Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 2 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 3 | ( Sweet ale drinkers vigorously attacked it as that pernicious and wicked weed ) . |
| 4 | Cos in those days , some of the homes just pushed them into domestic service and that kind of thing . |
| 5 | He just left the remark hanging in the air and she stared after him , the eyes never leaving him at all . |
| 6 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 7 | I do not mean a sexual strength — of that I have little — but a union of all my senses simply carries me past all reflection , sometimes into a beautiful ease , sometimes into filth and futility … but always I am passive . |
| 8 | He accompanied King James on the visit which he made to Scotland to impose episcopacy , and in his sermons there supported him in this venture , which was to have calamitous results for the monarchy in the next reign . |
| 9 | Sue had smiled , glossy pink lips , smooth make-up , brown eyes like treacle , and said nothing and , as far as Marion knew , her feet never bothered her at all . |
| 10 | The Germans hardly shelled us at all . |
| 11 | They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’ |
| 12 | Her husband , also a compositor , died six years later leaving her with three young children , and she was obliged to go back to work ( at Macdonalds in London Road , not in her previous job at Morrison & Gibb ) until she was over 50 , by which time her children were all supporting themselves . |
| 13 | Its seven thousand spines then defend it in all directions . |
| 14 | ‘ Speechwriters never make it to secret agent , ’ he observed , perhaps wistfully , |
| 15 | Soon afterwards he accompanied Charles Howard , Earl of Carlisle [ q.v. ] , as envoy to Alexis , but was not admitted to the negotiations , the Russians probably suspecting him of changing masters . |
| 16 | Of course , the Bill includes provisions to allow the assigned band to be changed if the value of the property changes sufficiently to take it into another band . |
| 17 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 18 | Her boobs may look like a couple of wrung-out teabags , but her granite stomach muscles somehow propel her into perfect proportion . |
| 19 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |
| 20 | It 's no good to produce neatly cut panels then spoil them with distorted sewing , so the very first concern must be to understand the adjustments for thread tension . |
| 21 | Would those older cadets actually report him for such an infringement , on Lexandro 's part , of cousinly courtesy ? |
| 22 | Books on these five traditions commonly divide them into two major categories . |
| 23 | Into quarters exactly cut it into four . |
| 24 | While much of the journeying was in Britain and Ireland , his half-dozen ventures abroad took him across much of continental Europe . |
| 25 | The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children . |
| 26 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |
| 27 | Parents give to their children , and continue to give more than their children ever give them in most cases , although one situation in which this flow often is reversed is where children have migrated to a more affluent country , and expect to send money back to their parents ( see for example , Thorogood , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | It is worth fifty dollars a night , and you guys probably want it for thirty , right ? ’ |
| 29 | The restaurant manager called all his waiters together to warn them about shady customers . |
| 30 | Irrespective of their original function , these historical documents now provide us with many fascinating insights into the way we were . |