Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Hence , a pound paid out is worth more than a pound retained and reinvested . |
2 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
3 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
4 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
5 | Dancing had never been like this . |
6 | It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations . |
7 | No off-worlder has ever been inside any of them , but we are told that there are caverns , vaults within vaults , like those ancient puzzles where ever opened box reveals another , smaller box . |
8 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
9 | The pattern has usually been for such people to establish themselves as privileged representatives of a ‘ god ’ who has the power to punish or destroy those who do not conform to the rules which they , the privileged , have themselves formulated , but have attributed to the ‘ god ’ . |
10 | Some 200 people in possession of pamphlets calling for a multiparty political system were reported to have been arrested in recent weeks around the country ; the human rights organization Amnesty International said that many people working in companies with facsimile transmission machines capable of receiving opposition literature printed abroad were among those detained . |
11 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
12 | Cos I , I tell you , I used to go to Hunsdon fetch this milk of a morning and coming back , I 'd empty the one can and I had a cal a , a gallon in each can an and er , the first erm , the first call coming back was at that big house on the corner of . |
13 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
14 | As everyone knows , the insurance industry 's recent experience of its very own crisis scenario has led to , if a particular line of cover has not been among those withdrawn because of poor claims records , dramatic increases in premiums . |
15 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
16 | She gazed dispiritedly into the mirror , and the face looking back was like that of a stranger , pale and hollow-eyed . |
17 | Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening . |