Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of tiring you out , a run round the park can perk up your sex life no end , a survey reveals today . |
| 2 | In the same way , the retailer can divide up her income ( 100% ) into the different areas of expenditure — and the ‘ empty ’ part of the chart will show her profits : |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Rifleman Willoughby , the Board will watch how you get on with some interest … and we 'll interview you again in six months ’ time . ’ |
| 4 | Additionally , the Board will investigate how it can help in the development and distribution of GNVQs , possibly through cooperation with other awarding bodies . |
| 5 | And I 'm afraid there is no way you can you , if you try and force the caf to be more a sort of caf that people who come to the cinema will patronize then it will not make a profit in my view . |
| 6 | Millar and Big Ben , winners of the World Cup in 1988 and 1989 , have almost the best draw of all , last but one , by which time the Canadian will know exactly what he needs to do . |
| 7 | The book is lent , it needs to be known when it 's gone out , when it 's due back , but the computer can clock up one . |
| 8 | in the town square when the chairman will stub out his last cigarette on No Smoking Day or whatever it is . ’ |
| 9 | But as these guitars are to all intents and purposes custom made , the buyer can specify virtually anything . |
| 10 | Every day Topaz watched to see if the Sister would fall off her perch , but she never did . |
| 11 | The review will show exactly what went wrong . |
| 12 | If you do stay away I can tell you the trainer will know where you can get a deal like that . |
| 13 | Whatever the circumstances the lawyer should resist either his own temptation or the client 's instructions to prepare a contract at this early stage . |
| 14 | At a casual glance , the club could offer merely what it advertises . |
| 15 | Additionally , he abhors the misuse of punishment , and emphasises that the punishment must be just , and the horse must understand why it is being punished . |
| 16 | If you touch a wheel , you 'll fall in a slide and half the peloton will ride over you before they fall themselves . |
| 17 | Anyway , before anyone from the crew of the boat could get ashore they saw two uniformed constables come down , and reckoned they 'd leave them to it . |
| 18 | The authorities took care that the change in the status of the peasantry should upset neither their discipline nor their deference . |
| 19 | Led by John Wakeham , then the government 's Chief Whip and whose seat included Bradwell , they publicly opposed the dumps , no doubt fearful that the issue might sweep away their majorities . |
| 20 | Finally , the person speaking for the Council will sum up their reasons ; and you , or the person speaking for you , may sum up your reasons . |
| 21 | However , stars more massive than the sun will burn up their fuel much more rapidly . |
| 22 | Before the chase could begin again he spoke , his voice as soft and melting as the sleet . |
| 23 | As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ? |
| 24 | In a few moments my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will set out our detailed proposals to deal with the problem of repossessions . |
| 25 | There had been a current of antipathy to the strict Calvinist view of the child throughout the seventeenth century ; and the concept that , given the right environment and the proper course of education , compassion and benevolence , the essential goodness of the child would triumph over its propensity for evil , already had a longish history . |
| 26 | " The way in which learning to read is experienced by the child will determine how he will view learning in general , how he will conceive of himself as a person . " |
| 27 | Because there must come a point somewhere in time where the shop will say well you 've now had these goods so long they 're no longer our responsibility . |
| 28 | Mathematical experience may be involved incidentally in many of these activities , but the teacher must decide when it is appropriate to bring it to the surface . |
| 29 | 6 The teacher should find out what his pupils are studying in other classes or what his mature students ' professions , jobs and intentions are , in order to integrate their language work ( cf Special Purposes English ) . |
| 30 | However , do n't make too much of a habit of switch-changing because the opponent may pick up your rhythm and attack just as you are in the middle of a change . |