Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In that case the defendants falsely claimed that trees were dangerous and offered to cut them down .
2 That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break .
3 Does Mum the Persil-user still believe That There 's no Devil and that youth is bliss ?
4 With repeated practice the interference between heard and spoken messages becomes much less and the information channelled through the response buffer should be lost at the filter as it re-enters the system .
5 As the last word tripped off Lamont 's mouth the room half emptied as bored businessmen raced for the buffet tables and the cold Chablis .
6 As Jack took a step towards the figure the mist suddenly cleared and the figure disappeared .
7 On the credit side the A.H.Q. also announced that during April the fighters had claimed 11 destroyed , nine probables and three damaged .
8 On the clinical side the view still prevails that schizophrenics have difficulty , as one author has put it , ‘ limiting the contents of consciousness ’ .
9 In an arranged marriage the husband often insists that his wife brings a pretty little mu tsai along as part of her dowry .
10 In addition to the points of law the case also shows that directors of companies in receivership may raise all sorts of legal questions to try and protect their interests .
11 After careful consideration of all the evidence and relevant law the Tribunal either upholds or dismisses the appeal .
12 In all the examples supplied by Stack the game obviously stops when the trigger is pulled .
13 To avoid divisiveness the Board also proposed that ‘ … it would be of advantage if Resident Tutors were kept informed of the activities of the WEA in the urban districts of their respective counties ’ .
14 Many passengers transferred from the Sophocles , I amongst them , and after much anxiety the Nestor actually sailed and it was with happy hearts that we saw Table Mountain gradually disappearing behind the horizon .
15 Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle .
16 I felt rather worried about her health , and went to her room an hour later to see if she needed anything .
17 A larger proportion of middle-period Byrd has seen the light of day the songs always excepted but never in recitals that attempt to plot stylistic progress .
18 My right hon. Friend the Minister rightly said that their parents could be fined , but some parents have less control over their children than Robert Maxwell 's children had over their fraudulent father .
19 The result of such a mishap is often spectacular with the eighty h.p. engine trying to wind the rubber bow back to the stern , but on this occasion the engine quickly stalled and I was left drifting helplessly in a strong wind with rope from the outboard propeller stretching from stern to bow in an inaccessible position .
20 When reviewers criticise software for not including such a facility the manufacturers often reply that it 's only journalists who are interested in this feature and that ‘ ordinary users ’ find a word count irrelevant .
21 In the mortgage deed the respondents further covenanted that they would purchase all their requirements from the appellants exclusively .
22 Mary Douglas ( 1987 : 92 ) , in her analysis of How Institutions Think , pursues Foucault 's argument a stage further to show that :
23 In a two page epilogue the author merely states that nowadays students begin not with a description of chemicals and reactions but by learning Schrödinger 's equation and the shapes of orbitals .
24 I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue .
25 If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’
26 In the rectory garden the twins still laughed and clapped , more amused than ever because he was still standing there with his eyes closed , smiling at them .
27 But in the end the argument apparently prevailed that the punishment had not breached the minimum threshold of severity to constitute a violation of human rights .
28 But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that .
29 To the manager 's surprise the man freely confessed that he felt poor at supervising and did not like doing it anyway .
30 Removal of the food decreases anxiety in both the mother and child initially and so is reinforcing , but later when the mother realizes that there is a problem the anxiety never resolves and the child is fussed over in order to encourage eating .
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