Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , smoker or not , drinker or latter-day prohibitionist , be sure to equip yourself with your full duty-free quotas of Marlboros and Bells afore ye go behind the remnants of the Iron Curtain . |
| 2 | At midday Romany cut the engines , and Milhaez steered the barge into a narrow inlet where we moored between the bank and a low island of reeds and stunted palms . |
| 3 | Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance . |
| 4 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 5 | Conciliation facilities are available in the county courts where you go for the divorce . |
| 6 | Now the diode is reverse biased and the capacitor can charge until the feedback makes the output switch back to its original saturation level where it remains in the absence of a further trigger pulse . |
| 7 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 8 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 9 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 10 | This risk might come from subsequent investigation of the audit , or from investigations carried out by any of the various regulatory bodies such as the Inland Revenue Investigations Branch or one established under the Financial Services Act . |
| 11 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 13 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 14 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 15 | That sounds like something that they might have at the end of term or something done by an adult working in a steelworks . |
| 16 | He was educated at Elphinstone College where he remained as a teacher and became the first Indian professor with his appointment to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy ( 1854 ) . |
| 17 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 18 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 19 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 20 | And it has to make up its mind where it stands in the matter of the European Community . |
| 21 | They wandered down a small incline where they stopped on a bridge and stared down into the browny green water . |
| 22 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 23 | Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment . |
| 24 | Behind his hostility lay a conviction that the Roman Church represented a corruption of an earlier , undefiled religion that he associated with the Egyptians . |
| 25 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 26 | It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void . |
| 27 | You went to college so you got into the Socialist Worker 's Party or whatever . |
| 28 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 29 | He was always grateful for ‘ the healthy and restorative force that I see in the country . ’ |
| 30 | Mark fell onto the road with such force that he went into a coma from which he never recovered . |