Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 2 | All bream , mature bream that is , will devour a small fish as and when the opportunity arises and they have the inclination to do so . |
| 3 | While she was desperately trying to think of something — anything ! — in explanation of her own folly the opportunity passed as he turned to leave the room . |
| 4 | Many who hold the minority view accept that they must recognize the mind of the Church , just as the majority realise that they have a duty to respect the consciences of those who disagree . |
| 5 | Erm now could you help me on some of the the terminology used because I gather that six of the packages have been or about to be erm priced on the basis of a ascertained costs erm I I just wondered if if that was a sort of euphemism for for a cost plus . |
| 6 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 7 | ‘ The review of ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' in Select started off saying that all the guitar playing that I did in The Birthday Party was genius and that since then I 've been very vague and confused . |
| 8 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 9 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 10 | The prince smiled as he spoke her true name — as if tempting fate , cocking a snook at danger . |
| 11 | Before planning the course , look ahead to the text of the coursebook to see if you want to change or omit any material . |
| 12 | The struggle begins when they see many of the things that seem routine to the rest of us as ways of devaluing them . |
| 13 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 14 | The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ . |
| 15 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 16 | Or it could be that the writer believes that he has adequately represented the sound of sh by using the s ; in which case , his auditory analysis is poor . |
| 17 | The Lieutenant recommended that we bring her to you , as she was carrying this . ’ |
| 18 | The lieutenant turned and he said , ‘ Bring him . ’ |
| 19 | The award comes after she sacrificed much of her tennis year , including Wimbledon , to take her A levels . |
| 20 | ( 9 ) A licensing board may refuse to renew a licence provisionally granted under subsection ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above if the board considers that there has been unreasonable delay on the part of the applicant in completing the premises . |
| 21 | The Board said that they deserved their percentage because they had put me in the position to attract the money . |
| 22 | But the Board feels that we 've got to go along with it . |
| 23 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 24 | The Board claimed that it owned the land by virtue of a private Act of Parliament , the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 25 | Analysis of the radioactivity within the seaweed indicates that it had been discharged from Sellafield within the past 12 months or so . |
| 26 | However , the attack , which was thought to have been planned for Kiechle 's 60th birthday party on March 3 in Bavaria , had not taken place and a further letter from the RAF stated that it had been called off due to a " mistake in co-ordination " . |
| 27 | They were three quarters of the way through the meal when Caspar , who did not miss anything any of the giants said and who had , in fact , long since perfected the art of listening to three different conversations at once , suddenly went rather white and made frantic gestures to Fenella . |
| 28 | We should be able to tell you something of the nature of the fastenings used but I doubt if we can say whether a body was involved . |
| 29 | The princes of the realms decided that they needed someone to rally round and lead them in the event that war should come again . |
| 30 | Who does the heart hurt when it sees the unattended pair of shoes ? |