Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detuned my Whites , pinpointed the coin and recovered an American quarter from the sand — one of only eight American coins I would find that evening . |
| 2 | Moving up the scale towards more complex social groupings we come to the oligarchy , where power is invested in an elite gang of dominant males . |
| 3 | Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat . |
| 4 | Yet , like so many other things she later regretted , it had been her own decision . |
| 5 | He treated the club directors with withering contempt , and he had a life-long battle with the disciplinarians of the English Football League , but like so many inspired players he reserved his loathing for referees , that brotherhood of unfortunates whose eyesight and parenthood are the subject of weekly abuse . |
| 6 | Unlike so many brilliant teachers I thought that Basil was completely altruistic — this was born out of his great generosity . |
| 7 | Conversely when two sides start out with widely different overt objectives it may be easy to overlook such common objectives as may be present . |
| 8 | We did n't really need to cut it up into so many small pieces i would work but we 'd get two of these each cos we 've got twelve little pieces now and there are only six of us to share it out so we 'd say , Oh well have er we 'll we 'll have two pieces each two twelfths . |
| 9 | The best players ; but with so many good players we could alternate the groups so that no one felt they had been left out . |
| 10 | Organic chemists can change alkyl iodides into almost any other products they want . |
| 11 | I did n't even write , I was afraid to , co I 've , I 've been inv I 'm involved in so many other things I do n't want to get involved in anything else . |
| 12 | How ironical that in some aspects the Church is entering the modern world , but in so many other ways it is still stuck in the past . |
| 13 | In so many little ways she was shutting him out , building a complete life of her own . |
| 14 | The NCC agrees that in nearly all British freshwaters it is phosphate rather than nitrate which is the limiting factor in controlling eutrophication and that a phosphate directive is required to deal more effectively with it . |
| 15 | They are both 11 = 13 , but in almost all other ways they differ . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , it is for these displays of nature 's most powerful forces at work that volcanoes are chiefly known , and in almost all primitive societies they have been regarded with fear and identified with deities and evil spirits . |
| 17 | President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and . |
| 18 | On just two separate occasions I saw a total of 34 ships go down . |
| 19 | ‘ For quite proper commercial reasons they have chosen to be selective . |
| 20 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 21 | Unless hens have at least 800 square centimetres they will not be able to perform simple preening and stretching movements . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that for very many Latin Americans it is a successful capitalist ( North American ) lifestyle that embodies their hopes and their aspirations , rather than a socialist society which , for all its economic and social advantages , entails restrictions and shortages . |