Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here we take the road marked Curral das Freiras for a short but very scenic and awe-inspiring drive . |
| 2 | True , with a firm the size of Stevenson 's , working on up to fifty contracts for a dozen or so companies , there could never be so dead a reckoning that the final moment could be named with certainty . |
| 3 | They were the kinds of places in which learned authorities paraded such things as the wonders of nature , the relics of past ages , and the achievements of great people , before the eyes of a deferential and often uncomprehending populace . |
| 4 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 5 | All these , as well as many of their innocent relatives and acquaintances , were to find themselves condemned to the mercies of a capricious and often brutal exile administration which many were neither physically nor spiritually able to withstand . |
| 6 | The much vaunted scum defence leaks two goals against a plucky though rather ordinary side ; ho ho ho . |
| 7 | Far better have many moots with a small or even no audience than one moot with a large audience . |
| 8 | Never accept lifts from a stranger and never use ‘ moonlighting ’ cabs , no matter how desperate you are . |
| 9 | However , we would suggest caution in making generalisations from the results given the eventual shortfall of nine schools from a small and carefully constructed sample . |
| 10 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 11 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 12 | The call brought all three heads round , both men grinned , and Travis climbed to his feet as a young and visibly pregnant redhead came into view . |
| 13 | Then , they 'd never read their chart books , otherwise they 'd have known that the blues has always provided record companies with a regular and often low-cost source of income . |
| 14 | Furthermore , since there are now well-established Caribbean communities in a dozen or so English cities , each with a slightly different population distribution and distinct needs , any attempt to discuss the language behaviour of Caribbeans in Britain will need to consider each community separately . |
| 15 | At a stroke , family ties were disrupted : children found themselves , at an appallingly early age , having to stand on their own two feet in a strange and often hostile environment ; parents were suddenly deprived of their offspring . |
| 16 | All they wanted was to live out their lives in a peaceful and financially comfortable exile and they had no thought of putting themselves or their positions at risk by indulging in some political adventure . |
| 17 | She and her daughter set up schools in New Haven and New York , where her daughter died in 1828 , leaving her and her four grandchildren to a semi-nomadic and seemingly ill-fated existence in America . |
| 18 | The advantage of a Statutory Demand over the filing of a High Court writ or County Court summons is that it tends to bring on matters at a faster and more urgent rate . |
| 19 | He and his daughter , he imagined , would form an alliance based on shared jokes and secret indulgences against a lonely and often disapproving wife . |
| 20 | Some cultures emphasize the values of cooperating with others , conciliating opposing views , and being prepared to compromise and submerge one 's own ideas in a broader and more popularly acceptable solution . |
| 21 | It can afford motivation as hardly anything else can , and its influence can help both society and individuals to a fuller and more satisfying form of life . |
| 22 | I just run local affairs for a dozen or so missions . ’ |
| 23 | He is , however , not a trustworthy sprite , and delights in practical jokes of a bizarre and sometimes gruesome nature . |
| 24 | It is priced at $95 in quantities of a thousand or more . |
| 25 | What is missing is an appropriate forum to merge the various efforts into a functional and widely acceptable whole . |
| 26 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 27 | Students reading philosophy should be able to think about such questions in a clearer and more disciplined manner than was possible to them before . |
| 28 | A new owner , or his agent , may have found too many properties to maintain , at the same time new premises would have been needed for managers in a central or more convenient position relative to the estate , or within reach of an important market . |
| 29 | Hence far from state welfare being a morally superior form of meeting social needs , as claimed by Fabian socialists , for the New Right state welfare is paternalistic and morally bankrupt , rationing resources in a biased and potentially discriminatory way . |
| 30 | because even the name — ‘ overloaded government ’ , the technobureaucratic elite'. — and so on — may place the phenomena within a specific and specifically limited theoretical construct of which the initial apparently innocent name is part . |