Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 2 | It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles ’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum . |
| 3 | ‘ Seek ye first the political kingdom ’ said Kwame Nkrumah , and nearly all African Heads of State have done exactly that in the last quarter of a century . |
| 4 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 5 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 6 | John Wheatley had argued as much in the Second Reading of the 1925 Bill , while at the same time criticizing the sum of 10s 0d as inadequate . |
| 7 | As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February . |
| 8 | The warmth and elegance of Davis 's style was made immediately apparent in the first movement of the Ireland Sonata No. 1 , with its engagingly lyrical main tune which almost sits up and begs to be liked . |
| 9 | The contractor is often in a difficult position , when payments to the nominated sub-contractor are only due to be made immediately prior to the next valuation , and insufficient time remains for receipts to be obtained . |
| 10 | It was built around 1100 by the first Earl of Northampton to commemorate his safe return from the Crusades . |
| 11 | It has sold only two in the last four years . |
| 12 | His monthly payments have got slightly smaller in the last three years . |
| 13 | ‘ This place has got distinctly chilly in the last couple of minutes . ’ |
| 14 | It is not difficult to see why Julian has become so popular in the twentieth century and has inspired writers as different as T. S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch . |
| 15 | As life expectancy has increased and earlier retirement has become more widespread in the twentieth century , so the elderly have come to comprise an ever larger section of the poor . |
| 16 | A total of 2,640 dykes were examined , half of which have become floristically impoverished within the last 17 years . |
| 17 | Rights issues have become increasingly unpopular over the last decade or so . |
| 18 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 19 | Politicians of both parties have become increasingly concerned in the last twenty years about the problems of house-buyers , in the face of spiralling land and building costs and high rates of mortgage interest . |
| 20 | It had become increasingly claustrophobic in the last few weeks . |
| 21 | As for the yard , it had become almost clean over the last two years ; it was all paved now . |
| 22 | For instance , according to the calculations of Prais ( 1976 ) the share in total manufacturing output of the largest 100 manufacturing plants ( i.e. single geographical entities , producing predominantly one product ) has remained fairly static over the last fifty years . |
| 23 | The proportion headed by a lone father , at 2% , has remained virtually unchanged in the last two decades . |
| 24 | The figures on schooling and educational background are particularly revealing , not just because they disclose that roughly 90 per cent of the country 's judges received a public school education , or that over three quarters had attended either Oxford or Cambridge universities , but because they also confirm that this social profile has remained virtually unaltered over the last four decades or more . |
| 25 | Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’ |
| 26 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 27 | Bart-Williams , who has started just two of the last nine games , said : ‘ I am very disappointed not to be in the side . |
| 28 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 29 | A man aged about 50 in the second car also suffered minor injuries and shock . |
| 30 | The convincing wins over the Scots saw Australia take its winning sequence to a record eight tests in succession and the Wallabies have now lost only one of the last 13 internationals . |