Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the former is not associated with work satisfaction patterns in this sample , the latter is — or at least the relationship is in the expected direction . |
| 2 | Everything goes as planned and I soon bully him into the landing net , and from there the hook is removed and he is slid into my big , knotless keepnet , where he can lie safe and recover while I try to catch him some company . |
| 3 | Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall . |
| 4 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 5 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 6 | The girls took advantage of the boys ' sudden inability to catch or shoot and before long the game was over and the girls won 12–8 . |
| 7 | It would be the way of our century to say that I was suffering from time-shock , no doubt ; since our personality is largely built and buttressed by our environment , and the assumptions environment and society force upon us , one has but to tip away that buttress and at once the personality is threatened with dissolution . |
| 8 | They were told to keep the volume very low , there was no proper lighting rig and at 10.45pm an announcement was made while they were on stage : ‘ Last orders at the bar now please ! ’ |
| 9 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 10 | So I think life was erm boring , tough , hard-working , pretty unpleasant during the war , erm and I think most of the citizens must have been very very relieved when the surrender finally came , and it brought no actual fighting , and at least the city was left reasonably unscathed . |
| 11 | And by then the hunger was climbing within her , fighting all reason that was insisting she would be mad to let him take advantage of her . |
| 12 | But for now the army is prepared to watch and wait . |
| 13 | But for now the company are content to be doing well by being a cut above the rest . |
| 14 | But for once the weather was fine , the place was right on the other side of the airfield on the edge of open country , so we wandered about a bit , picking wild flowers and so on , and on the way back in the truck who should we see approaching in the distance , on foot , but our old pal Flt Off Gregory . |
| 15 | In France the LFA is divided into 4 zones ( plus the Article 3(5) areas ) ; in the UK there are now 2 zones but until recently no zonation was made in spite of considerable variation in the level of natural handicap . |
| 16 | Field of Corn it may be , but at least the corn is not over-ripe . |
| 17 | Unless they 're out carrying out their inspections but at least the administrator 's there , she will help all she possibly can in the absence of the fire safety officer . |
| 18 | But at least the issue is now more lively and from 1974 the disabled have had a special Minister for the Disabled , at the Department of Social Security , to champion their cause and coordinate provision for their needs . |
| 19 | We had almost completely forgotten about Christmas — but at least the kitchen was finished . ’ |
| 20 | Her brother was disgusted and called her a filthy collaborator , but at least the Englishman was safe . |
| 21 | But at least the snapper was quiet , sleeping in its cot . |
| 22 | But at least the food is there in a crisis — and is also there ready and waiting in the event that a government comes to power which is serious about getting food through to the poorest . |
| 23 | Bill frequently got his fingers burnt and even now he wonders if his servicing procedure was strictly legal , but at least the navigator was happy . |
| 24 | As she felt the muscular ridges pulsing and throbbing she almost sobbed aloud from a mixture of fear , curiosity and excitement , but at least the thing was no longer between her legs . |
| 25 | More than half of the gainfully employed population are in the very heterogeneous Class III but at least the coding is seldom changed . |
| 26 | We may think it hard-hearted of a Hagerhai woman to eat an animal that she once suckled , but at least the pig was recognised as an individual when it was alive — was even loved . |
| 27 | But at least the mystery was nearing a solution — even if she had no idea why Luke Hunter should want to go out to dinner with a woman whose sole contact with him up till now had been violently centred somewhere round the solar plexus . |
| 28 | A single one-off move may be disruptive to overall business activities but at least the process is carried out over a short time . |
| 29 | How much of these the foundation will manage to recover is an open question , but at least the collection is now safe ( there have been several attempts in the past to remove its best paintings to other museums ) . |
| 30 | The exquisite lyricism of line of his later paintings is not yet present , but by now the work is in his handwriting , unmistakably Modigliani . |