Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [adj] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all worked with some under fives attending the schools they covered . |
| 2 | The remarkable thing about political houses built on sand , or castles in the air , is how long they often take to collapse ; and this very time-lag becomes an argument in their favour and a supposed refutation of those who draw attention to the absence of foundations . |
| 3 | Stella was only teasing , of course ; but she recognised this too late to control the panic in her voice . |
| 4 | It is much much harder to tame a dragon , to embrace a dragon , and to love and accept the darkness and the fear . |
| 5 | The Bible and the modern world : the problem with which he had wrestled since he was an undergraduate ; a Bible world-picture and a modern scientific world-picture , each hardly able to understand the other . |
| 6 | As to the territorial extent , again the restrictive covenant should not cover an area greater than that reasonably necessary to protect the business . |
| 7 | Smaller minority parties which might come into play include the Welsh and Scottish nationalists — the latter most likely to make a deal with Labour , based on a common ground on economic and social policy . |
| 8 | It is moderated by the fact that since we are all naturally deviant given the chance , we can identify with offenders because we can imagine them being ourselves . |
| 9 | Now , the beauty of this sort of explanation , where you have everybody on your side , when you are dealing with somebody who is unpopular , when you are all desperately anxious to find a scapegoat , is that your argument is unlikely to be at all jealously scrutinised . |
| 10 | Fortunately the rain held off , but walking with Ven , his knowledge of the area seemingly limitless , Fabia doubted that it would have bothered her all that much had the heavens opened . |
| 11 | It is all very well to use the language of manipulation or indoctrination but how do we know that this in fact is what happens ? |
| 12 | It is all very well to delay the onset of a retinopathy for a year or two , but to achieve this , is it justifiable that a diabetic has no social life and a poorer quality of life for 20 years ? |
| 13 | You know , it 's all very well to put the blame on everybody else , but you try and try and try . |
| 14 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's all very well nominating a person to be a governor of a school , but then a company has to continue to give its support , ’ she pointed out . |
| 16 | Because when you say ‘ full backing ’ it 's all very well to have the N U J saying ‘ we 're fully behind you ’ , but you do need to see something positive . |
| 17 | As Donald Rees from the South West Water Authority told the Lords : ‘ It is all very well lining a sewer at half the price that it would cost to build a new one , but in fact it may only last a quarter of a normal funding life and may therefore be uneconomic . ’ |
| 18 | It was all very well beating a man at his own game when she was standing free and able to lash out with her acid tongue . |
| 19 | It is all very well having a goal , but goals are long-term and not always achievable ; only objectives are truly achievable . |
| 20 | It was all very well letting the panorama of London feminism run through your head , but meanwhile Alex had decided he did n't like thoughts . |
| 21 | All very dangerous say the governments opponents . |
| 22 | Desert Orchid faced eleven opponents , of whom those most likely to spoil the party were Bonanza Boy ( twice winner of the Welsh National and representative of the formidable combination of trainer Martin Pipe and jockey Peter Scudamore ) , Toby Tobias ( a highly promising young chaser trained by Jenny Pitman and ridden by her son Mark ) , Nick The Brief ( who on his last appearance had easily won the Vincent O'Brien Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown ) and Cavvies Clown ( trained like Desert Orchid by David Elsworth and second in the Gold Cup in 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Naturally , I appreciate that it will mean that there will be gainers and losers , but the gainers will be the poorest and the losers will be those most able to afford a contribution toward what is required . |
| 24 | However , only 308 Branches managed to raise income from this very cost effective method , and of those only 60 achieved a rate of £1 or more per member . |
| 25 | The integrity features remaining in the discrete transaction are those just sufficient to execute the TPC-A benchmark test — ‘ a notoriously undemanding test , ’ according to the group . |
| 26 | The integrity features remaining in the discrete transaction are those just sufficient to execute the TPC-A benchmark test — ‘ a notoriously undemanding test , ’ according to the group . |
| 27 | The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ This chancellor has aimed and targeted taxation at those least able to make the choice , ’ he said . |
| 29 | MIDDLESBROUGH Council leader Mike Carr called on the Government to introduce a 100pc rebate for those least able to pay the poll tax . |