Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike . |
| 2 | But the highest value was put on just being there , the willingness to sit by a bedside and to do more listening than talking , the patience with inconsistencies and sudden reversals of mood and the readiness to come back , week after week . |
| 3 | In its simplest use , the computer sits in a corner and each child has an individual session with relevant material ; so inevitably only a short time would normally be available . |
| 4 | Her hair parted at the centre and scraped back in a pony tail , Mara was there as usual , fussing over her regulars , but still the very soul of discretion . |
| 5 | Dr Mackintosh was a red-faced Scot with mousy greying hair parted in the middle and tiny gold-rimmed glasses on the tip of his rather short nose . |
| 6 | She was a very efficient , neat woman with a reddish face , her hair parted in the middle and drawn back tightly against her head . |
| 7 | Alexandra , in her new afternoon dress , her hair parted in the middle and drawn up by Lyddy into a series of padded puffs and curves behind , waited in the drawing-room on the edge of the sofa . |
| 8 | Basically , by weighting the left rail the board turns to the right and vice versa . |
| 9 | Cinema developed alongside the wireless and the telephone as communications media that would change the way people perceived the world around them . |
| 10 | Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change . |
| 11 | It is ridiculous that two-thirds of the cost of a bottle of whisky goes to the Treasury and the taxation rate is double that of imported wines . ’ |
| 12 | If you are threatened with disconnection or are already disconnected , it is useful to know the protection given under the Gas and Electricity Codes of Practice to consumers in ‘ hardship ’ . |
| 13 | When the deposit was received , it was an advance part payment received by the business and did not belong to the customer . |
| 14 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 15 | None the less , the enthusiasm aroused by the report and the wide support it achieved among Labour politicians , sections of the Conservative Party and a broad spectrum of opinion led to a series of government White Papers in 1944 organised by the Minister of Reconstruction , Lord Woolton . |
| 16 | She was disappointed at the lack of support given by the teachers and she had felt embarrassed by their absence . |
| 17 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 18 | The type of ventilation necessary in any given situation varies from simple dilution techniques through local exhaust systems to personalised protection depending on the toxicity and concentration of the particular odorant . |
| 19 | Cyclic fluctuations in population numbers occur in many species of small mammal , and the exact role predation plays in the rise and fall of population numbers is not yet agreed upon ( Southern , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Pumps were needed to lift the water from the field drains into the rivers and canals . |
| 21 | I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home . |
| 22 | Papers ( 1834 ) xxvi 9 , that they would in future allow a person refused admission to appeal to the judges and that they would be bound by their decision : see Holdsworth 's History of English Law , vol . |
| 23 | We attribute this effect to a combination of stronger CO binding to the surface and increased ionization of the potassium adatoms . |
| 24 | Apart from the notion of transition outlined above , and unlike the Hallidayan approach , where the verb is generally considered part of the rheme , FSP theory assigns thematic or rhematic status to the verb depending on the context and the semantics of the verb itself . |
| 25 | The facts are : Lady Eleanor kept to herself , put on her cloak to go for a walk and , in the half-light , slipped on the staircase at Godstowe , fell and broke her neck . ’ |
| 26 | The power being generated by each engine at the time of impact has to be established by assessing the temperature of the turbine blades when ingested material impinged on the blades during the crash and by the type of damage sustained by the compressor and turbine blades or , if appropriate , the propeller damage and the blade pitch angles . |
| 27 | as if in reply an almost palpable sulphurous wave arose from the dog and eddied around me . |
| 28 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 29 | Project manager , Rob Bolt said : ‘ This is the first major rebuilding contract undertaken by a HAT and is a very different market for us , as construction managers . ’ |
| 30 | The mean risk rating given in the Groeger and Chapman study was in fact considerably higher than that given by subjects in this experiment ( mean=3.66 , s.d. =0.74 as opposed to mean=2.15 , s.d. =0.50 ) . |