Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 2 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 3 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 4 | Tristan immediately threw out a band in a dramatic gesture and declaimed : " Speak on , sweet lips that never told a lie ! " |
| 5 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 6 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 7 | ‘ Nevertheless the fact remains that disciplinary action against officials who may have exceeded their duties or wilfully abused the position of responsibility with which they have been entrusted is a purely internal matter which will be carried out , should the situation warrant it , by the appropriate authorities at the appropriate time . |
| 8 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 9 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 10 | They were very concerned to encourage religious observance among their employees , for example , and not only provided the churches and chapels but also influenced the selection of the clergy : they ‘ insisted that they [ the clergy ] were solely concerned with the spiritual guidance of the miners , [ but ] their concern with religion fits in with their policy of making every aspect of life in the colliery villages a matter for their scrutiny ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 91 ) . |
| 11 | They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council . |
| 12 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 13 | I said about to see him and I says no , he says I should of kept the houses and just done the lot . |
| 14 | This means that when I was out of work for six weeks and most needed the publication , I could not receive it . |
| 15 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 16 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 17 | But for this problem , the encouraging increase in student numbers in 1957- 58 — which was maintained in subsequent years and so marked the beginning of an upward trend — would probably have been apparent one year earlier . |
| 18 | Trowel in hand Carolyn stooped over the dense lettuce seedlings and carefully removed a clump of them . |
| 19 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 20 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 21 | The Queen emerged to more protests but finally forced a smile before she was driven away . |
| 22 | In those days , games between Chesterfield and Barnsley were always keenly fought when Chesterfield had defenders like Ray Middleton in goal , Kidd and Milburn , as formidable and frightening a pair of full-backs as ever kicked a winger , and forwards of the quality and class of Linacre and Capel . |
| 23 | I queried the cost and funding of the magazine several times but never got an answer . |
| 24 | She could be abrupt at times but never held a grudge , and Mr Field was a real gentleman , always kind and polite . |
| 25 | Be that as it may , the real question at issue is whether the provision was intended simply to provide a remedy in respect of proprietary rights that either entitled the proprietor to have some entry made on the register or entitled the proprietor to have some entry removed from the register or whether the provision should be construed as creating a new cause of action entitling the court to make rectification orders as it might in its discretion think fit in favour of persons who would not under substantive law , apart from paragraph ( b ) , have any proprietary rights which they could assert against the registered proprietor or chargee . |
| 26 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 27 | The British approach to social policy as developed in the nineteenth century both understood this distinction and exploited it by making the workhouse the only alternative to family care and then deliberately creating conditions in workhouses which were both undesirable in terms of physical conditions and also reinforced a sense of shame , so that any relative who could be considered available would feel obliged to offer support . |
| 28 | One royal observer says : ‘ He was the envy of fellow officers and inevitably developed a crush on the princess . |
| 29 | It was recognized that accurate message construction presupposed the capacity to identify the critical features of an item-that is , those features that uniquely identified the target . |
| 30 | However , if well treated , they made generous neighbours and always marked the birth of a neighbourhood child with a pouchful of gold sovereigns . |