Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As much because of what is left unsaid as because of what is directly described , The Albatross is one of those exceptions which suggest that the junior adventure story has always suffered under unnecessary limitations : the names that stand out in the genre are those who in various ways have ignored or overridden these limitations .
2 The only people who had trouble in adjusting to work were those who for some reason deviated from this model — either by going up the social scale or by going down it ( social mobility is more fully discussed by Geoff Payne in this volume ) .
3 Competitiveness , aggression , brutality and maleness are all one in the same .
4 Similarly in Hannan although the court is unclear which of the tests is the ‘ law , ’ they actually apply the Denning version of the likelihood test : would a reasonable man say that a real danger of bias exists .
5 Charley was high himself by then .
6 A three-phase stepping motor is excited one-phase-on by its rated current of 2 A.
7 Prices are highly variable and no guide is available whatsoever with regard to quality or performance .
8 Alongside the notice was another one from the cricket club stating that the offer to the rugby club had been made on on April 9 and , as joint owners of the ground , the cricket club had been informed .
9 Its genesis , location , economics and indeed its timing are all something of a puzzle , to which there are for so recent an event , no easy solutions .
10 DAVID MELLOR has gone to the back benches nursing the belief that since he told John Major all about his expenses-paid holiday it made it okay and if life were fair none of us should have considered him out of order .
11 One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that .
12 Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend
13 It 's 7 league game without defeat now for United , but their last home win was this one against Cambridge in mid September .
14 When you come out of role to reflect on what 's been going on your questions might include : " What led you to believe the carpenter was nervous/hiding something from us ? "
15 The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest .
16 But now the diminutive hoofer is hot-footing it around Britain on a marathon tour with Lorna Luft , Judy Garland 's singer daughter .
17 The members of each set are distinguished one from another by what are fairly well known , the different theories of the nature of probability , all of them consistent with the Probability Calculus .
18 Yes the erm coffee is two lots of one eighty nine so that 's three seventy eight is n't it ?
19 What sort of house is that one in ?
20 Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls .
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