Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adv] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not because Miss Jackson 's presence in the Commons will ensure that Labour never forms the Government , but because Mr Letwin is one of the people credited with having invented the poll tax . |
| 2 | High Ashdonian merely extends the principle : here , the way to form any sentence is to repeat terms such as ‘ proportional representation ’ , ‘ partnership ’ , ‘ yes , my friend ’ , and ‘ I tell you this ’ as often as possible . |
| 3 | In Ata'i one might note the careers of six scholars as exceptions , in three of which the subjects changed careers under rather special circumstances , while in the other three Ata'i merely notes the change without comment . |
| 4 | Years coaching black kids in South Africa , his marital ups and downs , his worship for the suspicious Wardle , his boyhood experiences as a film extra which gave him a life-long love of being ‘ on stage ’ , all this satisfactorily answers the question ‘ Why a book from this chap ? ’ |
| 5 | But all this only makes the capacity to travel the more striking when we meet it . |
| 6 | JOHN COLE Pure but powerless Labour still suffers a gap between activists and voters |
| 7 | Chronological ageing simply describes the ticking of the clock , which no one can prevent . |
| 8 | Of those four usually shoots the person they er the person they shoot , yeah ? |
| 9 | The concept of the singular universal thus facilitates a circularity in the argument whereby Sartre can avoid the question which he began by posing . |
| 10 | South Africa-based Transatlantic already holds a majority stake in CapCo but the deal will allow it to make an application to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 11 | ( When a sentence begins with something completely new this usually signals the beginning of a new paragraph . ) |
| 12 | One of the ponies at my local stable always gets a cough and a runny nose when he is stabled in at nights . |