Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this and much else of a similar kind was orthodoxy to the Peripatetics . |
| 2 | They continued on along the line of booths , each with its owner sitting on the counter among his stained , dirty jars like some vast black spider , past the long , carpet-covered benches in front of them with the rows of men drinking coffee and smoking and talking , past the assorted smells of rose and jasmine , amber and banana , past the odd little restaurants with their grand brass jugs of hot water , their servants hurrying with coffee in glasses to some merchant about to strike a deal , past all this and then suddenly through the arch of the Bab es Zuweyla with its two soaring and fantastic minarets and out once more into the Tentmakers ' Bazaar with its donkey-saddles of red brocade and its camel-trappings adorned with cowries and little bits of looking-glass , its gaily-striped awnings and brilliant tent linings . |
| 3 | Perhaps partly as a result of this and perhaps partly as a result of the government 's view that regional aid should be more immediately directed towards assisting business skills and enterprise within smaller companies , a further major review of regional policy was published in 1988 ( DTI , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | These can be a useful standby , though they 're rather few and far between across the country . |
| 5 | But those trips will probably be few and far between over the next two years since his already groaning workload was increased still further last month when he took over from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , as chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors . |
| 6 | The answer to financial worries is to get a sponsor , but they are very few and far between as a glance down the players ' attachments will show you . |
| 7 | The articles of direct newsworthy interest in her magazine were as few and far between as the flecks of gold in a prospector 's pan . |
| 8 | On most Fenland drains they are few and far between to the untrained eye for most of the best features are hidden beneath the water . |
| 9 | Similarly , similarly I have prepared all this but just shortly before the meeting I have had a whole wodge of suggestion forms going back to November which I have obviously not taken into account yet . . |
| 10 | At the same time it seems fair to say that until recently , writing about Proust , particularly perhaps in England , but in France , too , has concentrated too much and too exclusively on the social element in the dualism , has concentrated too much , if you like , on the nose and the beard . |
| 11 | It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’ |
| 12 | The next Labour Government 's policies in these areas will affect Northern Ireland just as much as anywhere else in the UK . |
| 13 | The reason it 's come out in this way is that you had the debate on the er original proposals for this extra money which did n't go as was recommended er and you made a decision on that and then later in the agenda , and I ca n't find the , the exact point now but you had a discussion and a suggestion was made and agreed that if there was any money left over investigations should be made and that the surveyor should give erm consideration Madam Chairman to using any of that , perhaps for a camera , and that was agreed , and it is noted somewhere , and that 's what Mr has done . |
| 14 | And I think , yes we will do all that but not quite to the extreme and we should try now and sell more during the year and really see how the flow goes . |
| 15 | Erm if we can just sort of work out in our own minds what , I , I do n't want addresses or anything like that , so do n't say oh I 'll break into number six , or anything like that but just anywhere in the area of Farnsfield imagine houses yourself , is to what sort of type of house we break into . |
| 16 | His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea . |
| 17 | In a typical monogamous bird like the robin , the male and female stay more or less apart during the non-breeding season , and only pair up shortly before breeding . |
| 18 | Orcs exist more or less everywhere in the Old World , in the lands to the east , and in the far north western realm of Naggaroth beyond the Sea of Chaos . |
| 19 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 20 | I reiterate what the Minister said : the aerospace industry in general is exporting more than ever before in the face of substantial competition from abroad . |
| 21 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 22 | When employees are dissatisfied with aspects of formal organisation ( eg. they dislike the work they do or the person they work for ) they are likely to rely more and more heavily on an informal organisation at work to satisfy their personal needs in their work situation . |
| 23 | She went on to open more and more all over the country . |
| 24 | As his mind wanders guiltily over the past and longingly towards a future which even he now realises can never be , the Passacaglia motif anchors him more and more inescapably in the present , with the posse of Borough vigilantes coming nearer and nearer . |
| 25 | But as long as the A level system remains , pupils at school will be required severely to limit their choice of subjects , it being assumed that the only way to ensure ‘ standards of excellence , is to go more and more deeply into an ever narrower range of subjects . |
| 26 | In the three decades before the First World War , the great house appears more and more often as a picture , with a dream-like , self-sufficient existence of its own . |
| 27 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |