Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evergreen winter foliage needs to stay looking fresh right through the darkest days and some variegated plants are better at this than others . |
| 2 | Thereafter , there is a steady decline of interest in science and this disillusionment extends right through the secondary-school years and into the undergraduate period . |
| 3 | Their lolloping sound occupies an area somewhere between The Mock Turtles and James , with David Ashmore 's husky vocal style uncomfortably close to that of Tim Booth . |
| 4 | We 'll go right for the awkward ones and put an X and a Y in as well . |
| 5 | Learn a little about the likely finds and you can add a valuable second income to your usual treasure hunting activities . |
| 6 | Twenty metres or so from the grass-packed hill which looks over the Rabbit Grounds I switched to Silent Running , pacing stealthily through the long weeds and reeds , careful not to let anything I was carrying make a noise . |
| 7 | The Threarah waited politely for a few moments and then he said , " Well , now , and what ought we to do about it , I wonder ? |
| 8 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 9 | Some power was always available — if only through the mythical Ways and Means Act — although it might have to be handled with kid gloves . |
| 10 | This happened only for the deeper intervals and also had the effect of nearly destroying the core . |
| 11 | Gannets and fulmars appeared out of the mist , flew alongside for a few minutes and disappeared again . |
| 12 | ‘ They tell you only about the big names and the famous dates . |
| 13 | The reader knows enough about the political skills and sophistication of the Zuwaya and their rivals to resist the perhaps supercilious stereotype contained in Le Monde 's use of ‘ tribe ’ : the people far from backward or atavistic , the demand for bloodwealth ( whoever made it ) contested rather than misunderstood ; it opposed one particular notion of government with another . |
| 14 | FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAME ROOM , THEN THE RADIO IS TURNED UP VERY LOUD FOR A FEW SECONDS AND THEN RIGHT DOWN |
| 15 | They rolled around on the ground together for a few moments and then the boy 's mother came out and gave him Sergeant 's leash . |
| 16 | To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox , undemolished since the war , and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave-battered concrete , remnants of the old fortifications which lay half-submerged in the sand along part of the beach . |
| 17 | This was the only medium that showed up well enough against the various colours and patterns of the spalted timber . |
| 18 | The water of the big lake chuckled gently against the soft banks and against the pontoon boats and the pipe . |
| 19 | They gave even better against the paramilitary organisations and political groupings of the majority British population which is as instinctively law-abiding as that of any other part of the United Kingdom and probably even quicker to disassociate itself from senseless or politically motivated violence . |
| 20 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 21 | The opening phase of the war , however , produced domestic difficulties and grievances not dissimilar to those experienced by Edward 's father and grandfather ; and it was only with the military successes and material gains of the 1340s that a change in attitude to war amongst both the nobility and the commons became apparent . |
| 22 | Wilson ( 1975 ) has suggested another reason for the division between positivist criminology and penology : the causal variables that were proposed related to areas that were difficult to change — especially with the limited powers and resources available to penal practitioners . |
| 23 | The second , Blues and Beyond , takes over where the first leaves off and plunges deeper into the chromatic tones and chord substitutions Robben uses in his playing , and highlights two tracks from his ‘ Talk to You Daughter ’ album , Nothin' But The Blues and Revelation . |
| 24 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 25 | Though separated from his Guard , Napoleon apparently remained in company with Soult , Bertrand and Drouot who , together with a few officers and an escort , were seen at Quatre Bras at 1 a.m. on 19 June . |
| 26 | The use of collage , together with the irregular rhythms and lurching harmonies , may signify ‘ in the unconscious ’ ( which often manifests itself in irrational jumbles of material ) . |
| 27 | Although in terms of quantity more pottery has survived , it is the combination of the quantity of coins together with the official inscriptions and designs they bear that have made them more precisely datable than any other common class of artefact . |
| 28 | I hereby acknowledge receipt of this application together with the submitted drawings and other documentation . |
| 29 | When Sub-Lieutenant Cousteau , together with the two divers and their equipment , returned from Santorini , they found the Ariadne in virtual darkness . |
| 30 | It gets a little complicated when you have currency fluctuations that go together with the lower volumes and some of the higher costs … so I think you will continue to see a difference between English and European software , ’ he said . |