Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 2 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 3 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 4 | Whilst a number of considerations may limit the resort to force majeure , there is a sufficiency of means once the will to use them is present . |
| 5 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 6 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 7 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 8 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 9 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 10 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 11 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 12 | Crosby has already decided that Irishman Brian Mooney will play on the right side of midfield tonight a vote of confidence after the midfielder 's mistake which provided Charlton with their winning goal on Saturday . |
| 13 | respectively , within this volume M is defined as the inverse of L. Then the tensors are defined as the weighted averages of the tensors of each phase r : thus where is the volume concentration of phase r ( that is ) and , by analogy with the isotropic case discussed earlier on p. 115 , are concentration factor tensors such that and where I is the unit tensor . |
| 14 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 15 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 16 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 17 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 18 | The Laws family ran a bakery in Northgate hence the nickname Teacakes . |
| 19 | This week 14 paintings were put up for auction in London so the gallery could clear its debts and provide grants for artists , particularly students , in the region . |
| 20 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 21 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 22 | the introduction of new semi-automatic machines … the increasing use of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in trades hitherto the exclusive preserve of the skilled man … the adaptation of a rudimentary system of standardised and interchangeable parts … the predominance of factory over the workshop as the unit of production … the introduction of aspects of Taylorism , particularly the premium-bonus system ’ . |
| 23 | Sadly the Metroliner had lost confidence in being a train and wanted to be an airliner instead : the coaches were rounded like a fuselage there were airliner seats with fold-town tables from the seatback in front even a company magazine at each place . |
| 24 | Chamfer the cut edges of pipe to allow easy fitting of the coupling — a few gentle taps with a hammer to chip away the edge is enough . |
| 25 | Remember I 'm no trollop to while away the hours for you . ’ |
| 26 | If there is any predisposition to psychosis then the changes induced can be permanent . |
| 27 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 28 | One more summer term to winter still the house had not looked upon anyone she saw as suitable enough to take on a satisfactory residence within her proud walls , if only she was . |
| 29 | Matthew Le Tissier is in danger of wrecking his England hopes after being sent off in Southampton 's FA Cup defeat at Norwich just a month after England manager Graham Taylor lectured him about his approach . |
| 30 | Set side by side again the pieces do n't exactly match . |