Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BUSINESS which began in a New York loft 35 years ago opened its European headquarters yesterday on the day Clwyd 's Euro-Week began . |
| 2 | A ‘ very high proportion ’ even of the detailed wording of this 1937 text remains in the published version.i Much of The Silmarillion , then , could be seen as chronologically pre- Hobbit , while the Unfinished Tales ( though much more varied in date and nature ) at least contain a good deal of material whose composition preceded the appearance of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 3 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 4 | Ever-enterprising chairman Reg Burr , sensing the chance to make a few bob out of the wave of sentimentality which has greeted the old stadium 's demise , contacted local auctioneers , who will be putting some Den memorabilia under the hammer next Wednesday . |
| 5 | Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them . |
| 6 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 7 | Wildlife is there in profusion from black bear and caribou to no-see-ums and fresh fish out of the river . |
| 8 | STOCK market newcomer Drew Scientific made a promising debut as its shares raced ahead to 155p some 50p ahead of the placement price . |
| 9 | When I read out ‘ La Parure ’ to a writing class , I noticed that the penny dropped with some people just before the author disclosed the secret . |
| 10 | It was only the fact that boards were expensive , Michael thought , that kept some people out of the water . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're having some people in for a drink on Sunday . |
| 12 | And there are some people actually on the beach as well , which I think is important because we 've got a lot of empty area here , fairly featureless area , but it 's nice to have these two or three people er dotted around on the beach . |
| 13 | I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks . |
| 14 | If they did n't take the wrong people in at the end . |
| 15 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 16 | The procession filled all the space there was between buildings , so there were few people about in the street , except peering over shop-ledges or within doorways . |
| 17 | My brother and I are having a few people in for a drink before lunch on Sunday . |
| 18 | I hope it will bring a few people along to the network who will stay for the music afterwards . ’ |
| 19 | Clone H1 42 contains the 700 bp upstream from the transcription start point , cloned into the plasmid Bluescript ( 15 ) . |
| 20 | Their performance , as far as can be judged at this early stage , matches and in some areas surpasses that of their conventionally trained colleagues 300 km away across the Rift Valley . |
| 21 | Suddenly with a tremendous stroke an old man close by threw a tiny fish up in the air and down it fell . |
| 22 | At 0856:58 the crew reported level at 2,500ft , followed 44 sec later by a position report over the MN beacon . |
| 23 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 24 | And John Grierson persistently praised Hitchcock for putting ordinary people on to the screen , while attacking Asquith for making films that reflected ‘ a leisure-class England which has lost contact with fundamentals , with the toiling earth and the men who go with it . ’ |
| 25 | Company chairmen deplore this : they say they want ‘ wider share ownership ’ , to get ordinary people back into the stockmarket . |
| 26 | The sport itself and the money , shelter them from the kind of rough-and-ready exchange that brings ordinary people back from the brink of conflict and leads them to see their adversaries as people . |
| 27 | PORTAFERRY is featured in the first of the six-part series Once Upon A Place ( UTV , 7.00pm ) in which local people tell the story of their own area . |
| 28 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 29 | Nance Rashleigh ripped out entrails and flung the gutted fish accurately into a barrel four feet away . |
| 30 | Sheepdogs are also particularly alert to stray sheep and can easily be taught to drive stray sheep back to the shepherd . |