Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | In the Habsburg territories also , as has been seen , a series of able ministers backed by Maria Theresa , the greatest ruler of the dynasty , created from the 1740s onwards a whole range of important new organs of administration ( see pp. 153–4 ) . |
2 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure . |
3 | Well I mean if you had twenty or thirty that 's only the same only a little bit different , that 's all |
4 | ‘ It is possible that the body was taken to the Close only a short time before it was discovered , ’ Morton said . |
5 | Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit . |