Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Republic of Indonesia comprises mainly some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ; since 1976 it has also included East Timor ( when the latter was effectively annexed as the 27th Indonesian province after the withdrawal in 1975 of Portuguese troops , although this act has never been officially recognized by the UN ) . |
| 2 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 3 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days . |
| 5 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 6 | CROSSRAGUEL Abbey , near Maybole , was founded as a Cluniac monastery in 1244 by Duncan , Earl of Carrick and much rebuilt during the next three centuries . |
| 7 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 8 | Delegates to the signing conference in Lucerne warned that funding for environmental projects would be extremely constrained for the next five to 10 years . |
| 9 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 10 | If , then , all the evangelists agree that Jesus is the unique bearer of the Spirit , in whose power he ushers in the Messianic Age , they are no less agreed on a second vital point . |
| 11 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 12 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 13 | Her body was already responding , although her mind was still stubbornly clinging to the last few threads of resistance . |
| 14 | The patient recovered but needed further glucose infusions for recurring hypoglycaemia and remained somewhat confused for the next 48 h . |
| 15 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 16 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |
| 17 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 18 | Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs . |
| 19 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |
| 20 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 21 | But it 's only happened in the last five years . |
| 22 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 23 | England triumphed 4–1 and Jack was only beaten in the last 90 seconds when the game was well won . |
| 24 | The road into Ribeira Brava has been much improved in the last few years . |
| 25 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |
| 26 | In 1293 he was committed to the Tower for a second time , perhaps for misconduct in the service of Queen Eleanor , and only released for a second fine of 1,000 marks . |
| 27 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 28 | They seem to have borne fruit , since he now owns three properties , four scooters and two buses there , all acquired within the last 15 years . |
| 29 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 30 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |