Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Mm , but what I ca n't weigh up is there 's nothing wrong together in the first place |
2 | Well the other one that had it done four times said oh , I 'm on my own now with the little boy , so she was |
3 | Finally , the motives for deferring to public opinion pressures are at their strongest only in the run-up to an election , when most incumbent political leaderships anyway try to manipulate government budgets and taxation so that economic and social conditions are favourable for their cause . |
4 | We find jobs for people up to their 70s right across the board , from top executives to cleaners , dinner ladies , gardeners and decorators . |
5 | Managers , who live in a constant state of anxiety , tend not to see games as others do and Joe Jordan duly declared himself happy enough with the result which , apart from extending Hearts ' unbeaten run against their city rivals to 17 , keeps them in contention for a place in Europe . |
6 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
7 | Almost any photograph can reveal something about its own time if read properly — even the boring cartes-de-visite portraits produced in their millions all over the world , offer evidence of contemporary fashions and attitudes . |
8 | You do n't get the Egyptian women on their own either on the Prince 's boat or off it . |
9 | They ‘ memorise ’ the information she supplies , process it somehow , and then , compensating for crosswinds and the movement of the Sun , fly out on their own directly to the flower patch . |
10 | At Brimpsfield , a very unusual church sits on its own away to the east of the present village . |
11 | That first modest trickle would soon become a flood and Guinness , fuelled by its reputation and success in Ireland , would eventually need ships of its own solely for the purpose of handling Guinness exports . |
12 | The period began quietly enough but the re-opening of the Deep Mine and those at Paddy End and elsewhere , and the erection of mills for the dressing of the ore , coupled with the gradual introduction of ever improved machinery , led to a little Industrial Revolution all of its own there in the Mines Valley . |
13 | Augusta was not at her best yesterday on a drab , grey day . |
14 | Historically , England have been at their best defensively with a solid centre-half , and a more mobile central defender/sweeper type player ( e.g. Moore/Charlton , etc ) . |
15 | And then the tendrils of her inner fire licked outwards , and the buffeting of the waters around her merged dizzily with the touch of his hands as he drew her closer . |
16 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
17 | The restoration has also revealed the way the archaeological elements were doctored to make them fit together as a sophisticated whole . |
18 | Apparently FirstPerson will have a tough task to water down the industrial-strength principals of Spring and make them lightweight enough for the mass consumer market . |
19 | As the Lent Family Fast Day approaches I would like to thank you all again for the magnificent response to the Bishops ' Appeal for Ethiopia . |
20 | I thank you all again for the very hard work and real effort put into our business at all levels through 1992 without which we would not be able to have the confidence to face the coming year . |
21 | May I thank you all once more for an excellent publication and wish you all well for the future . |
22 | We can not thank you all enough for the kind letters of support and assistance . |
23 | Salesmen who underperformed even over a short period at the futures bucket shops , were put on " terminal ! " |
24 | This lack of consensus on the way semantically and grammatically related sentences should be characterized is itself troublesome enough to a sociolinguist seeking guidance from syntactic theory ; but to make things even more difficult , the very notion of semantic equivalence is a disputed one . |
25 | There is also the proviso that the theory of proton-antiproton collisions with which the experimental results were compared is itself uncertain numerically by a factor of two or three . |
26 | If the 1959 Act had proved itself suitable only for the control of sexual depictions or descriptions where the question was one of manners rather than morals , then the recommendation of the Commission might have been acceptable , since sex between consenting adults in private was no longer a matter for the British criminal law . |
27 | ‘ Say , were you round here during the lunch-break ? ’ |
28 | ‘ When were you last here in the church , Father ? |
29 | Are you secure enough as a parent , comfortable enough with your authority to use it empathetically — firmly when the occasion calls for it , lightly when it is appropriate to be tolerant ? |
30 | For the Falcons the main aim of this free falling detachment is to blood the 4 new jumpers on the team , basically to make them good enough for the start of the display season in the Spring and there 's no room for lack of concentration . |