Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb -s] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet much of the RE of the past 30 years has been strangely reluctant to offer the challenge . |
| 2 | Neither the debtor himself nor a creditor can present a petition unless the debtor is domiciled in England and Wales ; is personally present in England and Wales on the day on which the petition is presented ; or at any time in the previous three years has been ordinarily resident , has had a place of residence , or has carried on business in England and Wales ( s 265(1) ) . |
| 3 | But after extensive inquiries in legal circles in Belfast , it is impossible to escape the conclusion that some knowledgeable and experienced lawyers have come to believe , reluctantly , that the impetus behind some of the sectarian murder charges laid in the past nine months has been more political than legal . ’ |
| 4 | Well I do n't think there 's any doubt about it , I mean our improvement over the last erm four or five weeks has been absolutely tremendous . |
| 5 | Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic . |
| 6 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |