Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 2 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 3 | She climbed into the carriage knowing it would perhaps be for the last time ; maintaining the horses and the grooms was a luxury she would have to forgo . |
| 4 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 5 | Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many English children whose fathers served in India or elsewhere in the East . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the farm worker has generally been among the last to receive citizenship rights granted to the rest of the population — the shadow of the workhouse was not finally removed until 1936 , the Rent Act was not extended to agricultural dwellings until 1976 and even today agricultural legislation manages to override certain of the conditions of the Truck Acts . |
| 7 | The battle , between Diana de Moutis of Art Expertise and Didier Imbert of Didier Fine Art ( organiser of the recent exhibition of Botero sculptures on the Champs-Elysees ) has already been through a first hearing which was won by de Moutis , and an appeal , won last November by Imbert . |
| 8 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |
| 9 | Taking the early batches of eggs or fry away may interfere with the parents ' ability to raise later batches , so I leave a few batches with a new pair until they get the knack , which may not be at the first attempt . |
| 10 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 11 | If it does come , say the Swiss , it may not be until the second week in January . |
| 12 | Celibacy , originally a voluntary charism , became a requirement for ordination , although it would not be until the eleventh century that this law would be fully imposed on the Latin Church . |
| 13 | Even if fusion becomes an energy producer , realistic commercial production will not be until the mid-21st century , which is beyond the interest span of the average member of Congress . |
| 14 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 15 | They should not be in the first rank of share prices to be marked down , but would nevertheless be most unlikely to buck the market trend . |
| 16 | We may not be in the First Eleven , but we are a pretty strong team , Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Beerbohm , Chesterton and Haverford Downs . |
| 17 | It is to be hoped that this satisfactory industrial position will be maintained after the War , for , unfortunately , in the past the deaf and dumb have always been amongst the first to be pushed to the wall in periods of depression . |
| 18 | It is therefore possible to say that a standard Afghan Belouch , for example , will normally be comparable in price to a Yagcibedir , and both will usually be between a third and half the cost of a Russian Bokhara or Beshir . |
| 19 | ‘ We could still be in the Third Division in a week 's time . |
| 20 | It almost always is on a first night , when the audience tends to be Mums , Dads , husbands , wives , lovers and friends-in-the-business . |
| 21 | And it will probably be around the 19th — a magical day if ever there was one — that a fateful meeting or journey takes place . |
| 22 | Mayer is a Yale-trained lawyer , his background is equally in racing and business , he knows the value of money and how to extract it from sponsors and also was among the first to appreciate , in the changing nature of the sport that the big bucks and the big battalions give any team a better chance of achieving championship results . |
| 23 | The figures that I read out are for the first year . |
| 24 | Of the hedgerow shrubs which still hold fruits , the hips of the various species of rose may well be the most obvious , often being among the last fruits to be eaten by hungry wintering thrushes . |
| 25 | I 'VE BEEN A BLOODY FOOL — ALL I ASK NOW IS FOR A SECOND CHANCE … |
| 26 | All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war . |
| 27 | The acid clearance data presented here are from the second group of subjects ( 23 patients and 23 volunteers ) . |
| 28 | Chesterfield , who have n't been past the second round stage for nine years , have lost both their League games since their night of glory at Anfield . |
| 29 | The winter isotherm for this might well be above the next critical temperature for water , i.e. 30°C . |
| 30 | No matter how long it takes , communication should n't be through a third person unless it 's absolutely necessary . |