Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for all that , Reagan was not without experience highly relevant to the demands of executive leadership in the 1980s . |
| 2 | Contemporary locomotives are carved on their headstones , which also bear nauseating rhyming epitaphs of the kind so beloved by the Victorians . |
| 3 | By the number of enemy dead lying about the fields and approaches to the village , the British attacks have finally forced them to move out , taking shelter in a slit trench during a German mortar attack , everyone keeping their heads down . |
| 4 | In March , a judicial inquest into the death of 42 people in Sebokeng township in September 1990 concluded with the presiding judge finding members of the South African Defence Force criminally responsible for the deaths of four people and rejected claims that the concerned were provoked to shoot in self-defence . |
| 5 | And to cap it all , the Brahms and Beethoven so beloved of the buffs was going through amp stages by the score , before and during transmission . |
| 6 | The problem is this : if the accused 's intention is to rape and he is in the same position as in Brown with the top half of his body in the building , is his entry therein effective for the purposes of the rape form of burglary ? |
| 7 | Finding the right anaesthetic , so that one can keep the chick functionally alive for the hours required for the recording , proved surprisingly tricky . |
| 8 | The conversion was from the left and well to the left , but kicker Missimo Bonomi waited until the charging Irish seven were almost on top of him before sending a high , curling attempt just wide of the posts . |
| 9 | This cadre of full-time resident tutors was supplemented by other part-time tutors usually resident within the localities of branches and centres at which courses were arranged . |
| 10 | Immense light still bright behind the edges |
| 11 | In the eighteenth century British consumption , rising steadily at a bit over 2 per cent a year , was more buoyant than the re-export trade , which made the British preferential tariff more advantageous to the planters . |
| 12 | This showed us that integration saves time and duplication , and makes the programme more interesting for the students . |
| 13 | Even colonies which did not have direct religious origins would have religious commitments ; Virginia had been launched in as secular-minded a mood as almost any colony but it remained firmly attached to the forms of the Church of England , though the lack of regular episcopal organization made its clergy more responsive to the wishes of their congregations than was usually the case in England . |
| 14 | Such an exercise will serve not only to sensitize the American reader to the distinctive features of the British polity but also to make readers more aware of the features of their own polity . |
| 15 | Our aim will be to give tenants a choice of landlord wherever possible , and make management of both council and housing association stock more responsive to the needs of tenants . |
| 16 | Durium records probably came nearest to making sound recordings really accessible to the masses , forming a gramophonic equivalent of the paper-backed book . |
| 17 | With Brussels seemingly uninterested in the problems facing British trade publishers in trying to protect their UK territorial rights against single market requirements while US editions wash about the Continent , and with US publishers deaf to arguments that Community law effectively means the end of the open market of Europe , UK publishers continue to put out early export editions simply to compete with US publishers in a market that still behaves as if it were open . |
| 18 | I mean , they , they spell a lot of words quite different to the others . |
| 19 | Tillyard suggested the principle of order was so taken for granted by the age that it was rarely directly articulated — ‘ the utter commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of except in explicitly didactic passages , but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion ’ . |
| 20 | Naturally , most pretesting effort should be put into areas thought likely to present problems and areas most crucial to the purposes of the survey . |
| 21 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 22 | There was then a general discussion , along lines somewhat reminiscent of the dialogues of Plato , though perhaps Nicholas , who guided and recorded the sessions , had also in mind the proceedings of the lay oratories which he had visited in Italy . |
| 23 | Though it is often suggested that Metastrongylus may transmit some of the porcine viruses , and may enhance the effect of viruses already present in the lungs , the role of the worm is not conclusively proven . |
| 24 | In principal , a character may be armed with any weapon or piece of equipment normally available to the Mobs , but this does not include special weapons such as a Fanatic 's ball and chain , or a Squig Hunter 's prodder for example . |
| 25 | Regardless of the pit closure programme ta erm we 're in full flight erm at the end of the day we could be looking at a situation with four pits remaining in Nottinghamshire er and to that extent there 'll be up to four thousand miners still reliant on the services of , should er remain open . |
| 26 | Lessons learnt at their father 's knee have made Henry Keswick , the chairman of Jardine Matheson , and his influential brother Simon deeply suspicious of the bosses in Beijing . |
| 27 | They 've launched a campaign to make young people and their parents more aware of the dangers of drugs like ecstasy . |
| 28 | The adverts are designed to shock abusers and make parents more aware of the dangers . |
| 29 | Here are not the terraces of single-storey cottages common to most Highland villages but dignified residences more akin to the suburbs of a large town . |
| 30 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |