Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We came off the track so many times in deep snow . |
| 2 | If no semantic or pragmatic restrictions are applied during the parsing of the sentence then many parses are suggested that are semantically or pragmatically infeasible . |
| 3 | However , this was merely a hangover from the past ; and after the middle of the century even these payments ceased . |
| 4 | By the end of the day almost all universities were occupied or on strike , as were many hospitals . |
| 5 | And here you 've had another example of the way normally these questions work . |
| 6 | If papal provisions worked in some instances under John XXII to the disadvantage of the king , the pope endeavoured where he could to satisfy the king 's wishes , so that at the end of the reign far more bishoprics were occupied by civil servants than in 1307 . |
| 7 | Rural areas do not display the same concentrations of poor housing and poor social conditions , and as a result very few HAAs or GIAs have been declared in them ( Kirby 1977 , ; Dunn et al . |
| 8 | At this time of year , with the flood still some weeks off , the Nile had shrunk back into its bed , uncovering a wide strip of mud , now baked hard and dry and cracked like crazy paving . |
| 9 | but there 's right up the road there all cars |
| 10 | Her mind was preoccupied with a moment just several seconds in the future . |
| 11 | Urgency went from his wing-beats , the course he had set from the Park so many weeks before now weakened and drifted . |
| 12 | I mean for a it 's a habit , why he walks like that because he 's come home from the Duke so many times pissed in n it ? |
| 13 | He left after three years without a degree , not from any lack of ability but because he selected from the course only those subjects — analytical and applied chemistry — which appealed to him . |
| 14 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 15 | Earlier in the season so many wasps ( or guêpes , as they call them ) were being caught that the gardener was having to empty the traps twice a day . |
| 16 | ‘ I kept thinking that the bike would break down or something else would happen to me for I 've been in the lead so many times here only to be disappointed . |
| 17 | ‘ Sure , they eat in the café here many times . ’ |
| 18 | In a sense both these events typify what was to follow — the agronomical revolution ! |
| 19 | Some types of marine which do not survive well in an aquarium ie some Butterflies |
| 20 | At first she could see nothing except the river so many floors below them . |
| 21 | Still detached from the actual sensations , she described how he had gone under the water and then come to the surface again several times before finally drowning . |
| 22 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 23 | He 's been told to go to the office so many times it like yeah , yeah , alright ! |
| 24 | It is submitted that this is sensible : if the party seeking to enforce the restraint were required to match the restraint exactly to the interest very few restraints , if any at all , would be found to be reasonable . |
| 25 | If such a rider — or two or three such riders — are at the head of the field on the descent then all bets will be recast . |
| 26 | I 'm trying to keep our dogs out of the lounge cos they 've been on the settee that many times |
| 27 | Last year we got caught on the break too many times … this year we have the pace/organisation to deal with that … and Lukic is nt bad at 1 on 1 's … |
| 28 | It was the same job he had started with at the Zoo so many years before . |
| 29 | S5 At the moment very few pupils elect not to try Higher . |
| 30 | It will be seen from this extract that at a baptism sometimes both parents ' names were recorded , but occasionally only the father 's . |