Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before looking at local economic strategies in more detail we should point out that the decline of consensus politics at the national level does not inevitably lead to an increase in local political activity . |
| 2 | For instance , Stravinsky 's Symphonies of Wind Instruments ends with nine bars based on the chord progressions E minor , D minor , and C major , but by adding foreign diatonic notes to each chord he forms small clusters which obscure the harmony and give it a mysterious fascination . |
| 3 | We enter 1993 positively , knowing that the technology and geographic opportunities for profitable expansion I have mentioned above enhance a focused and balanced business . |
| 4 | This is despite the fact that the Tribunal is appointed by the Government ; that it has no real powers ; and that it is under a duty not to give published reasons for any decision it makes . |
| 5 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 6 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 7 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 8 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 9 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 10 | After some centuries of independent statehood it became a part of the Ottoman Empire and then came under Russian influence from the early nineteenth century . |
| 11 | It seems that every few decades in this country we have a major battle over divorce law reform . |
| 12 | When we solve a problem by combining different elements of known action we sometimes get carried away . |
| 13 | The merchants of Awjla and Jalu contested this claim , but after some years of bloody conflict they were confined to the oases : if they wished to travel outside they , too , had to pay a fee to Zuwaya . |
| 14 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 15 | A few weeks after that incident we received a so-called hot tipoff that an illegal immigrant run was to be made the following night " somewhere between the Thames and Lowestoft ! " |
| 16 | But some symbols acquire their additional semantic properties from some characteristic they have as actions or things . |
| 17 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
| 18 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 19 | As one of the few insurgents with military experience he was a valuable recruit . |
| 20 | Under its skin , instead of succulent cuts of prime meat you 're much more likely to get all sorts of other things instead . |
| 21 | Why the hell do you think we come ? ’ — Blackpool woman representative queuing to enter the conference headquarters hotel in the small hours ‘ I 'm bound to say that when considering some examples of modern architecture I enthusiastically join those who say , ‘ God bless the Prince of Wales ’ . ' |
| 22 | Prices and values can not be higher than what people can pay — which means , how much people can borrow — and lenders , belatedly learning prudence , are no longer willing to give the high multiples of gross income they did in the 1980s or the high proportion of price . |
| 23 | In the concluding sections of this chapter we briefly consider in sociolinguistic terms : ( 1 ) phonemic overlap of /a/ and /Ε/; in EModE ; ( 2 ) the question of reversibility of merger , with reference to the meat/mate ‘ merger ’ ; ( 3 ) lexical diffusion patterns and the Neogrammarian problem of gradual versus sudden phonetic change . |
| 24 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 25 | In some chapters of this book we have indeed thought of the individual organism as an agent , striving to maximize its success in passing on all its genes . |
| 26 | We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 27 | To the old folks in this list I address the following : |
| 28 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |
| 29 | In some parts of Muslim society she would be in danger of her life . |
| 30 | Your outline ( see above , Chapter 1 , pp. 22 – 4 and Chapter 3 , pp. 59 – 61 ) will indicate what needs to go into each part of your essay , and enables you to write the different parts in any order you wish . |