Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to make a few comments , as a mainly urban cyclist who also rides for recreation and covers about 9,000 miles a year . |
| 2 | If you roll a number on the artillery dice then this is the distance in inches the missile veers off target as shown by the arrow on the scatter dice . |
| 3 | If you roll a number on the artillery dice then this is the distance in inches the missile veers off target as shown by the arrow on the scatter dice . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which has n't said yet if it 's using NT , has Microsoft helping it support HP 's 4mm digital audio tape ( DAT ) drives for backup and archiving : Microsoft Corp will make it an icon on the NT screen . |
| 5 | As long as the Bill goes through Committee and receives a Third Reading , the King 's Cross project will go ahead regardless of the timing of the link between the channel tunnel and London . |
| 6 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 7 | This meant removing metal covers during flight and delving inside the set with a small screwdriver , trying not to get a shock . |
| 8 | This dual usage makes them seem to fill the limbo-land that lies between rhythm and lead approaches , and therefore an ability to play them fluently is a more-or-less essential guitar skill . |
| 9 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 10 | Materials are generally stainless steel , porcelain-covered cast iron , or the new plastic substance which looks like marble and makes a neat and effective all-in-one counter and sink . |
| 11 | He looks like hell and sounds awful … the nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation |
| 12 | He looks like hell and sounds awful , but then , as he 's the first to admit , he always did . |
| 13 | Your major concern lies with understanding and analysing this body of information — the " why " and " how " of History , rather than the " what " . |
| 14 | However , one major difference has been that the mind of an individual develops with time and becomes better at the tasks it undertakes , whereas computers , with certain limited exceptions , perform at the same level of ability until replaced by a better machine or a better program . |
| 15 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 16 | Since NC protein interacts with DNA and has nucleic acid annealing activities , an additional role during reverse transcription could be envisioned . |
| 17 | At an inclusive cost per golfer of £50 , the Academy day starts with breakfast and includes tuition given on an individual basis ; a group lesson ; a four-course lunch with wine ; Stableford competition and a champagne reception and prize-giving . |
| 18 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals , ’ he said . |
| 20 | So dressed and fed , he bites with sarcasm and slashes with ridicule the class that despises him . ’ |
| 21 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 22 | Some of them are renegades from the Dwarf Engineers Guild which frowns upon innovation and regards much of the Empire 's new technology as a heinous break with ancient tradition . |
| 23 | No , you polish your armour till it gleams , you sharpen your lance and you mount your white charger , you raise your banner , you bid farewell to the grieving city , where the crowd stands in terror and hope at your preparations and your parting . |
| 24 | Building and Flying Your Own Plane ( PSL , 288pp , illus , hbk , £20.00 ) by Geoff Jones , lays out in great detail all the whys and wherefores in building and flying a homebuilt aircraft . |
| 25 | Attachment behaviour develops in childhood and endures throughout life , usually directed towards a few specific individuals . |
| 26 | His flat is modernist and bleak , his clothes are grey , she dresses in red and puts enough flowers in his kitchen to make up for the decimation of the rainforests . |
| 27 | So smothers in blood and burning |
| 28 | The report predicts 1991 will see further declines in occupancy and achieved room rates . |
| 29 | Reports from Norway of a sharp drop in numbers of the common toad , bufo bufo , are raising fears that European toad populations may be following the trend of sudden unexplained declines in frog and toad species already recorded in other parts of the world . |
| 30 | The hair stands on end and waits to be split |