Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only nothing happened the next day and Chesarynth knew she was right not to trust herself because she could n't tell waking from dreams of an endless corridor with people whispering about her behind locked doors . |
| 2 | The majority ( eight out of 14 ) were republican , only one respected the Royal Family , the rest said the Windsors should get their act together . |
| 3 | Only one had a postal vote . |
| 4 | Among the randomised trials of exercise based rehabilitation after myocardial infarction performed in the 1970s and 80s only one reported a significant reduction in cardiac mortality , but some of these trials offered only short term follow up while others were small and vulnerable to type II statistical error . |
| 5 | And obviously everybody has a different experience of this . |
| 6 | so everybody plays a specific role . |
| 7 | " It may seem hypocritical when you 're giving up your leave , but not everyone becomes a chartered accountant quite so rapidly . |
| 8 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 9 | ‘ Not everyone had the same pudding , ’ said the inspector with a certain tenacity . |
| 10 | By now most people do know about the Book People , the Bread and Cheese People , the Plant , Stamp and Baking People , and the Carrying People even , but not everyone knows the full history of the Cave People as they have come to be called . |
| 11 | Not everyone has a natural knack for choosing colours and patterns . |
| 12 | Not everyone has the same tastes , remember — some people do n't like reading long text messages like those in Nythyhel , but perhaps it 's time for another game with a strong storyline . |
| 13 | Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from . |
| 14 | One , as it were , to pick out addresses , one to pick out socio-economic groups , one to pick out motor cars , one to pick out number of bedrooms , one to pick out whatever , and trivially or , or superficially everyone says the same thing , a database , it 's on the database , now |
| 15 | However , not one to miss a new experience , she agreed to come . |
| 16 | Moreover , he was not one to turn an able man down because he was an ideological waif — but that is another story . |
| 17 | The All Blacks have solid , experienced backs , but all New Zealand acknowledges that not one has the sheer pace of the Lions ' wings or Guscott . |
| 18 | I am not one to accuse the hon. Gentleman of misrepresenting the position ; I know and like him too much for that . |
| 19 | And it is not surprising when one considers that normally one detects a first edition simply by looking on the title verso for information . |
| 20 | Not everybody has a creative outlet to say what they want in life . ’ |
| 21 | After all , we may be learning as we go along but it is n't long before we discover that not everybody has a sylph-like waist or arms that with a little stretch will trail along the floor ! |
| 22 | Institutional rearing and other adverse childhood experience is liable to produce a feeling that one is in the hands of fate , thus anything to increase the young person 's social problem-solving skills and their belief in their own ability to control what happens to them might be helpful . |
| 23 | Are you , it is difficult to cross at Lord 's , er , I mean it is as you say , it 's quite a trek from the er , from whichever dressing room you 're in , down the steps , through the Long Room , there 's always someone coming the wrong direction then . |
| 24 | The chromosomal organization of the genes encoding human CD2 , LFA-3 and BCM1 is consistent with each gene having evolved by duplication from a common precursor , possibly one encoding a two-domain molecule involved in homophilic adhesion . |
| 25 | Making such changes once one has a Royal Charter remain possible but are an extremely slow process . |
| 26 | Hardly anybody read the endless folders which the task forces produced . |
| 27 | But when it 's a valued ally of the West who resorts to high-tech barbarism against defenceless people , hardly anybody pays a blind bit of attention . |
| 28 | In the three little countries in Southern Africa , Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland , nearly everyone speaks the same mother tongue . |
| 29 | Although nearly everyone experiences an occasional craving , some people have them intensely and often . |
| 30 | All I knew were prostitutes or pimps , and just about everyone had a criminal record . |