Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the motives for deferring to public opinion pressures are at their strongest only in the run-up to an election , when most incumbent political leaderships anyway try to manipulate government budgets and taxation so that economic and social conditions are favourable for their cause . |
| 2 | We find jobs for people up to their 70s right across the board , from top executives to cleaners , dinner ladies , gardeners and decorators . |
| 3 | Managers , who live in a constant state of anxiety , tend not to see games as others do and Joe Jordan duly declared himself happy enough with the result which , apart from extending Hearts ' unbeaten run against their city rivals to 17 , keeps them in contention for a place in Europe . |
| 4 | Almost any photograph can reveal something about its own time if read properly — even the boring cartes-de-visite portraits produced in their millions all over the world , offer evidence of contemporary fashions and attitudes . |
| 5 | You do n't get the Egyptian women on their own either on the Prince 's boat or off it . |
| 6 | They ‘ memorise ’ the information she supplies , process it somehow , and then , compensating for crosswinds and the movement of the Sun , fly out on their own directly to the flower patch . |
| 7 | At Brimpsfield , a very unusual church sits on its own away to the east of the present village . |
| 8 | That first modest trickle would soon become a flood and Guinness , fuelled by its reputation and success in Ireland , would eventually need ships of its own solely for the purpose of handling Guinness exports . |
| 9 | The period began quietly enough but the re-opening of the Deep Mine and those at Paddy End and elsewhere , and the erection of mills for the dressing of the ore , coupled with the gradual introduction of ever improved machinery , led to a little Industrial Revolution all of its own there in the Mines Valley . |
| 10 | And then the tendrils of her inner fire licked outwards , and the buffeting of the waters around her merged dizzily with the touch of his hands as he drew her closer . |
| 11 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
| 12 | May I thank you all once more for an excellent publication and wish you all well for the future . |
| 13 | We can not thank you all enough for the kind letters of support and assistance . |
| 14 | This lack of consensus on the way semantically and grammatically related sentences should be characterized is itself troublesome enough to a sociolinguist seeking guidance from syntactic theory ; but to make things even more difficult , the very notion of semantic equivalence is a disputed one . |
| 15 | There is also the proviso that the theory of proton-antiproton collisions with which the experimental results were compared is itself uncertain numerically by a factor of two or three . |
| 16 | If the 1959 Act had proved itself suitable only for the control of sexual depictions or descriptions where the question was one of manners rather than morals , then the recommendation of the Commission might have been acceptable , since sex between consenting adults in private was no longer a matter for the British criminal law . |
| 17 | ‘ Say , were you round here during the lunch-break ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When were you last here in the church , Father ? |
| 19 | Are you secure enough as a parent , comfortable enough with your authority to use it empathetically — firmly when the occasion calls for it , lightly when it is appropriate to be tolerant ? |
| 20 | For the Falcons the main aim of this free falling detachment is to blood the 4 new jumpers on the team , basically to make them good enough for the start of the display season in the Spring and there 's no room for lack of concentration . |
| 21 | ‘ And me all alone in the house since my son went to England . |
| 22 | John had not expected such an overwhelming response , and as not even the Ballroom itself could contain such large numbers , he took them all outside into the street to make his selection . |
| 23 | I think there 's another jacket that he 's got and there 's no room to keep them all downstairs on the hook hanging in the passage |
| 24 | Woodacon has sponsored the team for the last four years and would like to take this opportunity to wish them all well for the future . |
| 25 | We can not afford to get them all here for a costume call . ’ |
| 26 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 27 | Anyway , one morning the Commandant called them all together on the parade ground . |
| 28 | Plants will survive quite happily if you group them all together in the bath , soak them well , and leave about an inch of water in the bottom of the bath . |
| 29 | I in number one we did want to replace the word by erm reassures them because we that just for the strength of this . |
| 30 | While they glared at each other he recalled that Carrie had said something similar earlier in the day . |