Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | County NatWest calculates that in the first half of the year to September 1991 , Hanson made £150m interest on its cash pile and £60m-70m from selling a subsidiary — in all , 37% of its total pre-tax profits of £588m . |
| 32 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 33 | Olwen Hufton maintains that in the eighteenth century the stereotypical spinster was ‘ … one to be despised , pitied , and avoided as a sempiternal spoilsport in the orgy of life ’ . |
| 34 | When we talk about how camp they are now — Fred considers that on the official pop campness scale ‘ out of ten we 're about eight : Erasure are ten ’ — the non-singing brother also explains that there was no other way . |
| 35 | For this reason , the FRED proposes that on the expiry of a warrant the amount previously recognised in shareholders ' funds be recognised in the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 36 | They built a separate development area , and Wilkinson reports that at the time he was writing his book three major new projects were being developed within it , but as none had reached completion there is no data about the effects of this new pattern of introducing new technology in that company . |
| 37 | Medved argues that at a time when most Americans continue to espouse traditional values , Hollywood is controlled by an intellectual elite clinging to the ‘ freakiness ’ of Sixties counter-culture . |
| 38 | Mr Knight anticipates that over the next few years manufacturing capacity will expand and business may be further developed via a joint venture . |
| 39 | Strategist Nicholas Knight believes that on a two-year view shares are a buy . |
| 40 | Nuttall concludes that in the end ‘ the only criterion for judging the adequacy of the reports ’ findings is one 's faith in HM Inspectorate' . |
| 41 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
| 42 | Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall . |
| 43 | But the most important and interesting aspect of its role in the book is the way in which Proust 's narrative is shown to deviate from the model : Genette shows that in a number of ways A la recherche breaks and challenges the laws of narrative proposed by the abstract model but without undercutting their general validity . |
| 44 | Mr Phillipson wrote : ‘ Hancock recalls that in the less traumatic moments he was struck by the rich red colour of some of the massive formations as they slipped by barely a metre from his wing-tips . ’ |
| 45 | Cecil recalls that for the tour the crew members were drawn from various squadrons from 5 Group . |
| 46 | Lévi-Strauss suggests that as a science anthropology should be attempting not to provide a definition of man as he is known experientially in our own society — an unscientific subjectivism — but should rather begin by ‘ dissolving ’ him . |
| 47 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 48 | Here Lévi-Strauss argues that behind the original question from which Sartre began — how can man make history if history makes him ? — lurks another : if it is man who makes history , how does ‘ History ’ gain its exorbitant status as the desired , unachievable object of Sartre 's text ? |
| 49 | Gibbon records that on the day of the decisive battle a ‘ violent tempest ’ blowing in the faces of the defending Romans ‘ disordered their ranks , wrested their weapons from their hands , and diverted or repelled their ineffectual javelins ’ . |
| 50 | Make-up artist Barbara Daly says that for a ‘ lipstick wardrobe ’ try : a pinky/brown ( this will go with anything ) ; a sheer mid-apricot to match warm tones ; a paprika/copper red ( as opposed to scarlet ) to wear with black , red , white and navy : and a bright pink which goes brilliantly with red . |
| 51 | ‘ In the gospels , Sir John , Christ says that at the end of the world the very heavens will rock and the planets fall to earth in a fiery blaze . ’ |
| 52 | At the end of chapter eight of The Form Rolle comments that in the " fyrst degre er many , in degree er ful faa , bot in thyrde degre unnethes er any " [ faa : few ; unnethes : scarcely ] ( 107.83 – 5 ) confirming this view . |
| 53 | Miller comments that in the case of children with learning difficulties , including mentally handicapped children , it may be helpful to calculate mental age using a development test or a standardised test of intelligence and to compare the MLU predicted by chronological age with that predicted using the child 's mental age . |
| 54 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 55 | It is difficult to assess the number of garbage pickers , because this fluctuates seasonally and because they are not really enumerated in official statistics , but Birkbeck estimates that at the time of the study , there were between 1,200 and 1,700 garbage pickers in Cali . |
| 56 | And Chisholm claims that in the non-comparative use , appear-statements express what is ‘ directly evident ’ . |
| 57 | In Capital Marx argues that as a result of the peculiar history of capitalism , the capitalist , who is really a parasite on the workers , is represented as though he were the opposite ; as the source of production and the benefactor of the workers . |
| 58 | As an illustration of this negative relationship Lucas notes that for the US his estimate of the variance of aggregate demand is 0.00064 , while for Argentina it is more than 20 times higher at 0.01555 ; the estimate of β 1 for the US is 0.910 , whereas for Argentina it is much lower at 0.011 . |
| 59 | Meyer 's chairman Richard Jewson says that in the first four months of this year there is absolutely no sign of more people moving house than a year ago . |
| 60 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |