Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether for business or leisure , selecting the accommodation that 's just right for you need be guesswork no longer . |
| 2 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 3 | But to be sorry for him would be a mistake : he lived his life to the full , and in all his deeds he enriched the lives of others . |
| 4 | I 've had a marvellous clear out — got every single shirt on to the line — and when you take that off you could put it in the bucket so I can get it out tomorrow . ’ |
| 5 | But biologists can be much more specific than that about what would constitute being " good for something " . |
| 6 | No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels . |
| 7 | If there were no lies and half-truths in the world , doubt would be superfluous for everything could be believed . |
| 8 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 9 | He 's the hardest working of St Andrews ' 98 registered caddies , 67 of whom would report for duty that day . |
| 10 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
| 11 | However , it must be remembered that to do this of itself would incur an exchange risk . |
| 12 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 13 | Endless manuscripts , half of them ca n't spell either . |
| 14 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 15 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 16 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 17 | Preparatory men in because if you took a body of men into a bakery half of them would be standing looking about doing nothing until something was prepared . |
| 18 | As half of them would |
| 19 | Himself is right : half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob . |
| 20 | MdBs generally stand high in public esteem — higher than our own MPs — and half of them will have entered the Bundestag by way of party lists . |
| 21 | Not one of them , he said , was able to read the Bible correctly , but all could dance a quadrille , sing , and half of them could waltz . |
| 22 | Half of them could be really rich and just do n't think |
| 23 | Unsurprisingly , none of them had heard of Giles Williams , which was clearly a false name , and Kelly 's description of his telephone manner — a slurred , gin-sodden voice with a wheedling insincere tone to it — covered half of what used to be known as Fleet Street . |
| 24 | Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ? |
| 25 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |
| 26 | The draft constitution also proposed the replacement of the RCC by a Consultative Council with 50 members , half of whom would be appointed directly by the President and the rest elected by direct secret ballot . |
| 27 | It did n't come well from a girl who took her clothes off every night in front of an audience of five hundred , at least half of whom must be men . |
| 28 | WACC is supporting a training programme for a team of 15 ‘ verbal stringers ’ ( or reporters ) , at least half of whom will be women . |
| 29 | I would be apportioned my six — half of which would be business — Joyce would set about her one hundred and sixty-six . |
| 30 | Later plans involved an additional expenditure of about £150 million to take the railway into Bank , about half of which would be met by the Canary Wharf developers ( see below ) . |