Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … enables the retailer to know how much of an item he has in stock . |
| 2 | The records of the parliament say very little about the nobility , yet it is probable that without their support the commons would have achieved few if any of their more substantial demands . |
| 3 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 4 | This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein . |
| 5 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 6 | Their anger or fear antedates even that of the young infant who is in the process of integrating its pre-verbal behaviour with ill-formed vocal utterances ( although we might well wish to stretch a point and allow the inclusion of the Ameslan apes , particularly Lucy , up to , but not beyond , this point ) . |
| 7 | Unlike classical performers , the education of a jazz or rock musician has very little of the formal teaching situation about it ; these players learn ‘ on the job ’ , through the act of performance itself . |
| 8 | Delegation depends as much upon the personality of the delegator as upon the abilities of the person to whom power is given . |
| 9 | Your drawing shows that much of the enamel is still intact . |
| 10 | Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver . |
| 11 | Poland 's collapse owed as much to the failure of her serf-owning nobility to cooperate behind a powerful central government and army as to the exertions of her neighbours . |
| 12 | From an ‘ Ideas ’ book , one should n't perhaps expect much in the way of detailed costings of large schemes , but the lack of any attempt to cost even some of the individual measures lent the whole exercise an air of unreality . |
| 13 | The discussions are close to a conclusion and I understand that my hon. Friend will shortly be writing to the industry to clear up some of the remaining points , which will isolate the relatively few issues to be settled . |
| 14 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
| 15 | This week 's gathering at Greenmount College brought together some of the best brains on the poultry scene and they had much to impart to the industry . |
| 16 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |
| 17 | Historically , religion mattered very much at a national level . |
| 18 | Questions of religion mattered so much to the leaders of the colony that arguments in favour of religious toleration would have seemed to them simply a new onslaught on the purity of religion . |
| 19 | As you looked at her more and more insects swarmed on to her ; then , as the weight grew too much for the insects underneath to cling to her smooth skin , great black cakes of them flaked away and fell fizzing to the ground . |
| 20 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 21 | Recession and structural changes in the industry squeezed out many of the smaller agencies , leaving Thomas Cook , American Express , Wagons-Lits and Carlson as the preeminent players in the global market . |
| 22 | ‘ People with confusion live very much in the present . |
| 23 | SPOT the dog is a greyhound in a million — he 's beaten cancer , and this weekend will resume his racing career in a bid to pay back some of the costs of two major operations that saved his life . |
| 24 | The sections that follow represent an attempt to examine briefly some of the liveliest areas of debate . |
| 25 | I 'm just going to park the car well away from the house , just in case this wind brings down any of the roof . ’ |
| 26 | Can you figure out on which day the lily filled exactly half of the pond ? |
| 27 | ‘ I had the guitar built pretty much like a Strat body . |
| 28 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 29 | As this is a short letter we will of course send out another before the end of the year with our new address and further news on the life and times of the Meikle Mob … |
| 30 | With a riveter Two riveters and a holder-on , and then the boy got so much to the pound . |