Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of coins available was sufficient for even the smallest transactions , and we can glimpse from reading a Latin novel such as The Golden Ass of Apuleius or from the many papyri which have survived from Egypt that these societies used coinage very much as we do . |
| 2 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 3 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 4 | Retirement migration is an important component , but except for a few areas its contribution to population growth has been smaller than that of other age groups , not just pre-retirement moves but also those of younger working age and their families ( Warnes and Law , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | But the vista that opened before them was so fantastic that for a few moments she almost forgot to be afraid . |
| 6 | He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps . |
| 7 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 8 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 9 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 10 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 11 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
| 12 | It is emphasized still further when we see that of the latter group none has external lockboard battens . |
| 13 | The evening was enjoyed by all , with Sony requesting a return match , confident that with a few changes they can win the cup back . |
| 14 | A caricaturist look at a face and extracts the significant features so that with a few lines he creates a likeness . |
| 15 | He knew that kidnap and torture were a blatant violation of the Chilean military code and that under the same code he was entitled to register any reservations with a superior officer . |
| 16 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 17 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 18 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 19 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 20 | The latter dyads are also more compatible than female — female pairs , although in the latter case there is little fighting in the convening sequence . |
| 21 | Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers . |
| 22 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 23 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 24 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 25 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 26 | A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen . |
| 27 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 28 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 29 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 30 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |