Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to rely on my somewhat suspect shorthand for everything the Bishop said . |
| 2 | He told her plainly , ‘ My reason was this : I have no wish to lose my newly appointed designer at such a crucial stage in the proceedings . |
| 3 | Jeanne , the Vitou 's only daughter was being prepared for evacuation , but my newly found knowledge in medicine and sociology was making me over optimistic . |
| 4 | My recently announced initiative on bringing into use empty flats above shops will help to increase the total stock , as will the further reductions in mortgage rates announced last week and the suspension of stamp duty . |
| 5 | ( i ) The elaborate form of the large guilloche circle and its skilfully executed junction with the frame of the mosaic is reminiscent of the circle of chain-guilloche at Barton Farm . |
| 6 | Abbey National , of course , is now classified as a bank in the UK , but its wholly owned subsidiary in Jersey , Abbey National ( Overseas ) ( phone 0534 58815 ) , has the benefit of a legally binding guarantee from the parent providing for full repayment of all deposits if the subsidiary should fail . |
| 7 | SUPEREAL : ‘ Elixir ’ occasional Meat Beat Manifesto members issue their eagerly awaited debut of trancey house rhythms , co-produced by former ABC and Unique 3 collaborator John Crosley |
| 8 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
| 9 | The international trading company Lonrho and the Al Fayed brothers , the owners of the Harrods company House of Fraser , have settled their long running row over the ownership of the Harrods store . |
| 10 | Their fiercely preserved notion of honest , controlled friendship had moved sharply into an expression of mutual love — symbolized , as Helen insisted in all this early correspondence , by the purity and truthfulness of their 26 Edward Thomas kisses . |
| 11 | Only in cases involving ethnic groups does it suddenly forget its much advertised opposition to censorship and abandon its crusading zeal to defend the public 's ‘ right to know ’ . |
| 12 | The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places . |
| 13 | The momentary confusion it caused in their reaction , meant that Satan and Baal missed their swiftly moving target by inches , as they found themselves snapping at empty air in mid-leap . |
| 14 | Her highly alerted state of mind told her there was some purpose behind that question . |
| 15 | Even before American marines made their much trumpeted arrival in Somalia , crews from RAF Lyneham were securing inland airfields . |
| 16 | Before the end of the interview , the Senior Management Team again referred to their new found knowledge of AT2 's good qualities . |
| 17 | In their excellently produced guide to the area the Ossett Chamber of Trade proudly point out : ‘ there are over one hundred clubs and societies which cater for a wide range of interests as well as a golf club , cricket club and two football clubs . ’ |
| 18 | Reporters handed their just completed text to the news editor , who edited the stories and telephoned any alterations in the programme to the newscaster : ‘ Scott , kill story four from Moscow — something better 's come in , so we are n't going to run it ’ … |
| 19 | The child would then assimilate this object into its already formed concept of table , with no further consequence . |
| 20 | Their deeply held view on this matter is bound up with their interpretation of political realities . |
| 21 | Her deeply buried sense of humour came to her rescue . |
| 22 | Last night 's fiasco had n't helped , but even without it she wondered if she 'd have been able to cope with her deeply buried resentment towards Romano de Sciorto . |
| 23 | The discount houses agreed to abandon their collectively agreed price for the weekly Treasury bill issue , but they would continue to apply for a quantity of bills sufficient to cover the tender . |
| 24 | There are thus no circumstances in which the Chewong may behave in contradiction to their ideologically constructed concept of human nature . |
| 25 | The UK and the USA are technically correct in indicating that this protocol does not apply to nuclear weapons — at least to the extent that this has been their clearly declared position throughout the negotiations , and the International Committee of the Red Cross had accepted that the negotiations did not deal with atomic , biological and chemical warfare ( Collier , 1979 , pp. 21–32 ) . |
| 26 | RTS trainees from Eastern area practise their team building and raft building skills during their Outward Bound course at Llanberis in North Wales |
| 27 | In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic . |
| 28 | As the Japanese mainland became increasingly cut off from its far flung empire in the later stages of the Pacific War , Japanese control in Southeast Asia weakened . |
| 29 | This is the wild and tasteless world of The Hitman And Her , the vibrantly garish , unashamedly downmarket youth TV programme that is storming up the ratings chart with its gloriously OTT presentation of provincial culture . |
| 30 | Her posthumously published study of their factual background , A Thousand Lives : the English Revolutionary Movement 1660–1685 ( 1954 ) , showed her to be an able popularizer of history . |