Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 2 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 3 | If the trends shown by my research continue and the numbers of night visits double again within another eight years then a reorganisation of this sort will become essential . |
| 4 | Most of the houses outside towns might justly be described as ‘ peasant ’ accommodation , for Sussex is one of the few English counties where the term had a real and continued significance . |
| 5 | Looking at the remaining 16 error cases from our system ( see table 5.4 ) in more detail , it is clear that some of these can in fact be solved by applying some simple substitutions where the recognition has failed . |
| 6 | Being a bright lad , he worked out that it was an updraught from underground and a few removed boulders later the entrance to Lancaster Hole was revealed . |
| 7 | The pattern recogniser should be improved , perhaps by the use of some interactive techniques whereby the recogniser and the lexical look-up work together so that the look-up may be able to predict which characters could be next within a word . |
| 8 | Another three years later the passion had cooled somewhat but genuine affection remained . |
| 9 | For the few brief minutes when the shelling ceased the scene before us looked very peaceful . |
| 10 | It 's also somewhat perverse to complain about a few innocent posts when the top of Ben Nevis is a lofty scrapyard . |
| 11 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 12 | Some sixty years ago a copy of Lady Dilke 's French Illustrated Books , extended to fifty-eight volumes , with nearly 10,000 additional illustrations , was offered for sale at £2,000 . |
| 13 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 14 | By 1886 , two in three adult males — almost 4.5 million people — had the vote in England and Wales , whereas some 50 years earlier the electorate stood at little more than 650 000 . |
| 15 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 16 | Response to art at this level demands both a willingness and a capacity to go beyond obvious and conventional ways of perceiving and a preparedness to accommodate and restructure existing concepts and patterns of relationships . |
| 17 | In another two hours not a grain of sand is visible . |
| 18 | There are very few new buildings so the village is largely unspoiled . |
| 19 | Some thirty minutes later a crowd of about four hundred dockers left work and marched through the city centre to their trade-union headquarters in Orchard Street . |
| 20 | Some thirty years ago an operation was introduced to control the spread of epilepsy from an affected cerebral hemisphere to the other , unaffected one . |
| 21 | While visiting Yugoslavia in those more happy days of some two years ago a member of the Swanage Railway noted the existence of a similar machine and reckoned that conversion would not be too difficult . |
| 22 | This particular danger in the case of some immigrant groups where the surname ( Singh , say ) recurs frequently , and where members of the group live close together . |
| 23 | Left in such lofty heights here the poem would be expected to end but ‘ The Garden ’ possesses a realism which is not found in Marlowe . |
| 24 | If the plaintiff satisfies these three requirements then a duty will be owed . |
| 25 | If speculation had been restricted to these traditional fields then the effect on the overall price level would probably have been relatively insignificant , since the feed-through effects to other goods would have been modest . |
| 26 | It is possible , however , to start off with good intentions , but to slip back on all these important elements once the pressure of circumstances begins to dictate . |
| 27 | Are these critical differences not an iron law of our development ? |
| 28 | In fact , for these 24 stimuli alone the correlation between risk rating from Study 2 and normality from Study 3 is still significant r(22)=-0.42 , p<0.05 , although the correlation between risk and speed is not r(22)=0.16 . |
| 29 | One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced . |
| 30 | There could be many possible reasons why the surgeon refuses to operate . |