Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly American Intelligence was unable to confirm the worst of the fears . |
| 2 | These arguments then lead us to support the third of the options for change set out in the 1992 Green Paper . |
| 3 | The only basic concession we made to the Chancellor was to exclude the self-employed on the grounds that they were not covered by SERPS in any event . |
| 4 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |
| 5 | No need to accept every one of the invitations which kept on being delivered because of Amabel 's fear of giving offence . |
| 6 | Feeling depressed one day he decided to explore a few of the corridors in Nightside and plant his packet of seeds to remind him of home . |
| 7 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 8 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 9 | Somebody who wo n't hesitate to shoot a few of the troublemakers as a warning to the rest . |
| 10 | ‘ We have to cross the first of the cordilleras according to the map you showed me . ’ |
| 11 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 12 | It was a hard , fast drive through the congested streets , the girl picking her way expertly through the back streets to avoid the worst of the jams . |
| 13 | This Board , whose role is by no means a formality , as it has to vet every one of the artists shown at the exhibition , is now made up of people who reflect the old groupings : seven Christian Democrats , six Socialists , two PDS ( formerly Communist ) , one Liberal and one Social Democrat . |
| 14 | I 've got to look a one of the notes here hang on . |
| 15 | Although he was only to win a third of the tickets that Rudi had won , this dog was used extensively by successful breeders , which is the true test of a great dog . |
| 16 | The recent collapse of the Communist Party , which used to win a third of the votes , has taken away the vital ingredient of fear that held the system together . |
| 17 | Soon she would have to use the last of the rushes . |
| 18 | This was against all that was implicit in the way I had been taught — people increased in wisdom as they grew older , so that they were able to guide the young in the paths they should follow . |
| 19 | And the writer has to keep conjuring the feeling in him or herself , to keep it there , if he/she is to hope to do the same for the readers . |
| 20 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 21 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 22 | The physical properties of objects revealed in the natural sciences may well have an important bearing upon discussions of the technological constraints on manufacture and utility , but these studies do not differentiate , as a prime dichotomy , between the artefact and the natural substance , and indeed are largely concerned to reduce the former to the properties of the latter . |
| 23 | In order to appreciate this strong feminist stance that is being taken it is necessary to understand a few of the problems of women in the Developing World . |
| 24 | The aircraft was so silent , the atmosphere so eerie that as the medical team jumped from the ambulance they all began to fear the worst for the passengers inside — that they might not have survived the shock and impact of the crash landing . |
| 25 | Barkley suggests that children have the opportunity to save a third of the tokens each day to go towards the special rewards on the ‘ menu ’ . |
| 26 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 27 | A proviso stipulated though , that should the working produce a profit ( nett ) of £10,000 a year , then be could at the beginning of any of the sub-terms enter as a partner and receive one-third of the nett profit instead of the aforesaid one-quarter ; and to pay a third of the expenses . |
| 28 | She was about to ask the nearest of the women when she suddenly realised fully what had happened . |
| 29 | The trials of Bulgaria 's former dictator or a handful of Ceausescu 's secret police serve to scapegoat a few of the ringleaders and put the issue to rest . |
| 30 | Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ? |