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

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1 and actually there 's another entrance down there because cars were coming in there
2 Singers are called upon to exercise this talent more often than instrumentalists but Mr Cliburn realised that his success depended in large part on boyish charm .
3 I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over .
4 These were faithfully reported in the press a few days later so that readers knew the position of every member of the Cabinet .
5 Significantly , your photograph alongside Coun Williams ' letter , illustrates this point more eloquently than words .
6 The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with .
7 It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned .
8 It was a centre for trade going to Salisbury , the main distribution point for the Wiltshire woollen industry , and sent some goods as far as Coventry , which was famous for its woad-dyed blue cloths .
9 Many reallocations make some people better off and others worse off .
10 Indeed , as we shall see later , a rise in total output accompanied by a change in the distribution of income which makes some people better off and others worse off can not necessarily be interpreted as an improvement in the country 's living standards .
11 " It would be incorrect " , noted Nizan , " to think that this decision in any way heralds a spectacular reversal in the policy of the USSR … continuity is the essential characteristic of Soviet foreign policy , and nobody has outlined the principles of this policy more forcefully than M. Molotov " .
12 It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar .
13 The new right , referred to hereinafter as the " semiconductor design right " , draws heavily from Part III of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 which deals with the unregistered design right but with some differences as far as semiconductor topographies are concerned ( see Chapter 9 for a general description of the design right ) .
14 The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned .
15 TO CHARLES DARWIN AUTHOR OF ‘ THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES ’ I DEDICATE THIS BOOK NOT ONLY AS A TOKEN OF PERSONAL ESTEEM AND FRIENDSHIP BUT ALSO TO EXPRESS MY DEEP ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND HIS WORKS
16 A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast .
17 Hans Tietmayer , then Deputy President Elect of the Bundesbank , put it this way as early as June 1991 : ‘ A single currency requires a single bank which must be matched by a single government and a single state . ’
18 Mary arranged some pillows out there and cushions from the drawing room and by the time they were finished the antiques man had gone .
19 Too much rain out here an' Miguelito got to cut himself a leetle coke . ’
20 With regard to marriage , eighteenth century canon law , which recognized marriage based on verbal contract , found itself in conflict with common law , which denied the validity of such marriages as far as property was concerned .
21 What is the status of these areas as far as planning goes ?
22 Not only can it homogenize these communities as insensitively as assimilationism or multiculturalism .
23 Indeed it is possible that we do not understand these things very well unless standardization is taken into account .
24 He half wondered if she 'd arranged it ; women do n't get invited to these things as often as men .
25 Discussion of the various phenomena of ‘ exposure learning ’ in Chapter 1 revealed just such an effect — rats given prolonged exposure to a pair of stimuli presented in their home cages learned a subsequent simultaneous discrimination between these stimuli more readily than subjects for whom the test stimuli were novel ( Gibson and Walk 1956 ) .
26 It is not possible to describe all these stages fully here but others have done so elsewhere ( Fogarty , 1985 ; Neugarten , 1968 ) .
27 Structure is a relationship between two elements within a context , and graphics can often show that relationship more clearly than words .
28 They treated each other more carefully than friends usually do , chose each other little gifts , tiny wooden ducks from China , sprays of silk roses , jazz collectors ' tapes .
29 Standards for incineration have been going up too — in many countries even faster than standards for landfill .
30 Communication : Publicise the company 's ‘ people principles ’ more widely ; extend the appraisal process to all employees as quickly as training will allow ; make attitude surveys an annual feature from 1994 ; build human resources into every business 's strategic plan .
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