Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comprises two parallel rows of council houses tacked on the end of a neat little avenue of ‘ Nash ’ houses build just after the war . |
| 2 | The stunned reaction to ‘ Vitriola ’ provides a worrying moment , as Lesley 's vocal contortions fly headfirst into a brick wall of bemusement . |
| 3 | Weiner regards this as irrational and a root of Britain 's weakness ; in fact these values fit closely with the dominance of other kinds of capitalistic activity in land , finance and empire . |
| 4 | Sharp icicles fly out from the caster 's hand and strike the first unit or model in their path . |
| 5 | The tickover burbles and barks , but blip the throttle and the whole car twists with the torque reaction and the birds fly out of the trees . |
| 6 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 7 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 8 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 9 | Later ( most accounts say early in the morning ) the students returned and compelled Sukarno and his family , and also Hatta , to come away with them ; their destination was the Peta barracks at Rengasdenglok , about 70 miles away . |
| 10 | In practice , of course , these constitutional norms fit uneasily alongside the realities of political life , especially in those authorities divided on party lines . |
| 11 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 12 | Unsuccessful suitors copy the songs of the successful ones , and so the songs change steadily through the breeding season . |
| 13 | In presence of cAMP-CRP , however , the two proteins bind cooperatively to the DNA and the cooperative DNA binding is mediated by direct protein-protein interactions between the cAMP-CRP and CytR ( 6 , 10 ) . |
| 14 | For a while they walked in silence , retracing their steps back up towards the house . |
| 15 | Savanna animals cool off with a kind of organic radiator by evaporating water from the moist linings of the nasal chambers . |
| 16 | But the winners make up with the size of their winnings what they lack in numbers . |
| 17 | The berths were practically dry at low water and vessels lay aground on the mud bottom whilst loading and discharging their cargoes . |
| 18 | Futures contracts are traded on a central regulated exchange by open outcry , whereby traders congregate periodically in a pit on the floor of the exchange to buy and sell contracts , with every negotiated price being heard by other traders . |
| 19 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 20 | Easily Accessible : Walks spiral out in every direction , including the Pennine Way , which runs across Black Hill and can be joined one mile from the house . |
| 21 | WHEN darkness falls , Kalashnikov-toting Iraqi Shia fighters slip home across the border from safe havens in Iran . |
| 22 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 23 | And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders . |
| 24 | When Maxim Gorki as a young man read a story by Guy de Maupassant , he marvelled ‘ why the plain , familiar words put together by a man into a story about the uninteresting life of a servant moved me so ’ . |
| 25 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 26 | This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 1989 . |
| 27 | The National Executive had recognized , temporarily , most of the organizational demands put forward in the paper since its foundation . |
| 28 | Lords , ladies , dukes and duchesses figure prominently among the names as well as more ordinary mortals of obviously substantial means . |
| 29 | Sugars also attach to proteins to form ‘ glycoproteins ’ , and it now seems that most proteins function only in the form of glycoprotein . |
| 30 | Similarly , conferences , where several speakers address many delegates , are also one-to-many , because the speakers act sequentially in the communication process . |