Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was the sense of dread , the awful dropping away with fear of her stomach , that was worst .
2 Until relatively recently , the British benefited greatly from lordship over large numbers of people in many different countries , most of whom were black .
3 The French attacked there at sunset , but were checked by Saxe-Weimar 's men .
4 Yet the Japanese spend less per head on education that we do .
5 Three practices had employed an extra member of staff either during the first year or at the beginning of the second to work specifically on fundholding duties or to release the practice manager to do this .
6 Chapter 8 examines the selection , acquisition and organization of computer software in school libraries and shows how the traditional working together by school librarians and teachers can be harnessed to these new sources of information and learning .
7 Obviously a person who has spent all their life avoiding such situations will never have had the opportunity to learn about the plateau stage and the gradual fading away of anxiety .
8 While the former adhere more closely to a direct representation of the objects at hand , the latter tend more towards abstraction and rely more on memory than imagination .
9 The judge held that the discretion under section 78 may be wider than the common law discretion identified in Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 , the latter relating solely to evidence obtained from the defendant after the offence is complete , the statutory discretion not being so restricted .
10 It discarded purgatory and intercession for the dead , asserting that the damned went straight to hell and the saved directly to heaven .
11 Of the nine shows still in existence , Egton Bridge is the only one left in Yorkshire — the others are all in Cheshire .
12 Perhaps it is to do with the nature of his conception , and with the lustful coming together of man and woman . ’
13 I knew the two plays almost by heart .
14 And is any question of price and means ( the two go together of course ) simply obscene because no human , social , economic or political price is too high to pay for such a benefit ?
15 The two Russians would replace the two cosmonauts currently on board , and would stay in space until January 1993 .
16 Some of the disastrous shopping centres of the 1960s suffered greatly from under-use because of limited public access from the surrounding streets .
17 In such a way are the clothes of the dead put away for disposal .
18 However , it is suggested here that the prime factor attracting women to work in the 1980s lay rather in demand for labour from the service sector , albeit at comparatively low rates of pay ( Townsend , 1986a ) .
19 Gone are the days when fruit and vegetables were eaten only in the area and season in which they were harvested , and a few put aside for home pickling or preserving .
20 Doug Laughton 's outfit , with six men making their debuts , had battled into a 12-11 lead soon after half-time when the game exploded in their faces .
21 Barro is making the perfectly valid point that when the government incurs debt by issuing bonds it is acting as a mere go between on behalf of the private sector : the private sector is becoming more indebted to itself through the financial intermediation of the government .
22 After an informal get together over cheese 'n' wine the business meeting was held .
23 After an informal get together over cheese 'n' wine the business meeting was held .
24 After an informal get together over cheese ‘ n ’ wine the business meeting was held .
25 After an informal get together over cheese –n– wine the business meeting was held .
26 After an informal get together over cheese ‘ n ‘ wine the business meeting was held .
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