Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But if Posidonius had paid attention to the structure of Italy before or after the Social War we should know it from Strabo who used his work extensively . |
| 2 | However , the enforcement agent in a compliance system regards prosecution as a sign of failure , where in a sanctioning system it becomes visible evidence that he has done his job . |
| 3 | Completely all-over patterning would certainly not be practical if you are making garments for sale as it is fairly time consuming , but ‘ at random ’ or in a close group they are splendidly spectacular and make a wonderful splash of colour and pattern . |
| 4 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 5 | She thought it would be best then if John found some sudden reason for going to France — or to a small line they were doing in Belgium . |
| 6 | It was often a lower middle-class phenomenon , and was always fiercest in central and eastern Europe where the great mass of the population had little commitment to capitalist society or to the liberal values it generated . |
| 7 | traditional grammatical structures … are not appropriate to Mayan structures : they can be applied only with violence to their common usage or to the structural features they are intended to fit … |
| 8 | Downwind or on a broad reach they are magnificent craft , but upwind sailing is definitely not their strong suit . |
| 9 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 10 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 11 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 12 | Nor did the Nonconformity which had survived the later Stuart period serve much as a form of social control , except for the small numbers it served . |
| 13 | We 're the younger members , except for the real littl'uns we 've got now . ’ |
| 14 | No love , except for the clinging love he feared . |
| 15 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |
| 16 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 17 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 18 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 19 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 20 | But the vista that opened before them was so fantastic that for a few moments she almost forgot to be afraid . |
| 21 | He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps . |
| 22 | Comparison of the second equation of the pair ( 10.8 ) with the second equation of the pair ( 10.12 ) immediately reveals that for a given network Also , elimination of between equations ( 10.12 ) and comparison of the resulting equation with the first equation of the pair ( 10.8 ) establishes that for a given network It is a matter of simple algebraic manipulation to show that the inverse relations to equations ( 10.13 ) and ( 10.14 ) are ; ; |
| 23 | had a yard there and an old building , that 's where he had , that 's where he operated from and he used to get all this second hand timber demolition timber from Liverpool and Berkenhead and all that and he reckoned then that for every hundred pound he spent on demolition he had a thousand pound back |
| 24 | Erm and I feel that for no good reason I was forced to go through a major surgery . |
| 25 | Many companies give an indication of how easy ( or difficult ! ) each plant is to raise so I 'd suggest that for the first year you stick with fairly easy ones , perhaps trying a couple of ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 26 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 27 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 28 | The intactness of the tomb meant that for the first time it was possible to analyse fully how the many objects found within it were used , and their ritual and social implications within the Sicàn culture better understood . |
| 29 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 30 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |