Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clinton claims new , higher estimates of the US government 's budget deficit forced him to sharply revise his election platform . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ suggested Grimm , ‘ a Chaos storm warped them from whatever they were before ? |
| 3 | MR JOHN BROWNE , former Conservative MP for Winchester , who was ousted by his party and is now running against the Conservative candidate , is circulating election literature describing himself as the ‘ Conservative ’ and telling unsuspecting Tories not to ‘ split the vote ’ , writes Robert Shrimsley . |
| 4 | But he repeated his promise that there would be extra help for poor pensioners and families on income support to assist them in meeting increased heating bills . |
| 5 | The monitoring function helps us in making decisions by comparing past situations to the current situation . |
| 6 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 7 | Mountain lifts : The Valluga Peak cable car takes you to 9,220 ft and a magnificent view . |
| 8 | A cable car takes you from nearby Ehrwald to the Zugspitzkamm station at 9,203 feet which has been partly blasted out of the rock . |
| 9 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 10 | Angry , embarrassed and under close guard , he was flown to London where a Ministry of Defence car rushed him to Ramsgate , in Kent . |
| 11 | Philodendron selloum needs plenty of space to spread . |
| 12 | A defence lawyer described it as ‘ a very tragic case ’ . |
| 13 | By contrast jadeite contains plenty of alumina and soda , only weakly present in nephrite . |
| 14 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |
| 15 | The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute . |
| 16 | The British Rail employee thought nothing of it . |
| 17 | The aspirations of a record company go towards mass hysteria but I do n't think The Wedding Present see it in those terms . |
| 18 | The Natural Break experience has something for everyone — including the wildlife . |
| 19 | The plan is to buy the school from the council and then apply for a governmnet grant to run it like other opted out schools . |
| 20 | Usually the hermit crab utilises a discarded whelk or winkle shell to protect it from predators , but when none is available a plastic jar will do . |
| 21 | In 1896 while sculling at Putney , an oarsman had been sunk by a stone-throwing youth , and in the following year there was a complaint that a yacht 's skylight had been broken at Lambeth Bridge and then ‘ a shower of horse dung greeted us at Chelsea ’ . |
| 22 | The song writer , the hymn writer reminds us in those tremendous words of that other old hymn , when he says nothing in my hand I bring , simply to your cross I cling . |
| 23 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 24 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 25 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 26 | British fashion slaves , who would n't venture into Waitrose without a tasteful mélange of Gaultier , Joseph and Alaïa ( or nearest decent copies ) clamped to their backs , still pack the floral swimsuit Mum bought them in 1976 for a Guide camp trip . |
| 27 | Then a hammer blow struck him below his left shoulder blade , and he was punched violently to the ground by the heavy .32 slug . |
| 28 | The formalist critic dismisses her as a serious contender for the mantle of ‘ modern artist ’ due to a perceived lack of innovation and refusal of the essentialist mandate of formalism . |
| 29 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 30 | But when you do achieve it , you will find that you can then use aerobic walking as part of an ongoing maintenance programme to keep you at your goal weight . |