Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently refurbished and extended , it provides a meeting room , a smaller games room with snooker table , and a kitchen , and is well used for all the activities that make up village life . |
| 2 | To endorse the response and to decide how it should be promoted . |
| 3 | Naps during the daytime and waking up during the night would both increase ; these changes are often observed . |
| 4 | Radon comes from the uranium that occurs naturally in the ground . |
| 5 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 6 | You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in . |
| 7 | After drinking a mug of tea , I packed away the tent and set off , watching the trees float nearer as the pale sun thawed the earth . |
| 8 | Fairfax leaves the tent and walks over to the fire . |
| 9 | Roll out the bread lightly with a rolling pin after cutting off the crusts and spread thickly with the cheese filling . |
| 10 | Ruth had a phase of bringing home flowers obtained during her days of truancy : daffodils and tulips perhaps picked from the park or swiped off graves . |
| 11 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 12 | Take a daily walk in the park and breathe deeply . |
| 13 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 14 | She had reached the edge of the park and looked down the slopes to the fair in the dell on the far side . |
| 15 | He was also a man of means and in 1839 , as a young architect , he bought up an estate in Cheltenham known as the Park and set about making fourteen acres of formal gardens and building six of speculative housing . |
| 16 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 17 | When the door to the Scotland team opened in Paris earlier this season , the Bonnyrigg blacksmith seized the opportunity and went on to establish himself with further caps against Wales and England . |
| 18 | From the tenth and eleventh centuries , as the church established itself in northern Spain , the French seized the opportunity and set up monastic centres in the region under the Cluniac Order . |
| 19 | And if your friends at the club tell you there 's an opportunity to go upmarket , convince your boss of the opportunity and do just that . |
| 20 | Obviously , where these exist , it is important to use the opportunity and to consider how they can best be integrated with the more reluctant mass . |
| 21 | The forms that have long been used by conveyancers ( LLC1 and Con 29A or Con 29D ) are to have their format altered with effect from 1 September 1991. ( b ) Who registers ? |
| 22 | The player , who scored last weekend on his comeback against Partick Thistle , might dwell on the advancement that has recently been made by someone like Eoin Jess , however , and reason that he would be well advised to channel all his energies towards regaining the kind of status that had him as part of Scotland 's European championship squad eight months ago . |
| 23 | There 's a cupboard there that 's been ripped open , I mean is that just part of the vandalism that goes on ? |
| 24 | Employees offered a transfer which involves relocation overseas will consider the pros and cons very carefully , as accepting such a transfer is a major step to take . |
| 25 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 26 | But erm the , the contracts that came in erm were in the main for the ship stabilizers . |
| 27 | Believe me it is the sense of double standards , and this alone , which infuriates the Pakistanis and brings out the bad feelings . |
| 28 | I always wanted to play the guitar , though , so I went the usual route : buy the guitar and play along to records . ’ |
| 29 | One says the main problems are rival groups of casuals coming out of the discos and restaurants at about 4.30 , and the crowds that gather round the kebab shops . |
| 30 | Waiting for him was the illuminated Lifeboat tram , on which he made a tour of the Promenade , waving to the crowds and commenting favourably on Blackpool 's modern streamlined trams . |