Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the Naval survey parties may also have landed briefly on Krakatoa , because a hot spring is marked on some maps , but apart from this we know remarkably little about the islands or their volcanic history . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the remaining disorganisation , lack of solidarity , individualism , parochial narrow-mindedness and the defects of capitalist society are apparent in the form of the failure to understand general proletarian tasks , which are expressed most forcibly in the tasks and demands of the Soviet dictatorship , the workers ' state . |
| 3 | Only , I wish the characters would talk a little less like the heros and heroines of police reports . |
| 4 | SUPERCHUNK — On The Mouth ( City Slang ) : Superchunk check in somewhere between the Pixies and the Buzzcocks with a bit of grunge topping . |
| 5 | I think now of the way the shaggy but emaciated-looking , dull-eyed sheep who wander so wearily about the paths and tracks of the Forest of Dean find their way into the brick bus shelters on nights such as this . |
| 6 | Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment . |
| 7 | ‘ Into Western , ’ I said so thankfully to the men when they came . |
| 8 | The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them . |
| 9 | ‘ Everyone 's so down in the dumps and poor . |
| 10 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 11 | So much for the experts and their fuckin' theories , the driver thought bitterly . |
| 12 | So much for the nuts and bolts of shooting video but what makes a movie work on screen ? |
| 13 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 14 | That by putting it in the middle of the other side , he clipped the pallet again the opposite side and that also went down in between the racks and dropped on the pallet below it . |
| 15 | ‘ I find I can blend in better with the locals if I understand their language . |
| 16 | It happens perhaps sooner in the languages and in science than it does , say , in History or English or geography , and certainly language teachers find much more difficulty in teaching mixed ability classes . |
| 17 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 18 | There has got to be some genuine changes in our erm willingness to work hard at our family life and not to give in easily at the challenges that so often break our homes up . |
| 19 | He played only once for the Millers and was understudy to former Middlesbrough keeper Kelham O'Hanlon and current keeper Billy Mercer . |
| 20 | of total local authority revenue and people on higher incomes will contribute to local authority expenditure much more through the taxes that they pay . |
| 21 | They were much more like the nuns than were my fellow-countrywomen and co-religionists . |
| 22 | ‘ I have spent time in Greece and Malta during those countries ’ General Elections and found the electorate involved themselves much more in the campaigns and really enjoyed the experience , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 24 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 25 | The Bishop ordained that the Vicar of Hailing should receive as his portion £5 10s yearly and that he should have the same acreage of land as the vicars of old possessed and also " all oblations what so ever within the bounds and limits of the parish , all the tithes of hay , lambs , wool , mills , calves , chicken , pigs , geese , ducks , eggs , bees ' honey , wax , cheese , milk , milk-meats , flax , hemp , pears , apples , garden herbs , pigeon houses , and merchandise , fisheries , pastures , onions , garlic and saffron , also the tithes , sheaves cultivated either by plough or spade and also the tithes of wood for fuel , coppice wood , thorns , rushes , faggots and fardells , within the bounds of the Parish , all of which the vicars and his successors shall have " |
| 26 | I sit on the side of the bed and decide maybe Rachel is right : I 'd be better off between the sheets than listening to this dross . |
| 27 | Butler 's examination of this policy from 1952 to the 1970s shows that the differences between the average list size of the four different areas have declined , but only slightly over the years and with a number of upward and downward fluctuations . |
| 28 | The noises of the place went on around him , muffled only slightly by the mists and vapours ; he could hear shouted instructions and curses , the clanking of ladles and giant spatulas , the hiss and splutter of frying , the sloshing of water and soups , the grating of giant pans being moved , the machine-gun chatter of chopping knives . |
| 29 | So up to the woods and there in the woods he heard the sound of an axe . |
| 30 | By jeep and lorry we moved swiftly up through the towns and cities of middle Europe . |