Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [det] [noun] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 6 | It seems that every few decades in this country we have a major battle over divorce law reform . |
| 7 | 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 ! " |
| 8 | I spend part of the afternoon in the refreshment tent , enjoying a few reminiscences with some mates I have n't seen since Moses 's big match against Pharaoh 's magicians . |
| 9 | But some symbols acquire their additional semantic properties from some characteristic they have as actions or things . |
| 10 | After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In trying to provide some answers to these questions I shall demonstrate the ways in which anti-racist and anti-sexist policies frequently mirror each other in rhetoric and analysis . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To the old folks in this list I address the following : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The middle six hours of that day we passed in waiting . |
| 21 | Before , however , I examine in more detail my own personal views on this subject I would like to set them against the background of alternative approaches . |
| 22 | Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex . |
| 23 | After gathering again in Milton Keynes in the early hours of this morning they all decided to leave the field at the same time , but there were only two exits . |
| 24 | Six months after this promotion he again called me to his office to suggest , in his gentle diplomatic way , that while the CBC was happy with my work as Production Manager , it had been observed that I was still producing almost as many shows as before . |
| 25 | No we actually did n't work for about six years until this year we did a concert tour of Ireland just before we came over here . |
| 26 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 27 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 28 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 29 | When I was in London during the early years of this period I often stayed with my mother in Hampton Court . |
| 30 | If they are able to construct an approved programme of study over six terms from that date they are then eligible to enter Stage II in term 2 or 3 of their second year . |