Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is particularly important for the newly toilet-trained who might have a mishap if they are impeded ! |
2 | The beer industry , which had already absorbed a doubling of the federal tax in 1991 , flooded Congress with dire predictions of misery for the nearly 1m Americans who make or sell beer . |
3 | This has implications for the generally study of ideology and the counter-themes of ideology ( Billig , 1982 ; and Billig et al . , |
4 | At 1.47am he received the bell signal from Rose Hill Junction enquiring if the line was clear for the 2am target train , an express parcels and newspaper train . |
5 | All eight members of the board of the Corporation were appointed by the Governor , and a director was made responsible for the day-today management of the service . |
6 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
7 | For the increasingly health conscious , from weight watchers to environmentalists , Japanese food is ideal , being healthy and nutritious , and will win over the traditional health foods which have a boring and monastic image . |
8 | Despite the challenge a reshaping information services to meet the needs of the new teams , and outside users as well as developing a strategy for the completely overhaul of our office technology requirements . |
9 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
10 | Nicholsons ' pubs for the most part are architectural gems in their own right and include The Blackfriar and The Argyll Arms in Central London and the Prince Alfred in Maida Vale amongst their number . |
11 | For the most part , they are self-taught . |
12 | Twenty-two athletes spend five days for the most part watching their teammates do all the work , and at the end of it all , everyone is quite happy to settle for a draw . |
13 | Each evening I reported to Anne , keeping it light for the most part . |
14 | I spend a great deal of my time in the Community ; Brussels and Luxembourg for the most part . |
15 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
16 | They were also , for the most part , practising poets and men of letters , who would want to make judgements . |
17 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |
18 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
19 | Half a century later , such commentary as there is on Pound 's poem is still for the most part concerned with this question that for Bunting ‘ does not arise ’ . |
20 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |
21 | Even in the central Largo , for the most part sensitively played , he risked a quite unidiomatic accelerando which , miraculously , the orchestra paralleled . |
22 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
23 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
24 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
25 | For the most part Great Russians were fighting Great Russians , and in the process trampled over the lands of peasants , whether Russian , Belorussian , Ukrainian , etc. , none of whom was more inclined thereafter to feel particularly attracted to Muscovite patriotism . |
26 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |
27 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
28 | These efforts proved to be in vain for the most part . |
29 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
30 | Russian agriculture in early NEP was an involuntary small-scale transport industry which for the most part lay far away from the railway lines . |