Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , the changes in ‘ Bantu education ’ have not fundamentally altered its status as education for inferiority and subservience . |
| 2 | However , he had slowly modified his lack of jealousy into trust . |
| 3 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
| 4 | But the strangeness of the tropics and the sophistication of the almost-forgotten culture from which she had sprung had greatly exaggerated her sense of release from the frustrations of the past . |
| 5 | Rachaela had expensively rescued her furniture from store . |
| 6 | The two main parties , the ruling Democratic Action and the Social Christian COPEI , have long used their access to oil money to lubricate an elaborate system of patronage . |
| 7 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 8 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 9 | " And now , I 'm afraid I 've somewhat lost my sense of direction . |
| 10 | He had apparently lost his fortune through business failures and was claiming legal aid in an action over his 1990 divorce from his second wife Sarah . |
| 11 | She also sought an order of certiorari to quash the decision of the Attorney-General of 3 July 1990 refusing to give his authority under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988 for an application that the High Court make an order that a fresh inquest be held and a declaration that the Attorney-General had wrongly withheld his authority under section 13 of the Act of 1988 . |
| 12 | Deanside 's sister haulage company , John G Russell , with a main operating centre at Gartcosh , has greatly improved its transport of coal operations with the benefit of Section 8 grant monies . |
| 13 | For those who are dumb , a sign language is useful and especially for mentally handicapped people who have speech difficulties , there are symbolic languages such as the Bliss Symbolic Communication System and the Makaton Vocabulary Language Programme which have greatly improved their capacity for communicating ( Kiernan et al , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | The brand new two-car Networker Class 456 Electric Multiple Unit recently on exhibition inside the Great Hall at York , has since relinquished its pride of place beside the Channel Tunnel section . |
| 15 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 16 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 17 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 18 | Her widowhood had thankfully not reduced her circumstances too drastically and had certainly not altered her sense of style . |
| 19 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 20 | A number of employers have already given their seal of approval to a range of SCOTVEC module groupings , and more recognitions are in the pipeline . |
| 21 | The existing centre at Northwick Park in north-west London , has not developed its research in collaboration with hospital work , as once hoped , and is to be phased out . |
| 22 | Similarly , having chosen to use a large Chorus , John Doyle has not developed their ritual of voice and movement far enough . |
| 23 | The company has just cancelled its contract with BASF for chrome tape and is opting for a cheaper brand of conventional ferric oxide tape . |
| 24 | But Welshman Davies and Oxford-based Saxton , both 25 , have not dropped their bid for compensation . |
| 25 | With the defeat at Brignais avenged , Charles V , who had just succeeded his father as king , could go to his coronation a satisfied man . |
| 26 | Now that Novell has finally made its move with respect to USL — see opposite — SCO could look doubly attractive . |
| 27 | A newspaper report of an inquest on a patient at the Biggleswade institution appeared to imply that the guardians had not done their duty in respect of the provision of adequate nursing staff . |
| 28 | In the next example the boys , with the pedal car , had already made their decision on size and did not really need the teacher to question them about it , but they were obviously quite used to talking with her . |
| 29 | I had already made my debut in Scrutiny , however , and he may have felt that this made it appropriate that I should have something equivalent in The Criterion . |
| 30 | Author Bernard Kops had already made his name in theatre with The Hamlet of Stepney Green , another work of social concern , and later declared that theatre would never again be a ‘ precious inner sanctum for the precious few ’ . |