Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in . |
| 2 | Being a Special is unpaid and therefore commitment to the job is all important . |
| 3 | Najibullah , the PDPA general secretary since May 1986 and hitherto Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Presidium , was on Nov. 30 , 1987 , elected by the Loya Jirga as President of the Republic and C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces for a ( renewable ) seven-year term [ ibid . ] . |
| 4 | When you start is to do a thing , put that mallet down like that and then line up the which you need to go . |
| 5 | The resources necessary to discharge the functions of a surveying practice may not be scarce , but these functions grow increasingly costly and therefore efficiency in the application of those resources is essential in running a successful practice . |
| 6 | The Ferguson-developed 4wd system , which directs power between the front and rear wheels in a fixed 34/66 per cent ratio , is effective and durable but hardly state of the art . |
| 7 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |
| 9 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 10 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 11 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
| 12 | Nowadays it seems there 's much more than just food to a perfect picnic . |
| 13 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 14 | The only allies left were the Iceni and possibly Bodvoc of the northern Dubunni . |
| 15 | If cells from the region of the early embryo that will normally give rise to the eye are grafted into the region that will form the gut the cells do not form an eye any more but just part of the gut . |
| 16 | The jet crashed in a ball of flame , destroying 15 cars and damaging 10 more but further evidence of the good fortune became clear yesterday with the sight of the aircraft wreckage embedded in mud . |
| 17 | But marine biologist and shark specialist Richard Fitzpatrick , of Oceanworld marine park , Sydney , said the two attacks were coincidental and not part of an emerging trend . |
| 18 | The winning school tennis team , for example , will be taken to the All England Club to see the Wimbledon Museum , followed by a coaching session with Cox , former British No. 1 and currently Director for the Rover Junior Tennis Initiative , and Hutchins , the former National Team Manager and Davis Cup Captain . |
| 19 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |
| 20 | Our reception is most gratifying — for it is enthusiastic and really kind in the highest degree … |
| 21 | The upwards and outwards inclination of the kite either side of centre is what provides lateral stability . |
| 22 | Let's get the message over , let's go without one congress and I know that 's near to John 's heart and request the other unions , A E U , U C A T , T N G , request the T N , T U C to do the same and then plaster over every bus in Britain , the G M B's policy . |
| 23 | Thus a company directly created by special Act of Parliament will be restricted to acts necessary or reasonably incident to the objects specified in the Act . |
| 24 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 25 | What is more , the funny side of John 's situation is made explicit in the tale by lines which indicate the fundamentally urbane and clerkly bias of the humour of the fabliau : The laugh is on the uneducated man who thought his common sense better than the clerks ' sophistry ( 3448 – 91 ) . |