Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 2 | But , although some doctors consider that the baby has genuine physical pain , others believe that this is an example of the baby reacting to the tensions of the mother at the end of a hard day : and they believe that the crying stops after 10 to 12 weeks because by then the mother has become more competent and confident in her handling of the baby , and has communicated this new calmness to the baby . ’ |
| 3 | There are twelve different types although by far the most common are called ‘ liberty caps ’ , shown below . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 5 | Basically , Mr Porceddu intends to jail every troublemaker in sight — a minimum of two days for offensive drunkenness , automatic detention until at least the first round is over for anything more serious . |
| 6 | It had to be first light because by 8.00am the sun was too bright and hot to bear . |
| 7 | It had to be first light because by 8.00am the sun was too bright and hot to bear . |
| 8 | Thus Everton , a modest sized village since at least the time of Domesday Book , lost its separate identity during the middle decades of the nineteenth century and became a working-class quarter of Liverpool . |
| 9 | CDS is committed to supporting that hardware until at least the year 2000 — it still builds and sells them — though there will be no further additions to the series . |
| 10 | Dolphins have been hunted in Japanese coastal waters since at least the seventeenth century , when drive fisheries were first reported . |
| 11 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 12 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |
| 13 | They lay in a glass case in his dressing-room , displayed , like Turtons ' file , on a cushion of faded red velvet with the shadow of a pistol in darker red where until recently the Colt had been . |
| 14 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | In the early years of British rule the government paid far more attention to the judicial system than to either the police duties of headmen or the establishment of a regular police force . |