Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production .
2 They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up .
3 People who have been held awkwardly may in their turn be stiff , ashamed of nudity or partial nudity , or carry a fantasy that if only the scene were properly set , rosy lights dimly aglow , all would come right .
4 It is a measure of Gray 's single-minded devotion to anatomy and authorship that ‘ Gray 's Anatomy ’ remains even today , not only an important book of reference but as virtually a household phrase .
5 Cows were spayed in full milk and when eventually the supply was uneconomic , the animal was fat and ready for the butcher .
6 Some of these will be remembered for years to come , not only in Halling but where ever the cement barges called .
7 Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs .
8 Professional men would look in to buy cigars and while away the time , and Alfred Oliver was an expert on cigars and respectful , if not servile , to his auspicious customers .
9 This is a serious omission , redolent of the old habits of thought that if only the public will trust Whitehall , all will be well .
10 The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally .
11 Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own .
12 Gradually they gained the upper hand and after almost a week of savage fighting the Germans began to fall back .
13 I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging .
14 In many absolutist states the myth that if only the Tsar or the Führer knew about the people 's grievances he would act to resolve them was carefully fostered by state propaganda and even more so in Romania by the Securitate 's rumour machine .
15 ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’
16 The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate .
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