Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |
| 2 | It was empty except for an ox and ass who snorted and brayed a greeting . |
| 3 | A typical house church is marked by the exercise of some or all of the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12 and by a belief that scriptural prophecy is being fulfilled today . |
| 4 | The hospital staff have the skills to care for these patients such that after a month or two their behaviour improves and they become suitable for private care . |
| 5 | If their babies are to thrive , they must have a cave that is warm , humid and with a temperature that varies hardly at all between day and night . |
| 6 | Mental disturbance requiring such security is often short-lived and within a week or two the person may be well enough to enjoy the normal freedoms accorded other patients . |
| 7 | It seems likely that for a parent or spouse , the experience may well be comparable to the sorts of events and difficulties implicated in depression . |
| 8 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 9 | This is work they are able to do little about , despite public faith , and it is unpopular because of a reluctance or inability to display that little will be done . |
| 10 | If there is a particular liability that is causing concern which has been identified prior to contract but is not precisely quantifiable , it may be appropriate that it should not be covered by a warranty at all but by an indemnity or other specific provision . |
| 11 | All because of a brake that was |
| 12 | Again , a Rule 72 Transfer is equally applicable as between a leasehold or freehold property . |
| 13 | If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls . |
| 14 | Dr Taylor gives another example of the Spirit of God drawing a man to Jesus in circumstances that were very unpropitious and through a medium that was to say the least opaque . |
| 15 | Or a straight down blind but at an angle but er but on runners to hold , yeah . |
| 16 | In this it distinguishes between the ‘ intrinsic ’ and ‘ schema ’ aesthetic except for an insistence that depth counter responses be firmly based upon observations of the perceptual surface . |
| 17 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 18 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 19 | It would be a great shame to see shoppers travel from miles to the jewel in the crown of Darlington only to discover all the spaces in one of the town 's most central car parks had been snapped up and no more were available because of a council and a car park company going round in circles . |
| 20 | In addition , many local people , regarding the environment as something to be exploited in order to make a living whether as a farmer or as a fisherman , had little sympathy for the idea of landscape protection or conservation . |
| 21 | His scrawny body was naked except for a loincloth and the tattered remains of a jerkin . |
| 22 | She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint . |
| 23 | Cos these are exactly the same except with a well and two erm those four holes missing . |
| 24 | He had a fishing boat of his own and after a year or so on the island had adapted to the life as a native . |
| 25 | It will not normally be used on its own but as a facing or interlayer in composite materials . |
| 26 | Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today . |
| 27 | The A G M , the last two years people have said well there 's not a great deal of point in coming along other than for a drink because er the committee 's got it all sorted out , you know , beforehand as regards who 's doing what . |
| 28 | Under regulations introduced in 1982 , any overseas visitor who falls sick and requires treatment other than in an accident or emergency will be charged for his or her treatment on a special scale of charges reflecting the ‘ full cost ’ of the care . |
| 29 | It must surely be significant that in an age when the evidence for women as writers is so sparse , two out of the five writers here discussed are women and that both present their spirituality nourished by physical debility , coloured by gender-specific terms , and very evidently rooted in the affective piety stimulated by the visual iconography of the Incarnation ; although both found these to be factors which precipitated their experience of transcendent being and for Julian , in particular , they triggered her sense of that which is ineffable . |
| 30 | The information concerning the board 's investigation was also imparted to the Bank expressly on terms that it was highly sensitive and with a request that it be kept confidential . |