Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to make a few comments , as a mainly urban cyclist who also rides for recreation and covers about 9,000 miles a year . |
| 2 | If you roll a number on the artillery dice then this is the distance in inches the missile veers off target as shown by the arrow on the scatter dice . |
| 3 | If you roll a number on the artillery dice then this is the distance in inches the missile veers off target as shown by the arrow on the scatter dice . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which has n't said yet if it 's using NT , has Microsoft helping it support HP 's 4mm digital audio tape ( DAT ) drives for backup and archiving : Microsoft Corp will make it an icon on the NT screen . |
| 5 | As long as the Bill goes through Committee and receives a Third Reading , the King 's Cross project will go ahead regardless of the timing of the link between the channel tunnel and London . |
| 6 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 7 | This meant removing metal covers during flight and delving inside the set with a small screwdriver , trying not to get a shock . |
| 8 | This dual usage makes them seem to fill the limbo-land that lies between rhythm and lead approaches , and therefore an ability to play them fluently is a more-or-less essential guitar skill . |
| 9 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 10 | Former policeman Grant , a sociology student when Julie met him six years ago , stays at home , looks after Maisie and keeps house . |
| 11 | Is there anybody who lives nearer Leeds that has heard anything about demos. etc ? |
| 12 | Heyward , of whom I have just made mention , writes of Jesus as follows : ‘ Jesus matters only if he was fully , and only , human . ’ |
| 13 | Now retired , Gordon Hampton lives near Sheffield and continues to take an active interest in the RAF as President of the Sheffield branch of the RAF Association . |
| 14 | As yet unfamiliar to a British audience , they are Darren Largo from this country , and two German sculptors , Werner Haypeter and Gloria Friedman , who lives near Dijon and has been the subject of a recent exhibition at the Moderne Kunst Museum in Vienna . |
| 15 | Lord Zetland who lives near Ripon and lists his recreations as horse-racing and lawn tennis but not mountaineering was in the team for the second year . |
| 16 | Materials are generally stainless steel , porcelain-covered cast iron , or the new plastic substance which looks like marble and makes a neat and effective all-in-one counter and sink . |
| 17 | He looks like hell and sounds awful … the nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation |
| 18 | He looks like hell and sounds awful , but then , as he 's the first to admit , he always did . |
| 19 | Your major concern lies with understanding and analysing this body of information — the " why " and " how " of History , rather than the " what " . |
| 20 | However , one major difference has been that the mind of an individual develops with time and becomes better at the tasks it undertakes , whereas computers , with certain limited exceptions , perform at the same level of ability until replaced by a better machine or a better program . |
| 21 | But this image of autonomy and of the self can be threatening , too , to women who do have a strong allegiance to feminism ; and the threat intersects with assumptions that have been made in some feminist discourse about who is or is not ‘ really ’ a feminist . |
| 22 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 23 | Since NC protein interacts with DNA and has nucleic acid annealing activities , an additional role during reverse transcription could be envisioned . |
| 24 | At an inclusive cost per golfer of £50 , the Academy day starts with breakfast and includes tuition given on an individual basis ; a group lesson ; a four-course lunch with wine ; Stableford competition and a champagne reception and prize-giving . |
| 25 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals , ’ he said . |
| 27 | So dressed and fed , he bites with sarcasm and slashes with ridicule the class that despises him . ’ |
| 28 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 29 | Some of them are renegades from the Dwarf Engineers Guild which frowns upon innovation and regards much of the Empire 's new technology as a heinous break with ancient tradition . |
| 30 | No , you polish your armour till it gleams , you sharpen your lance and you mount your white charger , you raise your banner , you bid farewell to the grieving city , where the crowd stands in terror and hope at your preparations and your parting . |