Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no Christian architecture before A.D. 200 ; believers gathered together to meet in each others ' homes and used the courtyard fountain for baptism . |
| 2 | By early 1832 the insurrection in Jamaica had so underlined in many abolitionists ' minds the presumption that slavery was the source of social disorder they unambiguously demanded ‘ nothing short of the total and immediate Abolition of British Colonial Slavery ’ . |
| 3 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 4 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 5 | In an arena now entirely stocked by affectless Goldsmiths ' artefacts , Strains of War is weird enough to require explanation . |
| 6 | er York apparently ask for two years ' experience in |
| 7 | Until then , talk of cash limited budgets will only add to general practitioners ' sense of being required to make too many changes too quickly . |
| 8 | The third image pictures the state in liberal democratic societies as a corporatist network , integrated with external elites into a single control system : here talk of external control versus state autonomy is irrelevant , for state and economic elites are so interpenetrated by each others ' concerns that no sensible boundary line or balance of influence can be drawn . |
| 9 | The evidence against Sukarno was flimsy and when he was eventually sentenced to four years ' imprisonment in December 1930 one eminent Dutch professor , J.M.J. Schepper , condemned the verdict as violating the great Dutch legal tradition . |
| 10 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 11 | They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations . |
| 12 | The last two titles at least offer a fresh theme that is not matched in other publishers ' series . |
| 13 | " We can not speak of 'Ukrainian Decembrists ' , but … only of Decembrists in the Ukraine " . |
| 14 | The word ‘ bound ’ begs a number of questions , and does not appear in other writers ' views . |
| 15 | There is , of course , nothing in this paragraph which might not appear in many schools ' booklets . |
| 16 | I shall be better able to reply to the speech of the hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) when the usual conventions no longer apply in three weeks ' time . |
| 17 | The most likely candidates are local firm MSP Sp zoo , and DHI , which is majority owned by Munich-based Computer 2000 GmBH — although this was not confirmed by American Technologies ' executive vice-president Alex Barkaloff . |
| 18 | Even when mortgage debt is added to all other consumer debt , to give a total of £50,000 to £55,000 million outstanding in 1978 , this was comfortably topped by private individuals ' deposits with banks and building societies alone , which amounted then to some £60,000 million . |
| 19 | Dr. Corrigan suggests that ‘ by the time the World Health Organisation have listed and checked all the herbs which could be used , doctors may find themselves prescribing herbs which were once dismissed as old wives ' tales ’ . |
| 20 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 21 | Management training for ryokan operators and staff is more and more geared for western guests ' needs and comprehension . |
| 22 | The Alliance was indissolubly linked to local ratepayers ' organisations — most notably the Forest Gate Ratepayers ' Association ( FGRA ) — which functioned as an effective lobby for those who felt most threatened by rate increases , namely , the manufacturers and petit bourgeoisie . |
| 23 | Possibly it was secondhand , but it still looked like five bucks ' worth of book , I reckoned . |
| 24 | ACTOR Ryan O'Neal 's tearaway son was yesterday put on five years ' probation for shooting up his ex-girlfriend 's car . |
| 25 | Thus the freedom to act in a given way , e.g. to protest , attracts an obligation in doing so not to disproportionately interfere with other persons ' freedoms or with society 's interests . |
| 26 | Pyrenees may also refer to small ewes ' milk cheeses that are produced in the same area . |
| 27 | Neil Ormerod , 19 , from Bromsgrove , was also sentenced to nine months ' detention . |
| 28 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 29 | The AFRC also reduced to 10 years ' imprisonment the life sentences of three others . |
| 30 | Wei Jingsheng was arrested on 29 March and later sentenced to fifteen years ' hard labour . |