Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 2 | If nothing else , the Christmas editions of NME , Sounds , and Melody Maker are a barometer of hip opinion , although not so revealing as the readers ' polls which follow a couple of months later . |
| 3 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 4 | Now , she lay panting by the fire , warming her flanks and apparently listening to the humans ' conversation . |
| 5 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 6 | The big machines are only powered by the ratepayers ' money , and that woman who threatened to tie herself to a willow tree represents thousands upon thousands of ratepayers who share her ( and Constable 's ) convictions about the essential nature of a river . |
| 7 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 8 | Others in their early 20s will obviously feature in the selectors ' deliberations for the full tour of Australia , starting in November , that marks the beginning of a new era for West Indies more appropriately than the proliferation of one-day tournaments to which Richie Richardson 's reshaped team has been almost exclusively confined . |
| 9 | Adopting techniques long employed by the solicitors ' profession , the brochure sets out personal accounts of government legal work by serving lawyers . |
| 10 | As Lawler shone the torch outside Maggie listened to the protesting groan of timbers and prayed the hotel was n't going to suddenly collapse as the McPhersons ' house had done . |
| 11 | It can also be argued on behalf of management that transfer notices should not be mandatory if cessation of the executive 's employment with the company results from wrongful dismissal , redundancy , retirement at normal age , retirement due to ill-health or disability or death ; or if a majority of the non-executive directors and/or the directors so resolve with the investors ' approval . |
| 12 | A general war weariness , grievances over high taxation , and a deep fear amongst the Anglican majority of the population that the Church was now in greater danger from Protestant Nonconformists than it was from popery , all worked to the Tories ' advantage . |
| 13 | If so , ‘ Be aware ’ is no securer than any other proposed foundation of morals ; better settle for the Assassins ' ‘ Nothing is true , everything is permitted ’ . |
| 14 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 15 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
| 16 | They are often sited in very desirable locations : mental hospitals , in particular , such as the former county asylums which sprung up after the Lunacy Act of 1847 , are located on the outskirts of towns , in landscaped grounds thoughtfully planned for the patients ' well-being . |
| 17 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
| 18 | He similarly assumes that exile players are only qualified for the clubs ' ostensible countries of origin . |
| 19 | The parties of the centre-right coalition suffered substantial losses in nationwide local elections on Oct. 18 in what was widely seen as the voters ' initial verdict on the austerity measures . |
| 20 | On May 3 the remains of Enver Hoxha and 12 other " former leaders of the Party of Labour " ( the PLA — the former ruling party , later renamed the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ) were discreetly transferred from the Martyrs ' Cemetery in Tirana to a public cemetery in the suburbs of the city . |
| 21 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 22 | What is common to these and related responses is that if we take the starting of the wipers to be an effect we believe at least that there is some type of circumstance which is uniformly connected with the wipers ' starting . |
| 23 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 24 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |
| 25 | Vacancies were normally filled by the commissioners ' presentation by the end of the century , but that presentation could be a formality and their autonomy restricted to the rejection of manifestly unqualified candidates . |
| 26 | The presence of mains services and their location will generally arise from the solicitors ' enquiries and searches , but their significance on layout can be underestimated . |
| 27 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 28 | Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums . |
| 29 | Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit . |
| 30 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |