Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore .
2 Gastric juice ammonium concentration , antral histology , and serum concentrations of gastrin and pepsinogen I were examined in nine H pylori positive and nine H pylori negative uraemic patients .
3 I was issued after the immediately after the briefing I was issued with two weapons a revolver and a shot gun .
4 Thus , on one side we are bombarded with deliberate stimulation by commercial and ultra-permissive interests while on the other we are subject to the cannonades of the ultra-moral , the repressed and the repressive .
5 Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress .
6 During experiment they were placed in modified Bollman type cages to maintain the minimum restraint necessary .
7 As a result they were endowed with both the legitimacy of their official role and the popular support of the majority of users .
8 However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older .
9 As a result he was appointed in 1937 to be Maltravers Pursuivant Extraordinary : he thus played an official role at the coronation of King George VI in that year .
10 As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot .
11 Mr Kallisher said Green was assisted by his knowledge as a CPS solicitor to construct his own defence and although arrested for the murder he was released on 3 November and not rearrested until 14 November , 1991 .
12 In reality , the term should only be applied to items made under royal commission , but in practice it is used for any rug from these weaving centres produced in the Pahlavi style ( pls 36 , 37 ) .
13 As a cultural practice it is embedded in national traditions and subject to institutional constraints , but it is also a multi-interpretable art form , which may be opaque in its meanings , or a window on the world ( for feminist windows are different ) .
14 At college he was held in great affection and esteem by his fellow students .
15 For his part in the crime he was sentenced to ten years and went down with thirteen other accomplices for a total of fifty five years and £675,000 in fines .
16 He died in 1936 , and despite the Franco oppression he was venerated by many of the university staff .
17 Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the volcano , in the area which is now Torre del Greco , but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the volcano .
18 In the corridor I 'm addressed by another doctor .
19 It 's a fate she 's accepted with surprising equanimity .
20 Without oxygen we were limited to 10,000 feet , but the published ceiling is FL360 at max weight , increasing well into the forties as fuel is burned .
21 As we passed Pabbay we were hit by successive heavy squalls ; the promontory toe Head would be out of the question .
22 There were even attempts by Anglican groups to prevent the Dissenters from enjoying the toleration they were offered after 1687 .
23 Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’
24 Gascoigne replied within a minute with a close-range effort and as Lazio piled on the pressure in the second half they were rewarded with five minutes to go when Cristiano Bergodi headed home .
25 As justices of the peace they were burdened by central government with a growing number of responsibilities ; the more prosperous also intruded into the market towns , maintaining houses in Chichester or Lewes as well as the lesser centres , and replacing townsmen as Members of Parliament as the costs of the job became more onerous and the social distinction of election more desirable .
26 We all called him ‘ Mol ’ abbreviating his name as students always do ; and throughout the diocese he is known by all his brother priests as simply ‘ Mol ’ ; and now I gather that his parishioners call him Fr Mol .
27 In the 1975 session the government was defeated in 100 Lords divisions , and in the 1975 session it was defeated in 120 divisions .
28 As compensation he was knighted in 1684 .
29 And in the faculty he was surrounded by several men of substance with much the same opinions though with less hardness in their advocacy .
30 Two principal types of construction are used : on street sections grooved tram rail is laid directly on to a solid track-bed , while on the Promenade it is spiked to wooden sleepers .
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