Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | These guys do anything , you know , U turns in the middle of anywhere , they , they can do it , you ca n't . |
| 3 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 4 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 5 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 6 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 7 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 8 | The following month he publicly waived the death sentence hanging over the organizers of the second coup attempt of 1983 . |
| 9 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 10 | This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities . |
| 11 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 12 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |
| 13 | The groups formed by the females and kids are small , and solitary animals , usually males , are far from uncommon . |
| 14 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 15 | His fierce anti-Common Market views led to a challenge to his candidacy for the South Edinburgh seat in 1973 which he successfully fought off . |
| 16 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 17 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
| 18 | ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike . |
| 19 | But the highest value was put on just being there , the willingness to sit by a bedside and to do more listening than talking , the patience with inconsistencies and sudden reversals of mood and the readiness to come back , week after week . |
| 20 | In addition to the services of every kind asked by the voters , effective management would also involve the politician in substantial expenses , for any major political figure owed it to his position in society to give generously for any public concern . |
| 21 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 22 | Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods . |
| 23 | In its simplest use , the computer sits in a corner and each child has an individual session with relevant material ; so inevitably only a short time would normally be available . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's had a blood leakage into the vitreous humour , ’ Belinda explained unnecessarily , her heart thudding at the sight of him . |
| 25 | Her flesh was vibrantly alert , too sensitive , her heart thudding like a runner 's , wild hot panic flooding her reactivated mind . |
| 26 | I heard a terrible pounding in my ears , my heart thudding like a drum , my stomach lurching as I swung on the end of the rope . |
| 27 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 28 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 29 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 30 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |