Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 2 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 3 | Figure 6.3b shows yet another type of homoclinic orbit ; this one involves only the stationary points and C " . |
| 4 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 5 | ‘ People are playing with fire if they contemplate the Government will just be defeated on Wednesday and everything settles down the following day . |
| 6 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 7 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 8 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |
| 9 | Of course , trajectories started very near the origin , which first strike the return plane close to R or L , spiral at once into C+ ; this is how one determines experimentally the precise parameter value at which the strange set becomes attracting . |
| 10 | This has one tiresome consequence , that if one knows only the short title and calendar year , the statute may sometimes be in either of two volumes , and nothing but a process of trial and error can ascertain which . |
| 11 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 12 | Secondly , there is the question of odour , everyone knows how the familiar diesel smell can be a nuisance in towns and in closed spaces like tunnels or ferries . |
| 13 | I was at University at the time ( showing me age ) at Keele which is right by Stoke-on-Trent ( except no-one knows where the bloody Trent is ) . |