Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to have made a run for Mexico but he had work to do , and there was n't a chance of their surviving that long a race against the hurricane . |
| 2 | Arthur picked a green disc from this box in which all and only the green discs are smooth . |
| 3 | Arthur picked a smooth disc from this box in which all and only the green discs are smooth . |
| 4 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |
| 5 | She 's , she 's in her twenties and theoretically the , the risk is |
| 6 | The other 10 EC nations are determined to press ahead with the Maastricht Treaty on their own if either the Danes or the British fail to back it . |
| 7 | Although they were playing stereotyped conspirators , innocents , prostitutes , courtiers and lackeys each role had a personality of its own and thus a semblance of reality . |
| 8 | It lacks a ground of its own and therefore the opportunities open to it are limited . |
| 9 | Now , those of a pluralist persuasion may be tempted to suggest that the left-inclined critique of their perspective is itself ideological and simply the product of bigoted minds disaffected from the established order and inattentive to the facts . |
| 10 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 11 | In his Ascension Day Speech in May 1927 , Mussolini asserted that ‘ demographic power conditioned one political and thus the economic and moral power of nations ’ . |
| 12 | At this point you have got to say something interesting or else the conversation will pass on and leave you isolated once more . |
| 13 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 14 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 15 | It was becoming something more than just a folk club . |
| 16 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 17 | Of course , the countryside must continue to be a working landscape ; but if most people 's definition of a river as something more than just a drain is valid , then that broad definition must be consciously built into the brief of those who wield this mighty technology of the JCB , the Hymac , and the Swamp-dozer . |
| 18 | It symbolised something more than just a pleasant snack . |
| 19 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 20 | She takes her greyhound for walks , and the animal becomes , tactfully , briefly , for half a paragraph or so , something more than just a dog . |
| 21 | You were talking about something more than just a feeling . ’ |
| 22 | What we had something more than just the bean sprouts ? |
| 23 | ‘ The historical resistance of the expectations gap , ’ it says , ‘ points to something more than just an ‘ ignorance' ’ gap and suggests there exists scope for the profession to respond more actively to the views and demands of those relying on the audit function . ’ |
| 24 | Their Saturday evening concert at the Arts Centre showed them to be individual artists of the highest quality who together produced something greater than just the sum of the parts . |
| 25 | Is there not two separate problems that we have to find them first and then the , then worrying about getting people to the theatre |
| 26 | Maybe she suspected I was being attacked … anyway , she nipped me first and then the dragoman . |
| 27 | A brick beneath him crumbled and suddenly the whole wall began to sag . |
| 28 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 29 | There was little social justice in a system whereby simony could dictate the duration of one 's time in purgatory ; was it right that only the rich could secure such release ? |
| 30 | He makes it clear that both the official guidance and Yeo 's public statements are not supportable in law . |