Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 2 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 3 | I 'd be more'n happy to move out of this tied cottage and have the comfort of our own place , and I reckon with what Harry 's offered , we 'll soon have enough to buy summat small in Calking village , and if'n you doant want to come with me , Will Pritchett , then you can stay on here by yourself . |
| 4 | Wattana secured frame seven with 55 but the world No 2 won through with another run of 44 . |
| 5 | To cancel unc to its lowest terms : Notice we neatly cross out the 18 and 27 and put above them the number of times 9 goes in to each . |
| 6 | Genies and lamps , Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves , and Sinbad the Sailor all come out of that civilisation and end up singing Neighbours down at theatres across the land . |
| 7 | Women Resistance and Revolution , Women I Consciousness Man I World , Hidden from History and A new World for Women all came out of this preoccupation . |
| 8 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 9 | It was a lovely looking rabbit but it was wasting its time all cooped up in that cage ! ’ |
| 10 | The situation was concealed in 1968 and 1969 as short-term capital was attracted to US banks by high interest rates : $12 billion flowed in during those two years , more than covering the long-term capital outflow . |
| 11 | And yet the author of so many adulatory sermons preached before James I cries out in these private prayers , ‘ Deliver me from making Gods of Kings ! ’ |