Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 2 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 3 | The gradual extension of the state 's role in crime control certainly affected some sorts of crime , particularly property crime , but government institutions rarely worked in the ways intended by higher officials . |
| 4 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 5 | Are any weatherproof switches properly protected from the elements ? |
| 6 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 7 | Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) . |
| 8 | Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side . |
| 9 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 10 | Exit offended alter-ego with money enough to go to the pictures . |
| 11 | The very high bore tides rarely occured during the hours of darkness , but he knew this one was predicted to be a twenty seven footer , and that meant danger . |
| 12 | Harry walked on , his face like thunder , his fists still clenched , his self-esteem badly bruised from the catcalls and laughter of the village . |
| 13 | And the second stranger slowly approached from the shadows , his pale face looking frightened . |
| 14 | This opposition eventually developed into the Resources Protection Campaign . |
| 15 | Blood slowly coagulated round the edges of the gash . |
| 16 | In a statement yesterday , the police chiefs said : ‘ The association wholeheartedly agrees with the views expressed by Mr Adair . |
| 17 | And we meet the couple whose wedding literally started on the rocks . |
| 18 | It has also been pointed out previously that coordinate singularities necessarily occur in the regions II and III that contain the approaching waves . |
| 19 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
| 20 | And in the bathroom , she had been allowed to use one of the tiny , individual soap shells especially provided for the guests , and to keep it afterwards . |
| 21 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 22 | In 1986 , Coleman had struck up a friendship at the Larnaca marina with Fohad Beaini , a lively boat-builder better known around the docks as Abou Talar . |
| 23 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 24 | I am satisfied that the promise was understood by all parties only to apply under the conditions prevailing at the time when it was made , namely , when the flats were only partially let , and that it did not extend any further than that . |
| 25 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 26 | Dynjandi is almost frozen at its sides , the light brilliantly reflected from the rivulets of snow and ice . |
| 27 | ‘ No means no , my brother/Are you deaf in your ear , motherfucker ? ’ , is the chorus , catchy enough to stick in the minds of youthful listeners . |
| 28 | The images together speak of the losses within language incurred through the passages of migration — losses accrued through violation , silence and often subtlety . |
| 29 | The nose dipped further , and the flame suddenly raced along the wings and around the cockpit . |
| 30 | Bleak black branches suddenly shone with the colours of dark red buds , of shining bark , of pale dry trunks that caught the sun and held it in their sinuous heights . |