Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned and looked back and saw that where the eagles were , especially the central cages where the golden eagles lived , there was chaos . |
| 2 | His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months . |
| 3 | The two men rode down the narrow alleyways where the great four-storey houses were interspaced with the ramshackle cottages and lean-tos of the workmen and artisans . |
| 4 | The instances where one can most easily make oneself aware of the distinction are perhaps the ambiguous phrases where the same adjective in construction with the same noun can be understood in either way with a consequent effect on the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 5 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 6 | Only a few hours earlier an unexpected Meeting Notice had been issued , the agenda being simply ‘ To consider the conduct of Major H. R. Maxim ’ . |
| 7 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 8 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 9 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 10 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 11 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 12 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 13 | Only a few weeks ago the Swanage Railway was in some difficulty providing steam locomotives with sufficient power . |
| 14 | Only a few months earlier the USDOE had decided that the prospect of nuclear fusion by the ‘ conventional ’ route was still too many years away to meet the Pentagon 's urgent needs for tritium . |
| 15 | In an attempt to show the House at work , many types of business have been covered , not just the big occasions when the House is full . |
| 16 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 17 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 18 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 19 | Why , just a few generations ago the grandparents of this trumped-up charlatan blossomed and grew in orchards that attracted humans and animals alike with the sweet scent of fruit as it hung from the boughs . |
| 20 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
| 21 | In a short time you 'll receive your new multipoint cashcard , and just a few days later a Great Escapes brochure displaying over 180 excellent hotels to choose from , together with your two FREE Great Escapes vouchers . |
| 22 | Today she said : ‘ Naturally job losses tend to be highlighted but just a few weeks ago a new business opened creating 80 jobs . |
| 23 | And just a few weeks ago the man he found , Deputy Prime Minister Leszek Balcerowicz electrified the finance ministers of the developed world with a seven-page plan to ‘ transform the Polish economy into a market economy ’ . |
| 24 | Despite the high profile launch , just a few months later the audience of Eldorado was only 2.4 million people , ‘ fewer than Gardeners World , ’ as the Daily Express pointed out . |
| 25 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 26 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 27 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 28 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 29 | For example , if a breach were to affect the profitability of the Business , it would be unfair to compensate the Purchaser by simply paying back the lost profits when the Purchaser has paid a price calculated by reference to a multiple of profits . |
| 30 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |