Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popular " ID is unquestionably a " good constituency TD " — just what the STV enthusiasts want and just what in Ireland the STV does indeed provide . |
| 2 | And on the next day the Zuwaya did indeed muster a majority of 117 votes in the first count . |
| 3 | Erm membership of the Incorporated Society of Musicians which comes at about seventy eight pounds a year does actually include public liability |
| 4 | Between the death of Jane Austen and the appearance of Sketches by Boz the emphasis does however begin to shift from the greatest houses to those below them . |
| 5 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 6 | As a result of the well-publicized vagaries of the British electoral system the Conservatives did indeed have more seats than Labour ( 321 to 295 ) although Labour had more votes in the country as a whole ( 13.9 million to 13.7 million ) . |
| 7 | There are many groups ( 4000 in Birmingham alone ) and it is difficult to boil all interests down to something called " class " ; on a number of issues ( and at certain levels of the state ) we can discover a pattern of competitive interest-group politics in which no one group appears to be overwhelmingly dominant ; and on occasions the state does simply referee the group struggle and is content to ratify the outcome of the balance of competing forces . |
| 8 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |