Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the behavioural point of view , the principal male characteristic is sadistic sexual egoism , since is it clear that only the male who is capable of driving off his rivals can hold on to the females of the breeding group . |
| 2 | This and also the danger which , as it seems to me , lurks in the encouragement of judicial excursions into the parliamentary preserve of legislative policy , may be illustrated by reference to two cases . |
| 3 | Nor , for example , will it follow without being made explicit that only the majority whose decision is sufficient to exercise the power need be the signatories to any expulsion notice or that more than one partner can be expelled at the same time by the same notice . |
| 4 | Yeah I know all that but I 'm not taking the piss out of that cos obviously the way he said it ! |
| 5 | We have to be absolutely sure that only the pollen we want reaches the stigma . |
| 6 | If the system has been written in a modular way ( i.e. the individual components of a system are intelligently partitioned , allowing each module to see all and only the input it requires ) then the modification is greatly simplified . |
| 7 | See chapter 4 and also the extract which follows . |
| 8 | as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’ |
| 9 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 10 | Liam Brady 's choice of more or less the side who lost to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup the previous weekend — Rudi Vata was replaced by Brian O'Neil — was not so much a vote of confidence as a challenge to those players to prove they could not be so bad again . |
| 11 | Yet the presentation of the book , and Lowry 's text , often speak of a fascination with the Princess that is more than simply the fascination one can derive from the exercise of deconstructing an image . |
| 12 | Look why not come down to my cottage now , and we 'll have lunch there — I never have much more than just a picnic myself — then we can go across this afternoon , and maybe take tea to have on the island ? |
| 13 | You may need to purchase more than just the anemone you require . |
| 14 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 15 | To decide which one is right for you , you have to consider more than just the job you do . |
| 16 | Well John was saying to me , that eh , Bill is such a perfectionist that although he 's done good works already , he will ensure that every single corner of that house will be immaculate and exactly the way he wants it , but it 'll take him three or four years to do it . |
| 17 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 18 | Having won the Australian Open and now the French it means that Seles is on a Grand Slam roll , though she swiftly pointed out that Wimbledon 's grass might be her downfall . |
| 19 | Likewise young females have the problem of choosing mates that will provide them with vigorous young and possibly the assistance they need to rear them . |
| 20 | Statistics show it is a common experience , but for the individuals involved , it is almost always traumatic and frequently a crisis which shatters their whole way of life . ’ |
| 21 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 22 | Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be . |
| 23 | But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door . |
| 24 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |