Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Stripped of all the trimmings , the plot depends finally on one " trick " , causing the reader to assume that an ignorant servant could not possibly be the writer of the elaborate legal phraseology of the threatening notes , whereas in fact the fellow has copied the phrases from the legal paraphernalia all about the house .
32 Meteor Crater in Arizona was excavated 10 4 yr ago by an iron object with a kinetic energy of 15Mton .
33 From April 3–12 , the Tidy Britain Group are inviting people all over the country to take part in the National Spring Clean 1992 .
34 Until the eighteenth century it was common to house two , three or more corps together in the barn , but a later development was the use of half the barn for threshed straw , filling only one side of the threshing floor with unthreshed corn , and the emergence of this practice may have accompanied the increased use of ricks for housing crops or faster threshing by machinery .
35 But it ca n't be denied that in the days following the concert — which was seen by one-and-a-half billion people all over the world groups watched their LPs , new and old , surge healthily up the charts , taking their bank balances to new heights .
36 Each craftsman was commissioned to produce one or more works especially for the exhibition , hence the tight schedule .
37 The intestinal wall was transected 3 cm distally to the pylorus and ligated to a glass cannula for collection of the perfusate .
38 when someone says to you er thirty five pence please for a newspaper , you might not have the common sense to realize
39 Half one until three forty five sequence dancing on at St John 's Church Hall on Greylands Road at Bilborough the cost is seventy five pence there including a cup of tea and bickies too .
40 He appeared to be inviting various people forward for an introduction .
41 Eddie baited the swim with mashed bread and legered bread flake on a size 14 hook with 2 lb hook length and 3 lb main line to make the capture and added a small chub later in the session .
42 On Pippin 's side there was also a crucial non-participant : Bernard " though he was only about 8 km away from the battlefield , gave no help to either side " .
43 After completing the first circle of fabric tufts repeat with a second row about 1 cm away towards the centre .
44 Any data still in the file buffer is written to the file before the file is closed .
45 Erm , some of you are very critical of , of , of the Penguin operation when you were in the U S A but I have to tell you , they did achieve record sales there last year and increased market share and in fact the children 's er , book publishing was twenty percent ahead of the year before .
46 The key lies in the principles used to train élite military corps all over the world .
47 It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head .
48 The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " .
49 It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business .
50 The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) .
51 Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’
52 The rufous ovenbird , a South American species rather like a thrush in shape and size , builds on a very large scale indeed .
53 Store any works away from the studio in a dry , dust and moisture free environment .
54 Watch the fish carefully for the next few hours — especially if there are other fish already in the tank .
55 I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading .
56 This denial is so certain that other people close to the sufferer may even come to doubt their own certainty that there really are problems or they may even come to doubt their own sanity .
57 When family members , or other people close to the sufferer attempt to give feedback it may be resented and resisted by the reactivated denial system and lead to the opposite of the desired effect .
58 The Symposium considered how the Church can communicate more effectively to young people today for the benefit of their safety and emotional health .
59 The recession is hitting young people hardest in the North-East with unemployment among under 25s growing faster than across the working population as a whole , said Steve Pickering , regional secretary of the General , Municipal and Boilermakers Union .
60 I emphaasise that those figures are all random , and they show that hundreds of young people all over the country are denied a job or a YT place .
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