Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The simplest one is that the world would be a better place if people were better able to talk coherently about the many language problems which arise in contemporary society .
2 But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation .
3 It was n't until we told him , that he exclaimed ‘ Oh yes , I remember the Institute Netball Team first time round in the 70's — Oh yes , a right tough lot ! ’ — Marion , we 'll get together for a few team tactics eh ?
4 lastly there are those portfolios which have all 4 types of option in a single class all with the same expiry date but with 3 different exercise prices , known as ‘ butterly ’ or ‘ sandwich ’ spreads .
5 I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money .
6 The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported that together with the former Vojvodina leadership , he was accused of undermining Serbian , and thus Yugoslav , unity [ see also p. 37156 ] .
7 ( Germany 's unemployment has for long been extremely high , and is currently catastrophically so in the former East Germany . )
8 You both went into the theatre together from the same drama school ?
9 The Bach flower remedies and the homoeopathic remedies complement each other and can be used together in the same treatment plan .
10 Robson confirmed last night that England 's friendly with the Republic of Ireland , due to be played in Dublin on March 28 , was now in doubt with the teams drawn together in the same World Cup group .
11 Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks .
12 The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members .
13 Firstly , the Ulster Special Constabulary , invented to supplement the main police force , was derived largely from the former Ulster Volunteer Force .
14 Aside from a few event movies , most people see their films on television now .
15 Another very neat feature is that one Postscript interpreter can handle both the user 's screen and a printer directly from the same source material .
16 She 's still on the same drug regime .
17 If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier .
18 Such practices include cultivating on steep slopes so the topsoil runs off when the rains come , or ploughing downhill with the same end result .
19 Temporarily for a few years trains could use that Thameslink line .
20 Hub Smith buys nine NYSE contracts and sells four S&P500 contracts , both with the same delivery date , giving a spread ratio of 0.444 .
21 c. ( or ca. ) about ( as in a date ) cf. compare with ed(s) editor(s) or edition(s) ff. following or onwards Ibid. in the same place MS(S) manuscript(s) op. ( loc. cit. (s) ) in the work(place) already cited passim throughout pp. pages q.v. which see ( as in a recommended work ) ser. series ( of journals ) v. volume
22 In the second century BCE Judas Maccabaeus led sorties into Idumaea in revenge for attacks on Jews , and later in the same century John Hyrcanus conquered the territory , and forced the Idumaeans to accept circumcision and obedience to the Jewish Law .
23 Later in the same letter Lupus 's warning had a plural object : " Fear not the potentes whom you yourself have made " .
24 It haunts the pages of Adam Carse 's The orchestra from Beethoven to Berlioz ( 1948 ) , which conjectured that up to 1810 at the Opera the chef would ‘ hammer out the beat for the choruses and dances audibly on the floor , a table , or a music desk ’ Later in the same book Carse modified his stance , but concluded ( wrongly , as we shall see ) that it was the first violin who determined the ‘ interpretation [ and ] artistic side of the rendering ’ .
25 well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come
26 Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time .
27 To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place .
28 As you have read , sometimes the lace carriage moves to the right to transfer stitches and , if the main carriage is there waiting to knit , the lace carriage and the main carriage are temporarily on the same extension rail .
29 Other questions might be , for instance : are absent pupils predominantly from the same year group ?
30 Lane has argued that ‘ ruling class ’ interpretations of the Soviet Union are inappropriate because the holders of state power do not possess and inherit property but are rather in the same market position as other wage-earners .
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