Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 3 | Basically , Mr Porceddu intends to jail every troublemaker in sight — a minimum of two days for offensive drunkenness , automatic detention until at least the first round is over for anything more serious . |
| 4 | It had to be first light because by 8.00am the sun was too bright and hot to bear . |
| 5 | It had to be first light because by 8.00am the sun was too bright and hot to bear . |
| 6 | Thus Everton , a modest sized village since at least the time of Domesday Book , lost its separate identity during the middle decades of the nineteenth century and became a working-class quarter of Liverpool . |
| 7 | CDS is committed to supporting that hardware until at least the year 2000 — it still builds and sells them — though there will be no further additions to the series . |
| 8 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 9 | They lay in a glass case in his dressing-room , displayed , like Turtons ' file , on a cushion of faded red velvet with the shadow of a pistol in darker red where until recently the Colt had been . |
| 10 | In the early years of British rule the government paid far more attention to the judicial system than to either the police duties of headmen or the establishment of a regular police force . |