Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 3 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 5 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 6 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 8 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
| 9 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 10 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 11 | And while we 're on the subject of missing musical objects , SCORPIO RISING have suddenly found themselves minus a bass player and interested parties , willing to relocate to Liverpool , should contact Marc on 051–608 2084 . |
| 12 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 13 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 14 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 15 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 16 | She had none of the fears of the normal servant that her honesty might ever be in doubt and her absolute conviction of her own integrity had finally communicated itself to the old man and been conceded by him . |
| 17 | Theuderic , who was Clovis 's son by an earlier liaison , had already distinguished himself as a military leader : he could not be passed over . |
| 18 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 19 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 20 | It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes . |
| 21 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 22 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 23 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 24 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 25 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 26 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 27 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 28 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 29 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 30 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |