Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its immense size , it was severely underpowered : by the late 1940s , with BOAC refusing to use it and with no other customer , the project became an expensive white elephant and was ultimately scrapped by the succeeding Conservative government . |
| 2 | or whether you want to leave it until as an out patient . |
| 3 | How better to inculcate it than in the young ? " |
| 4 | By the time I started to react there was no time to do anything except at the instinctive level . |
| 5 | Yet for all her passionate dedication to public service she also knew how to enjoy herself and as an elderly lady was often seen at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo in the late 1920s , savouring to the full the social pleasures made possible by her unique commercial success . |
| 6 | You are allowed to keep them but in a centred box . |
| 7 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 8 | It was I who needed to see him because of the broken nights , the strain involved in loss of sleep . ’ |
| 9 | The State then operates as an educational function , as Gramsci suggests , in this case , to educate us as to the worthy and the unworthy , the deserving and the undeserving . |
| 10 | We 're about to lose our coal industry and er we 're about to lose it because of the incompetent blind dogma er of this present government . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 12 | She goes up to him and tells him to stuff himself and in a flat half-minute he 's belting the old lorry up the London road . |
| 13 | In most circumstances the polythene liner has little to recommend it except as a cheap temporary home for fish and plants while the main pool is being cleaned out . |