Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably the player who has made most progress since the European triumph last May , the 19 year-old Glasgow University student is already planning a full-time career in the sport following his graduation this summer . |
| 2 | So you 're better having it within one pool , and then you can decide locally the way your priorities lie within the area . |
| 3 | We will extend nation-wide the scheme we have piloted to increase private renting , whereby housing associations manage properties , building trust between tenant and private sector landlord . |
| 4 | Nothing could demonstrate more elegantly the fascination there is in studying animals today . |
| 5 | The physical segregation of the city ‘ offers the group , and thereby the individuals who compose the group , a place and a role in the total organisation of city life ’ . |
| 6 | But in some other types of spoken language , it is predominantly the content which matters : it is information-related or transactional in its functions , and characteristically has a definable purpose . |
| 7 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 8 | Some teachers may be adept at introducing their pupils to grammatical concepts , or matters of punctuation , by means of jokes and puns which depend on ambiguities , to be cleared up only by distinguishing nouns from adjectives , or different spellings of the same word ( ‘ Giant Waves Down funnel ’ ; ‘ Gladly the Cross I 'd bear ’ = ‘ Gladly , the cross-eyed bear ’ , and other well-known punning equivalents , beloved of all children ) . |
| 9 | Like many others , the problem was mostly the way she held the baby . |
| 10 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 11 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 12 | What he wanted in its place was put more colourfully , but very succinctly , when he said , also in 1965 , ‘ However , big the glass which is proffered from outside , we prefer to drink from our own glass ; while at the same time clinking glasses with those around us ’ . |
| 13 | It was n't right the way her heart had leapt when he 'd touched her . |
| 14 | Of young women 66 per cent thought Britain was heading in the wrong direction , and that major changes were needed , and only 28 per cent felt things were all right the way they were . |
| 15 | It goes right the way you can see over there . |
| 16 | Luckily the bus itself was delayed , and so they got themselves on board . |
| 17 | Luckily the plumber they called out to reconnect the water was so touched by their plight that he waived his fee . |
| 18 | But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door . |
| 19 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 20 | The point , according to the restructuring school , is that the relative importance of these factors , and perhaps even more importantly the way they combined together , would depend on the characteristics of each case . |
| 21 | We thereby demonstrate rigorously the results we have obtained more intuitively above , and also illustrate a mathematical technique which is often used in rational expectations models . |
| 22 | George Healey was a remarkable man who devoted his whole adult life to the cause of deaf people , both in Liverpool and nationally first through the N.D.D.S. and thence the B.D.D.A. He was born in Gateacre , Liverpool and lost his hearing at the age of three months as a result of brain fever following a fall from the arms of his nurse , although his deafness was not discovered until he was two years old . |
| 23 | The foregoing review has been necessary to demonstrate what now seems almost unbelievable ; that physical geography for so long contrived to ignore the significance of human activity and thence the potential which associated studies afford . |
| 24 | Though it is dead the minute it leaves the scalp , your hair has a lot to put up with . |
| 25 | But you see , the trouble with polio is that once the muscles are dead the nerves which serve them are useless . ’ |
| 26 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 27 | So the whole weight of the whole er the gear that actually sent the crusher going and made it so the jaws the swing jaw swing and all that , was er hanging on the cap you see . |
| 28 | He could go to Ireland and join up with the Republican Army , and carry on the fight his father … no , not his father , but the man he loved as a father … had started . |
| 29 | From now on the windows she polished , the floors she swept , the cups and saucers and plates she washed would not be her own . |
| 30 | Before switching on the engine he studied his maps . |