Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the great majority of those cases nothing goes wrong . |
| 2 | Between these operations I did occasional voluntary work , mainly on an archaeological site . |
| 3 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 4 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 5 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 6 | I say a Supertravel ad for a ridiculously cheap week and phoned to find that the price applied not to St Anton , Val d'Isere , Verbier or any of the top resorts I considered worthy of my attention , but to a place called Argentiere which had only seven lifts . |
| 7 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 8 | Boss Malcolm Crosby , after SUNDERLAND 'S 5–2 disaster at PETERBOROUGH , said : ‘ It is the fans I feel sorry for . ’ |
| 9 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 10 | It was passed on to me , as your commanding officer , to take whatever steps I felt necessary . |
| 11 | During those months I became anxious , short-tempered and critical . |
| 12 | ‘ When I had been here about six months I became aware of certain tensions both in the diocese and amongst the Cathedral clergy , the Chapter . |
| 13 | ‘ Joe knows that when I do n't train with the lads I do extra training on my own . |
| 14 | When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant . |
| 15 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 16 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 17 | There are also characteristics which show specific disadvantage to women . |
| 18 | In the White Paper ’ Employment for the 1990s ’ , we recognised that the industry has particular characteristics which create peculiar problems for training . |
| 19 | Reserved offer combinations which prove irrelevant , for the opposing reasons that applications for them are abundant or virtually non-existent , are dispensed with . |
| 20 | Remarkably , compounds which showed particular promise as drugs became routinely discussed by number alone , although everyone knew the chemistry behind them . |
| 21 | It is now taken to mean the compound benzene , C H , or compounds which have similar structures and properties to benzene . |
| 22 | Much of this is due to the magnificent Court carpets of the 16th and 17th centuries which grace Western museums , and the 18th and 19th-century masterpieces to be found in royal palaces and stately homes throughout the world . |
| 23 | Every day , wrote one social investigator , the ‘ old methods which require manual skill and long practice are being superseded by the progress of mechanical invention . |
| 24 | Traditional drainage has accelerated this problem in two ways : by promoting farming methods which require high levels of fertilizer , and by stripping out the buffer of vegetation between the riverside and the fields . |
| 25 | There also exists a range of specialised repair methods which use epoxy resins . |
| 26 | to provide a range of data acceptance and printing methods which allow simple links to a variety of other text processing systems |
| 27 | The clearest example of considerations which affect authoritative decisions but which do not apply to individuals acting on their own are considerations arising out of the needs and limitations of bureaucracies . |
| 28 | Two styles which maximise thick hair . |
| 29 | The interplay between semantic and social conditioning factors may then be interpreted as reflecting differential preferences by social groups for certain communicative styles which involve different degrees of assertiveness . |
| 30 | There is a deceptive simplicity about such lists which requires extensive effort to ensure a comprehensive but coherent content . |