no life ’ , that she 's got into a world of fantasy because the one thing that is of course not in question is that Adam should die and that she should live on , which appears to be what she 's referring to here . |
| 10 | Whether a post-Higher year is spent in the sixth year or in gaining experience away from school is essentially an individual decision . |
| 11 | The advantage of building a wardrobe entirely from scratch is that you can tailor it exactly to fit the space available . |
| 12 | One of the several inns of this type still in use is illustrated in Fig. 484 . |
| 13 | There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap . |
| 14 | GOVERNMENT euphoria surrounding the performance of the economy in recent weeks may burst this week after new statistics which are forecast to show Britain 's climb out of recession is slowing . |
| 15 | Should one or more of the modules requested for transfer OUT of LIFESPAN be offline , the whole command is held until the modules are restored online . |
| 16 | To take this law out of context is very misleading . |
| 17 | The precise question here under consideration is , if the Secretary of State does not adopt the judicial view of the tariff , is he obliged to give reasons for departing from it ? |
| 18 | However , senior management almost by definition is a matter of assessing and taking business risks on a daily if not hourly basis and even those momentarily brought up short by the mention of such dramatic events will rapidly discount them as extremely low in league of likely threats to be confronted . |
| 19 | There is also a great deal more garlic in the Greek version , and very often bread instead of potato is used as a softening agent . |
| 20 | In mid-afternoon the first glints of steel in the spring sunshine began to appear on the high ground of Scremerston Brae , and soon the long hill down to sea-level was covered in a vast tide of men and horses , armour gleaming , banners waving , under a faint haze of steam rising from thousands of beasts long ridden , muting the colours of plumed helmets , heraldic surcoats , painted shields and horse-trappings . |
| 21 | Try something like this : Relativity fitted naturally with Maxwell 's electromagnetism , explaining for example why the electromagnetic field around a charge apparently at rest is purely electrostatic , but that around a moving charge ( or an electric current ) has magnetic components as well . |
| 22 | In practice the administrative shift away from environmentalism was much less dramatic than ideologues like Newman were insisting . |
| 23 | However one body now in place is Enrico Pesatori , who last week traded in his spurs as president and chief executive officer of the Groupe Bull SA-owned Zenith Data Systems Inc to ride herd on Digital Equipment Corp 's personal computer business as vice president and general manager of the company 's new PC business unit . |
| 24 | On the other hand , in Huntley v. Thornton damages were awarded against union officials whose object in keeping the plaintiff out of work was , as Harman J. found , to uphold ‘ their own ruffled dignity … . |
| 25 | The worshipping community here on earth was an outlying colony , its prayer a distant echo of the perfect and unceasing praise offered to God in heaven by his angels and his saints . |
| 26 | The point nominally at issue was the one which had spasmodically rent the Conservative Party for the past three decades — the tariff question . |
| 27 | Admittedly , Venice was n't a very big place , but the odds on their meeting again by chance were minimal . |
| 28 | PAYING off the mortgage ahead of time is certainly the safest investment and could also be best for taxpayers who fear reduced returns on deposits if Labour wins . |
| 29 | Men with a low body mass index in later life were relatively protected against the susceptibility to glucose intolerance stemming from their low birth weights , while 17% of those of low birth weight but with a high body mass index later in life were frankly diabetic . |
| 30 | The organ most at risk is the brain , being enclosed within a rigid bony shell . |