Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 2 | As house prices begin to rise , you could see your loan costing less each month than the gain in your first house 's value over the same period . |
| 3 | Although a fair breeze was picking up from the south-east , the harbour was aquarium calm , and the poignancy of this departure from a fairytale kingdom in our pirate prahu was marred , alas , by making so little headway that an hour and a half after cast-off we were still within spitting distance of the dock . |
| 4 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 5 | An implication , of course , is not only that marriage and the family have taken a great variety of forms , but that when political and economic conditions change in the future they will continue to change . |
| 6 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |
| 7 | Henceforth this system provided the framework for his preoccupation with the problems of the extinction and origin of species . |
| 8 | Not only this room but the cinema itself . |
| 9 | It 's only this Authority that the consultation process in this district and you 've had the answer , a resounding no to the Trusts . |
| 10 | This was because , Reich argued , it was especially this individual and the family around him which espoused the grand values of nationhood , home and patriarchal authority . |
| 11 | He dropped into a bit of a snooze , which any giant might be pardoned for wanting after so much walking and a bit of eating , never mind a sup of mead . |
| 12 | Well er they they took so much money when the end of that when they stopped travelling the horse when they was finished the season , they went round all the farms and collected what they call the fairways money . |
| 13 | What principally affects the environment of management is not so much turbulence as the wave upon wave of not very closely related demands and pressures from public and governmental sources . |
| 14 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |
| 15 | There are no nearby cities , and there is so much space that the area remains unspoilt . |
| 16 | The American Ornithologists ' Union became active in 1883 , generating so much information that the government established a Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammology in 1886 under C. Hart Merriam ( 1855–1942 ) . |
| 17 | Her condition is irreversible and she writes , ‘ this is not so much news as an appeal to Somervillians who might bring the existence of these neuropathies to the attention of the public , some of whom are probably in the early stages . ’ |
| 18 | Miss Owada rebuffed the prince on several occasions ; indeed , winning her hand in marriage required so much pressure that the union , billed as a merger , was rather more like a hostile takeover . |
| 19 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 20 | after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion thereof in your breath ( blood or urine ) exceeds the prescribed limit . |
| 21 | ‘ after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion thereof in your breath ( blood or urine ) exceeds the prescribed limit ’ . |
| 22 | and Potts J. ) [ 1992 ] R.T.R. 129 upholding the decision of a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate sitting at Bow Street on 22 January 1991 dismissing an information against the defendant , Frank Warren , that on 11 May 1990 at Jermyn Street , London , S.W.1 , he did drive a motor vehicle on a road after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in his blood exceeded the prescribed limit , contrary to section 5(1) ( a ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 23 | A seller who wishes to exclude liability for third party infringement can do so to some extent by relying on SGA 1979 , s 12(3) and ( 4 ) or SGSA 1982 , s 2(3) and ( 4 ) , ( contracting to pass only such title as the seller may have , subject to disclosure of known encumbrances and a warranty of no interference in quiet possession by the seller ) . |
| 24 | Both these auditory cues should become associated with food and acquire conditioned reinforcing properties , but by virtue of its onset occurring in relatively close proximity to the food , the tone is likely to acquire somewhat more power than the clicker . |
| 25 | The point about ads as entertainment is , surely , that they are only any use if the entertainment embodies or springs from a commercial , selling message . |
| 26 | Any effort to increase their powers , most of all any suggestion that the Crown might once more become hereditary , at once aroused the most violent opposition . |
| 27 | Not all the transactions were strictly honest , though , and sometimes customers got home to discover that they 'd bought a cat or a puppy , thus that expression and an expression bonus : ‘ letting the cat out of the bag ’ . |
| 28 | This insistence pushed the waverers such as Kukanjao towards the clutches of unashamed Serb nationalists like the acting Yugoslav defence minister , General Blagoje Adzoic , and the acting chief of staff , General Zivota Panic , who said baldly this week that the army will stay in Bosnia to prevent ‘ the genocide of any nations , especially the Serbs because they are the most threatened ’ . |
| 29 | Take away this knowledge and the appeal would vanish , for the music is rarely able to stand on its own merits . |
| 30 | ‘ Any advantage the Americans have around the greens has been taken away this year because the rough is n't so severe , ’ added the Scot , who learned much about himself at Pebble Beach when he finished third behind Tom Kite . |