Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 2 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 3 | There is some argument that the UCTA is doing no more than spell out a rule about what is really voluntary acceptance , which is already in the common law ( ICI v Shatwell [ 1965 ] AC 656 ) . |
| 4 | A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack , riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave . |
| 5 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 6 | Treasury chiefs are furious at the move that more than wipes out the benefits of the scrapping of the car sales tax . |
| 7 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 8 | Fortunately , it was obvious that Luke had done no more than drop off a suitcase . |