Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 2 | Ceylon Tamils , many of whose ancestors had lived in Sri Lanka for perhaps one thousand years , lived mostly in the Northern and Eastern Provinces , outside the purview of this book . |
| 3 | The tube I was in on Wednesday had to go slowly through a deserted and evacuated Victoria Station and one 's heart beats a little fast wondering if something will go off . |
| 4 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 5 | A low Mughal gateway led on into a wet and glistening flagstone courtyard ; it was deserted but for a solitary pupil running late towards his class . |
| 6 | Here and there an effort has been made at renovation , but always in deplorable taste , ‘ Georgian ’ bay windows or Scandinavian-style pine porches clapped on to the Victorian and Edwardian facades . |
| 7 | However , although Professor Plumb suggests the participation of " better-off " tradesmen he clearly sees the leisure industry as catering mostly for the expanding and increasingly prosperous middle class . |
| 8 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 9 | In each the primitive , sometimes bestial is joined obdurately to the modern and sophisticated . |
| 10 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 11 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 12 | In the words of the circular issued by the Ministry of Health ( 1961 ) : ‘ Attempted suicide is in the future to be regarded entirely as a medical and social problem … . |
| 13 | The debate about overseas government expenditure may be seen as in one sense straightforward — an unsurprising clash of departmental interests , which , given the political weight of the participants , led only to a gradual though cumulative reduction in commitments . |
| 14 | A broad staircase led down into a hushed and panelled hallway . |
| 15 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 16 | Though outnumbered the Nez Perce fought valiantly in a gallant but vain attempt to reach Canada and to find sanctuary . |
| 17 | The silence continued , broken only by the shrieking and quarrelling of crows and parakeets . |
| 18 | The silence that followed was broken only by the buzzing and blundering of insects , the uninterrupted beating of cricket legs . |
| 19 | We start by bringing together in a compact and comparative form the key data for the various groups of intermediaries , in Table 4.3 . |
| 20 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 21 | Seating ourselves on the trunk of an old ash-tree that stretched along the ground , Coleridge read aloud with a sonorous and musical voice , the ballad of Betty Foy . |
| 22 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 23 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 24 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 25 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 26 | Perform combination techniques on the move so that you are able to work effectively in a retreating as well as an advancing mode . |
| 27 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 28 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 29 | The second is directed towards the sculptured shapes found mostly in the aeronautical and motor industries . |
| 30 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |