Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examination of case notes of patients officially recorded as dying of asthma showed that many were aged over 60 and cigarette smokers . |
| 2 | Taken from 190 miles above , the film shows pollution in rivers and oceans , the extent of rainforest destruction from burning and major silt damage in rivers as far apart as the Mississippi , the Yangtze and the Betsiboka in Madagascar . |
| 3 | Makes me hair stand on end just thinking about it . ’ |
| 4 | Leukaemia cases in children under four were almost double the expected number in rural areas which had the highest concentrations of oil-related workers . |
| 5 | We have to challenge and defeat ageist attitudes in Britain today so that older people can feel proud to be old . |
| 6 | Roy Whiffin , who retired from Star Link Chains in Fleet just over 2 years ago , was awarded a silver medal at this year 's 62nd International Model Engineer and Modelling Exhibition at Olympia in London . |
| 7 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 8 | Thus , the 700 base pairs of homology downstream of the PstI site ( 23 , 30 ) was sufficient for integration into an intact beta-tubulin gene to occur . |
| 9 | a body of experience in the submission of advanced course proposals for validation now exists , and is being eagerly tapped by staff from other departments who are now preparing Phase 2 submissions . |
| 10 | By helping practitioners in user education to share experience and expertise , the clearinghouses will surely raise this base level of quality even further . |
| 11 | As Bowen ( 1985 ) has pointed out , the contribution of I. A. Richards is often ignored , yet it is his prescription for the ‘ close reading ’ of texts which is the basis of most school and university teaching of English today . |
| 12 | The Group holds afternoon meetings in London once a term . |
| 13 | Fixing kitchen units to walls always poses problems for the ‘ one-man ’ DIYer , but it can be simplified . |
| 14 | Optional extra is to have the BBC Head of Sports Coverage figure with tongue firmly up the arse of aforementioned spit . |
| 15 | I walked home on air across the Esplanade des Invalides and bored everyone with his parting words for weeks afterwards . |
| 16 | For example : Sentence Graphics 1 John gets up Stick figure in bed then standing by bed 2 John gets dressed Clothes appear on stick figure 3 John eats breakfast food on breakfast table disappears 4 John gets the bus to Stick figure leaves house , school waits at bus stop , is collected by bus 5 He plays football in the Stick boys play football yard Example 4 : parts of speech . |
| 17 | However , to get some idea of the true impact , it is essential to put a comprehensive monitoring programme in place as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Have erm Did you have West Side Story practice after school today ? |
| 19 | The initiate Marines would not of course practice with boltguns here , where shells could speed onward unimpeded by atmosphere or gravity , perhaps striking some incoming ship . |
| 20 | Text books of mycology typically end the chapter on Laboulbeniales with a statement on their economic and commercial insignificance . |
| 21 | A WOMAN died while swimming with Fungy the TV dolphin off the West Coast of Ireland yesterday . |
| 22 | THE newest submarine for the Royal Navy had to make an emergency ascent during trials off the west coast of Scotland yesterday after fears of contamination to her air supplies . |
| 23 | WITH saviours like the European Community 's bureaucrats , the electronics industry of Europe hardly needs enemies . |
| 24 | Norwich City0 Sunderland1 THE John Byrne and Malcolm Crosby FA Cup roadshow has rolled all the way to Wembley after Sunderland overcame First Division opposition at Hillsborough yesterday to squeeze through to their first final in 19 years . |
| 25 | YOUNG Hustler , normally a Saturday runner , has his routine disrupted with a midweek engagement at Worcester today . |
| 26 | Bill Biddlecomb is the man who deserves a name check for organising the skating side of things there . |
| 27 | The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association . |
| 28 | The numbers used to label the aperture settings on cameras therefore form a series of numbers with a ratio of 2 : 1 , 1.4 , 2 , 2.8 , 4 , 5.6 , 8 , 11 , 16 , 22 , 32 . |
| 29 | The Royal Agricultural Society of England has set up a working party , under the chairmanship of Sir Derek Barber , following the challenge laid down by HRH Prince of Wales earlier this year at the society 's annual lecture . |
| 30 | The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening . |