Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the Naval survey parties may also have landed briefly on Krakatoa , because a hot spring is marked on some maps , but apart from this we know remarkably little about the islands or their volcanic history . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the remaining disorganisation , lack of solidarity , individualism , parochial narrow-mindedness and the defects of capitalist society are apparent in the form of the failure to understand general proletarian tasks , which are expressed most forcibly in the tasks and demands of the Soviet dictatorship , the workers ' state . |
| 3 | Only , I wish the characters would talk a little less like the heros and heroines of police reports . |
| 4 | I think now of the way the shaggy but emaciated-looking , dull-eyed sheep who wander so wearily about the paths and tracks of the Forest of Dean find their way into the brick bus shelters on nights such as this . |
| 5 | Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment . |
| 6 | ‘ Into Western , ’ I said so thankfully to the men when they came . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone 's so down in the dumps and poor . |
| 8 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 9 | So much for the experts and their fuckin' theories , the driver thought bitterly . |
| 10 | So much for the nuts and bolts of shooting video but what makes a movie work on screen ? |
| 11 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 12 | It happens perhaps sooner in the languages and in science than it does , say , in History or English or geography , and certainly language teachers find much more difficulty in teaching mixed ability classes . |
| 13 | He played only once for the Millers and was understudy to former Middlesbrough keeper Kelham O'Hanlon and current keeper Billy Mercer . |
| 14 | of total local authority revenue and people on higher incomes will contribute to local authority expenditure much more through the taxes that they pay . |
| 15 | They were much more like the nuns than were my fellow-countrywomen and co-religionists . |
| 16 | ‘ I have spent time in Greece and Malta during those countries ’ General Elections and found the electorate involved themselves much more in the campaigns and really enjoyed the experience , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 18 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 19 | The Bishop ordained that the Vicar of Hailing should receive as his portion £5 10s yearly and that he should have the same acreage of land as the vicars of old possessed and also " all oblations what so ever within the bounds and limits of the parish , all the tithes of hay , lambs , wool , mills , calves , chicken , pigs , geese , ducks , eggs , bees ' honey , wax , cheese , milk , milk-meats , flax , hemp , pears , apples , garden herbs , pigeon houses , and merchandise , fisheries , pastures , onions , garlic and saffron , also the tithes , sheaves cultivated either by plough or spade and also the tithes of wood for fuel , coppice wood , thorns , rushes , faggots and fardells , within the bounds of the Parish , all of which the vicars and his successors shall have " |
| 20 | I sit on the side of the bed and decide maybe Rachel is right : I 'd be better off between the sheets than listening to this dross . |
| 21 | Butler 's examination of this policy from 1952 to the 1970s shows that the differences between the average list size of the four different areas have declined , but only slightly over the years and with a number of upward and downward fluctuations . |
| 22 | The noises of the place went on around him , muffled only slightly by the mists and vapours ; he could hear shouted instructions and curses , the clanking of ladles and giant spatulas , the hiss and splutter of frying , the sloshing of water and soups , the grating of giant pans being moved , the machine-gun chatter of chopping knives . |
| 23 | So up to the woods and there in the woods he heard the sound of an axe . |
| 24 | By jeep and lorry we moved swiftly up through the towns and cities of middle Europe . |
| 25 | Hangman 's Wood suffered so severely from the gales because , like much of our woodlands , it had been neglected for decades . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's easy ; my affections have been rejected by the one I love and her carnality is being most thoroughly investigated by my elder and smarter brother on a more or less hourly basis , so I am spurned and she is spermed ; my father believes his children should be free to make up their own minds , but preferably only out of the spare-parts that he provides … |
| 27 | I wanted to have Dana beside me as his coffin slid so smoothly into the flames and my mother clutched my arm , not daring to watch something she felt was horrible — and was to happen to her one day , at the new crematorium in Bath , high up in those verdant hills . |
| 28 | The means of mass transportation and communication , the commodities of lodging , food and clothing , the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits , certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers more or less pleasantly to the producers and through the latter to the whole . |
| 29 | How regrettable it is that so often in the marriages that we come across , those are the only promises that seem to be made , and the only mention of God within the family . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've seen this done so often in the films but to be arrested myself … |