Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Only , I wish the characters would talk a little less like the heros and heroines of police reports . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone 's so down in the dumps and poor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So much for the experts and their fuckin' theories , the driver thought bitterly . |
| 7 | So much for the nuts and bolts of shooting video but what makes a movie work on screen ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He played only once for the Millers and was understudy to former Middlesbrough keeper Kelham O'Hanlon and current keeper Billy Mercer . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | 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 " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So up to the woods and there in the woods he heard the sound of an axe . |
| 16 | By jeep and lorry we moved swiftly up through the towns and cities of middle Europe . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The end-product of such an exercise in a common law jurisdiction would normally be a verbatim transcript of examination , cross-examination and re-examination , which will sit somewhat awkwardly with the depositions and minutes of evidence accumulated in the civil law procedure . |
| 20 | Because religion appeals so strongly to the emotions and to life commitment , it is a special temptation for religious people . |
| 21 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 22 | The raft sailed slowly away from the glaciers and icefields and snow and a ridiculous flapping and calling from the colony , who all of a sudden seemed to care for her and want her back . |
| 23 | The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel . |
| 24 | We melted away again into the mists and learned to make our way back with unerring accuracy to places that were little more than pinpoints on the map . |
| 25 | Anne and Joan had been sitting a little aside from the others and had till then taken no part in the discussion . |
| 26 | Fascinating though it was to watch how the women coped with bad weather and good at Southerness , spectators could have learned rather more about the players and their golf had there been portable scoreboards with the leaders on , the last day , not to mention a leader-board behind the home green . |
| 27 | It is worth making an important demand early on in the negotiations and sticking close to this position thus making the other party have to work hard to squeeze concessions out of you . |
| 28 | Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s . |
| 29 | initiate dialogue between church communicators and the denominational social justice issues committees , to help them communicate their activities more effectively to the churches and to the general public ; |
| 30 | Long-firm fraudsters seem to get treated more leniently by the police and the legal system than do ‘ conventional ’ criminals . |