Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun prp] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a little odd considering The Smiths ' make up was , up to this point , completely based on experience of failure . |
| 2 | Easterners are especially dissatisfied with the EC 's claim that it is doing the best it can for them . |
| 3 | WHY is everyone so upset about the BBC 's Eldorado ? |
| 4 | ‘ It is obviously crucial to the UK 's economic recovery that smaller companies should have access to development capital . ’ |
| 5 | This ( as yet unresolved ) dilemma is not only crucial to the FMI 's future . |
| 6 | Another ticket perhaps unique to the Bishop 's Castle Railway may have been the Golf returns from Craven Arms to Plowden issued in First Class at 1/6d , Second Class 1/- and Third Class 9d . |
| 7 | His scores may not sound impressive but Clarke was obviously impressed by the Sheffielder 's effort against John Wisden , Hillyer and himself and asked him to join the ranks . |
| 8 | The Chelsea Groupies have become so well-known in the King 's Road area that a new scheme , Shopwatch , has been introduced to combat them . |
| 9 | Environment and development groups warned that the summit was likely to be a failure , largely due to the North 's refusal to commit itself to firm accords . |
| 10 | Differences in selling price are largely due to the FRG 's selling a smaller proportion of large systems than the others , and the Japanese figure is distorted because one company is a high outlier in this sense . |
| 11 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 12 | Not privy to the Princesse 's thoughts , Katherine smiled . |
| 13 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 14 | ‘ Not surprisingly , the committee was not impressed with the DoH 's response to local authorities ’ concerns ’ , Harris said . |
| 15 | The manufacturers were generally happy with the BEA 's conservatism , which suited their export concentration on low technology markets , and gave them a relatively easy and highly profitable life ( though as the 1950s advanced more of them were to become worried that they were missing out on new technical developments as their world market share slipped ) . |
| 16 | TREVOR Deaves has been commendably open about the DSS 's kind offer to pay his £1,833 a week mortgage . |
| 17 | For readers more interested in the Gemaldegalerie 's building ( 1856 , by Gottfried Semper ) and in the history of the collection , there is in a separate volume Gemäldegalerie Dresden : Die Sammlung , Das Gebäude by Heinrich Magirius ( architecture ) and Harald Marx ( the collection ) . |
| 18 | France 's Regional Parks are more akin to the UK 's National Parks ( both are classed by IUCN as Protected Landscape Areas ) . |
| 19 | Christopher Bullock , director of public affairs for the Tobacco Advisory Council : ‘ The 13p increase on a packet of cigarettes is totally unfair to the UK 's 17m smokers . |
| 20 | Policy makers in Washington and London were sometimes privately more sceptical about the Shah 's intentions , the viability of his economic policies , the growing corruption of his court , his apparently insatiable appetite for arms and even his personality . |
| 21 | The row grew into one of the most embarrassing in the BBC 's history after it was revealed that Mr Birt had been employed as a freelance to gain tax advantages in his £140,000-a-year job . |
| 22 | This was partly due to the West 's indifference to information gathering until recently , the lack of scientific and cultural exchanges until China became a member of the UN in 1971 , and extreme xenophobia on the part of the Chinese government engendered by the Cultural Revolution . |
| 23 | ‘ Where do you live ? ’ enquired Betty , contriving to look at once serious , since the subject had been death , and also interested in the Molesworths ' continuing existence . |
| 24 | The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’ |
| 25 | Buzzsaw the cat was probably high on the FBI 's Most Wanted Felines list . |
| 26 | Throughout 1990 the opposition JLP showed signs of serious internal dissension centred upon Seaga 's allegedly " autocratic " style of leadership , but also symptomatic of the JLP 's struggle to come to terms with its defeat in the 1989 general election and its poor performance in the March 1990 municipal elections . |
| 27 | They are also unhappy with the APB 's ideas for an extended audit report . |
| 28 | He was also critical of the ANC 's mass action campaign which he described as an obstacle to negotiations . |
| 29 | Other campaign groups are also critical of the NRA 's performance ; the Clean Rivers Campaign describes the NRA 's workforce as " sadly apathetic and demoralised " . |
| 30 | Notably absent from the CBI 's understanding of the problems of inner cities was any notion that they should be met by national economic policy . |