Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 She did not doubt but that somewhere amongst the records and corporate memory of the Society would be someone who knew Hereward Marr very well indeed .
2 In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice .
3 Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit .
4 If you do not buy one of these make sure that you always leave some lights switched on inside the house — even if you are going out at eight o'clock in the morning and will not be back until midnight .
5 I said , no , and she said oh I have lots of times , I only live at Manchester , you see , and of course , you had to go by boat you see , and I caught the boat train from Ipswich at eight o'clock in the morning and I got to Manchester at lunchtime about one and then went on to Liverpool and the train there took us almost down to the docks .
6 In the case of specific requests please ring the appropriate number below between eight o'clock in the morning and six o'clock at night .
7 They get up at eight o'clock in the morning and say , Jo , I want my cereal .
8 It is the concerted teaching of the whole New Testament that the Christian experience of the Holy Spirit is possible only after the death and resurrection of Jesus .
9 These are marvellous opportunities to invite all sorts of people — friends , neighbours , relatives — to visit at any time between , say , eleven o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at night .
10 However , the we have recently had to incur extra expenditure because the road that were put in looking at one hundred er er were found to be too high especially for the services and er place er committee which er throughout that it was very difficult but apparatus you know moving fire .
11 Chris Smalley had earlier come upon ML 2 alongside in the Entrance and scrambled aboard with his squad , but in trying to get her forward guns firing he was killed before she was afire and had to be abandoned about 0245 hours .
12 People were largely interested only in the Wehrmacht and ‘ how things were out there ’ at the Front .
13 With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts .
14 I 'd be in a club till 2 o'clock in the morning and then come home , sit down and be bored until the morning started and then I 'd be walking round , taking the dog for a walk in the park .
15 I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life .
16 Everything had associations — Dorothy 's , Edward 's , given by so-and-so , bought on a particular holiday , left behind by relative or friend ; Helen saw an insistent kaleidoscope of references , shimmering tiresomely behind the garments and the implements , as ineradicable as the blackberry stains on a sleeve or the ingrained mud on everything .
17 The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights .
18 Sinks will need a minimum of two 100 watt incandescent bulbs or two 75 watt reflector floodlights which will focus light directly onto the bowls and draining boards .
19 Their displacement was not however immediately perceptible even to a writer like Disraeli , who was critically interested both in the architecture and in the social function of great houses .
20 This has been very harmful both to the industry and to the national interest .
21 In discussing pre-war crime , we must be faithful both to the continuities and also to the sometime surprising ‘ permissiveness ’ of the interwar years .
22 They said in a statement : ‘ That dispute was referred by our client to professional advisers acting on his behalf who negotiated a settlement with the builders which was acceptable both to the builders and to our client . ’
23 However , after several years of poor livestock production , a record 24,500,000 head were reported in 1989 ; the government attributed this partly to a contract and leasing system introduced in 1988 [ see also p. 36704 ] , by which rural workers contracted to supply specified products for wages , with their collective or the state farm supplying cattle , implements , machinery and land .
24 The dangers of leaving this solely to the market and enthusiast interests are obvious and potentially serious , to the extent that availability is most likely to guide research effort and energy .
25 Whatever is wrong now between the Americans and Europe and especially Britain , it must be mended .
26 Photos of SE.5s and Avro 504s in 1917 contrasting sharply with the Hurricanes and Spitfires of 1940 .
27 The public transport network should also be improved to encourage people to use this instead of a car and a park and ride system might be introduced to keep traffic out of the centre .
28 James besieged the Ulster city of Derry , but its 35,000 Protestant inhabitants successfully defended it , due largely to the leadership and example of the ‘ Apprentice Boys ’ .
29 The Prudential appealed , contending that there were two contracts and that stamp duty was payable only for the land and the works completed on 18 October 1989 .
30 We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn .
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