Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is the best record ever made ! ’ — the songs lack the bursting invention and variation of great pop/soul/jazz/harmonica gumbo or whatever to lift them into that category .
2 This booklet is written for secondary school children and young people who want to understand something about AIDS or who know someone with AIDS — possibly a friend at school or someone in their close family .
3 It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva .
4 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
5 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
6 In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all .
7 At Billy Graham 's 1961 Maine Road Stadium Crusade , low-level , multi-speaker systems meant that music from choir and instruments was travelling around the stadium electronically and then being ‘ chased ’ by the real sound , with the result that everyone heard everything at least twice .
8 Sartre 's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue , with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters ; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra , Arithmetic , Calculus , Geometry … and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard .
9 He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal .
10 It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach .
11 But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands .
12 No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view .
13 One thing said in support of the idea that we take effects to be probable events , and , more particularly , said against the analysis expounded in this chapter that we take them to be necessitated events , is relevant enough , although likely to be disdained by the high-minded .
14 There is every indication that he believed it to be true , whether it was or not .
15 After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base .
16 After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base .
17 I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting .
18 After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’
19 Some ten years and several tasteful additions later , the present hotel was launched and it is with pleasure that we include it in our programme .
20 ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘
21 And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous .
22 On Oct. 25 the two main opposition groups , the DCR and the NSF , expressed their support for a DNSF minority government on condition that it committed itself to " the evolution of Romania towards democracy … and the pursuit of economic reform " .
23 The Lady 's last opponent shifted his seat until he faced her across the board .
24 There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle .
25 You are Secretary of the Magistrates Association and you have something like twenty five thousand members out of a total of something like twenty seven thousand Magistrates .
26 As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink .
27 Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth .
28 And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental ,
29 Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life .
30 There are apparently further charges to be put to him your worship the charge of theft and we charge him with handling stolen property .
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