Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This road we also notice leads from King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] as a back entrance to Professor Coleman 's residence and garden , and to his stable , coach-house and kennel for his dogs — which , however , we understood he rarely used except in the shooting season . |
| 2 | The process of asking questions about the whole range of EPH activities , although revealing a number of minor problems , was eventually discontinued because of the time involved in trying to cover all aspects of the database . |
| 3 | I think his experience of farming was somewhat limited because of the time he had spent in the Army , and that would not make things easy for Grandma Hauxwell because she had to take on more responsibility around the farm . |
| 4 | This need can not be better filled than by the Citizens Advice Bureaux . ’ |
| 5 | This apparently arose because of the dryness of the site chosen ; an equivalent set left on the ground in much damper conditions disintegrated so quickly that no trace of them or their contents remained after 10 months . |
| 6 | Initially he was responsible for continuing the restorations begun by Hicks , including Turnworth Church — entirely rebuilt except for the tower — and St Juliot . |
| 7 | Workers in Japan do tend to have fewer employers in the course of their career than in the West even though the comparison is somewhat distorted because of the concentration of lifetime guarantees in the large firm sector . |
| 8 | I know she only dribbles because of the stroke , I know that , but it does n't help . |
| 9 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 10 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 11 | The scheme only operated because of the assistance given voluntarily by groups such as the Women 's Voluntary Service , 17,000 of whose members were mobilised on 1 September . |
| 12 | The band 's guitar tech , Mole — so named because of the way he squints through his rounded spectacles — punches a continuous barrage of Ramones hits into the jukebox , and drummer Fyfe Ewins models a beret he 's liberated from Lord knows where . |
| 13 | Local DUP councillor Mervyn Carrick said the bombing only happened because of the Government 's ‘ ineffective security policy . |
| 14 | But perhaps the changes were better postponed until after the election . |
| 15 | Appreciation by the children of such history , craftsmanship and skill was no where more obviously shown than in the canteen where balloons , strawberry tarts and fizzy drinks made a fitting end to a successful visit . |
| 16 | The suggestion that the wheel is Welsh I would personally discount as like the Sugar Loaf hat the claims of the Welsh to spinning wheels have very little claim to fact . |
| 17 | WWF only exists because of the money we receive from our supporters . |
| 18 | We can only guess as to the type of houses at this period , but if we believe the cartographer they seem to be buildings of the Hall House type . |
| 19 | Nowhere is this tension better demonstrated than in the provision of the British system of social services . |
| 20 | The A.87 enters Glen Shiel at Shiel Bridge and after a level two miles in which the scenery is dominated by the highest of the Five Sisters , Sgurr Fhuaran seen in full stature , starts the gradual ascent to Cluanie , bypassing the old Bridge of the Spaniards , so called because of a battle here in 1719 between Redcoats and Jacobites , the latter being reinforced by Spanish troops . |
| 21 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 22 | part of the yard of the Fleet Prison , so called because of a series of murals painted by a former prisoner . |
| 23 | A bastion of male privilege on the rocky Dublin shoreline , so called because of the water depth . |
| 24 | This group , so called because of the custom among its members of grease-painting their faces , was composed largely of non-commissioned officers . |
| 25 | Vic Wilcox has now , strictly speaking , left the city of Rummidge and passed into an area known as the Dark Country — so called because of the pall of smoke that hung over it , and the film of coaldust and soot that covered it , in the heyday of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 26 | In the courtyard is the Madonna of the Mouse , so called because of the mouse sitting on the shoulder of the baby . |
| 27 | It 's so called because in the past it was burnt and the smoke used to rid dwellings of fleas . |
| 28 | ‘ The removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where — ( a ) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person , an institution or any other body , either jointly or alone , under the law of the state in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention ; and ( b ) at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised , either jointly or alone , or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention . |
| 29 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the way in which Ireland ( Eire and Ulster ) takes to the rugby field as one team . |
| 30 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the rape of Jackie Berkley by police officers at Moss Side police station , and the shooting of Cherry Groce in Brixton and Cynthia Jarrett in Tottenham during police raids on their homes . |