Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps more exciting , however , to leave one 's discoveries to chance ; thee can be great satisfaction in wandering round an old country church and suddenly stumbling across an 18th or 19th-century Persian rug that no one has recognized before . |
| 2 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 3 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 4 | Hodge : At 31 and not playing in the first team . |
| 5 | I would imagine what they 're doing is raising the roof and not putting in the second storey . |
| 6 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 7 | Leaving the museum and instantly stepping into the twentieth century again is a strange experience . |
| 8 | From these sources , it is possible quite quickly to gain an idea of how parkland has changed over the years — usually expanding in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , and then contracting during the twentieth . |
| 9 | Once such differences in the soil can be detected , the archaeological features are excavated , often by first removing what appears to be the latest ( uppermost ) layer , and then proceeding to the next layer , and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ E mast be LOADED — and then getting on the next coach to Leeds to get all me money just like John Lennon 's dad . ’ |
| 11 | Both cases can be covered by imposing the additional constraint and then turning to the second objective . |
| 12 | Heseltine aides feared most what , in the event , actually happened : that he would play the stalking horse role — forcing the resignation of Mrs Thatcher but ultimately losing to a third candidate . |
| 13 | While still working on the second volume of the Society 's guidebook , at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 16 June 1830 , he applied to undertake a series of drawings of the parrot collection . |
| 14 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |