Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 2 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 3 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 4 | She was very pretty , this girl , dressed in a bright green cheong sam , her dark hair gleaming with natural oil , and framing a pert , oriental face . |
| 5 | Beside her Rune looked what he was , she thought — purposeful and determined , master of his own destiny , the skin of his golden jaw so smooth that he must have shaved again before coming to pick her up , his hair gleaming in molten strands as the sunlight played on it . |
| 6 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 7 | The codes used are summarised in Fig 11.13 ; internal in this instance referred to any activity within the EPH system model , and external to those of the wider system of interest or surrounding environment , eg the Department headquarters , Area Offices etc . |
| 8 | Details of EC support received by overseas farmers and information regarding the prices paid and received for their various commodities . |
| 9 | After 20 years ' service the almost total entitlement to remain on full pay , albeit suspended from duty , until the age of 65 . |
| 10 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 11 | What the trust offered was the opportunity to invest in interest-bearing mortgages . |
| 12 | On the contrary , many of the cultures and their interrelationships are deeply marked by relations of discrimination and subordination stemming from structural inequalities . |
| 13 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 14 | The British Isles became , in 1941–43 , a giant aircraft-carrier punished by German raids but giving more than was received as the air war was intensified by 1943 . |
| 15 | I have just done her a return kindness by getting invitations for her and her mother , to the Alumnus of the Year award given by Royal Bank as holder of Chair of European Governmental Studies . |
| 16 | I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps . |
| 17 | It may be argued by analogy that , given the importance under the CPA 1987 placed upon accurate instructions , this should permeate to cases where the buyer sues for economic loss under , for example , s14 of SGA 1979 . |
| 18 | On May 16 the Appeal Court halved the five-year prison sentence given to former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders in August 1990 for " massive fraud " in connection with the Distillers Company takeover bid [ see p. 37662 ] . |
| 19 | LGB opposition to extensions of social legislation was increased due to the reluctance of the Treasury to provide what the Board regarded as adequate staffing . |
| 20 | Erm now the th H S C is saying that erm it should n't have gone skin to skin and they 've stopped skin to skin in other headings . |
| 21 | When the bas-relief on a newly-opened post office was reviewed by The Times , the newspaper 's art correspondent commented with some inspiration , ‘ The design consists of a male and female nude , recumbent , but with a suggestion that they are floating in water . |
| 22 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 23 | This does not mean , however , that one should invest in that declining industry beyond the level justified by short-run returns . |
| 24 | Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages , two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language . |
| 25 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 26 | His interest in physics developed at high school in Washington State where his family moved in 1953 . |
| 27 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 28 | She stopped immediately , her heart thumping in sudden fright as she saw that the chapel was occupied . |
| 29 | White cutaway-collar broadcloth shirt ( Ben Sherman made these ) Club , regimental , etc. striped tie with stick-pin ; grey flannel parallels with normal size turnups , black toe-capped Oxfords . |
| 30 | There is nostalgia , and fantasy — both wonderfully caught in Blake Morrison 's evocative ‘ Turf Moor , and Other Fields of Dreams ’ — and there is fiction filled with four-letter words . |