Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrong horse … and speaking of odds , word reaches us that super-confident Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb is so much the punters ' favourite that the town 's biggest bookie has stopped taking bets . |
| 2 | It was not just the Iraqis ' perfidy that did them down . |
| 3 | Each piece is not just the hunters ' story traditionally presenting the head or horns of the victim . |
| 4 | The overseers had exactly twice the labourers ' allowance , having both the upstairs unit and the one downstairs . |
| 5 | Rumours of a row between Graham and Merson are circulating , and that will only damage still further the Gunners ' cause after two shock defeats leaves them bottom of the new Premier League . |
| 6 | Some unions , most notably the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , were reluctant to invest the General Council with the power to call all unions out on sympathetic strike action and unemployment made it difficult for it to fight against wage reductions . |
| 7 | The regime became increasingly draconian in its attempts to deal with the problems it was confronting ; the society , in turn , began to establish public associations of all kinds , most notably the workers ' defence committee ( KSS-KOR ) , which were independent of party and state control . |
| 8 | I seem to have stirred up quite a hornets ' nest . |
| 9 | With only three minutes remaining Paul Mooney 's corner produced a powerful header from Paul Curran which thundered back off the Bohemians ' woodwork . |
| 10 | Its main concern is that Motif should evolve from what is now essentially a developers ' tool to become an end user product . |
| 11 | And so this certainly is n't just the police 's fault , this is a very big problem . |
| 12 | The ancient Globe Inn , the Wesleyan Ebenezer Chapel opposite , and some 18th century cottages form an attractive conservation area in Bell Street , Herston , formerly almost entirely a quarriers ' hamlet . |
| 13 | Do you know how long the boys ' ploughing matches went on for ? |
| 14 | The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent . |
| 15 | But then again the students ' bar is ridiculously cheap . |
| 16 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 17 | It was an amazing meeting , very much a men 's meeting . |