Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later le li years leaving his wife behind him cos she was unable to go , and going to serve his God therein , where is the blessing in that if this is how we take God 's blessing ? |
| 2 | True men prepare their food as we do |
| 3 | Heseltine claimed that the Prime Minister failed at these ad hoc groups to get her way , which was to ‘ close off the European option ’ for the Westland rescue . |
| 4 | Males erm are rather coy and , and retiring and er submit to er females planting their eggs inside their pouches . |
| 5 | Instead , the Lo Lifes reserve their vitriol for Ralph Lauren himself . |
| 6 | Cos we came in and Chrissy , instead of switching on the children 's programmes put his computer on so we did n't see it . |
| 7 | Newcastle 's attempts to bolster their midfield foundered yesterday when their manager , Jim Smith , failed to reach agreement with Chelsea 's Micky Hazard . |
| 8 | But the EC Commission doubted America could provide a global standard , even though Europe 's attempts to set its own standard are mired . |
| 9 | He can even indirectly , but effectively , interfere with the legal owner 's attempts to enforce his legal rights by action in the Common Law Courts . |
| 10 | The dramatic July developments were triggered by the government 's attempts to use its new legislative majority to circumvent normal procedure and enact a series of controversial measures prior to the conclusion of the current legislative session in late July . |
| 11 | The problem is that Osborne 's attempts to underline his point by the ‘ subversive ’ use of Mozartian instruments ( horns tuned in semitonally clashing keys , Anton Stadler 's clarinets performing Stravinskian arabesques ) result in music which I found neither diverting nor in itself particularly thought-provoking . |
| 12 | Seriously , Wide Awake 's begrudging attitude towards the Lower Ormeau 's attempts to boost its morale is as shameful as it is wrong . |
| 13 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 14 | The Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 15 | THE Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 16 | In some cases the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where virtually none had existed : this was most evident in the Baltic provinces dominated by a Germanic aristocracy and in the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland . |
| 17 | In areas such as the Baltic provinces and the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland , the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where little had existed . |
| 18 | Since then Lord Aldington has reached separate agreement with the other defendant and Count Tolstoy 's attempts to have his damages overturned have failed . |
| 19 | The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter 's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment . |
| 20 | Feelings are running high about the brick company 's attempts to change their existing tipping permission for inert waste to allow the dumping of domestic and non-hazardous commercial refuse . |
| 21 | This approach also suggests that the most important language is that which represents the child 's attempts to express her own needs and intentions rather than language which arises as the child tries to express ideas supplied by the teacher . |
| 22 | There are no men 's groups asserting their rights . |
| 23 | However , in an interview with Dutch television on 1 October , the Russian Minister for Culture and Tourism , Yevgeniy Sidorov , did say that the drawings had been ‘ found ’ on Russian soil , and that an invitation had been issued to the Dutch ambassador to come and ‘ verify ’ the collection , which was probably moved last year to the monastery of Pavloviy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) in an attempt by the Pushkin museum 's authorities to save their reputations after repeated accusations had been made against them both by Russians and the Dutch . |
| 24 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 25 | In this last period of devastation even the gorse bruiser and the rest of the Collector 's inventions met their doom . |
| 26 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 27 | In long-run equilibrium , we would expect the real return on a firm 's investments to equal its cost of capital , i.e. r= p . |
| 28 | Those who will not be God 's sons become his tools ’ ; and Ilúvatar to Melkor , ‘ no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me … he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful , which he himself hath not imagined ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 29 | The first , shown at the beginning of October , included an interview with Corporate Affairs Minister Neil Hamilton , discussed the Institute of Taxation 's fears about the ICAEW Tax Faculty 's proposals to set its own examinations , and looked at three training issues : cashflow statements , the new Inland Revenue rules on company cars , and the Government proposals on compulsory competitive training . |
| 30 | Then Fif 's mandroids pushed their way through , and in the melee I managed to scuttle on hands and knees among all the legs before getting up and getting myself and my aching face away from there . |