Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 2 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 3 | The main problem to prevent me playing on for too many years to come will be the competition from younger players at Middlesex . |
| 4 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 5 | When Henry Fielding introduces the word ‘ pages ’ into his stage coach metaphor ( 'As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages ' ) he reminds his audience that they are reading a book . |
| 6 | Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ . |
| 7 | The development is about to take off , there is a promise of the electrification of the rail network link with , progress on the trunk road is now a firm promise and it 's likely that we shall have er er the trolley buses running in after very many years . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I deserved better after so many years of service , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It is a relief to hear him taking the Trio at the same speed as the Scherzo , and not inexplicably slowing down like so many others . |
| 10 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Even if you did open it , ’ said the Bookman , ‘ I 'm sure the pages are weighed down with so many words it would be impossible to turn them over . ’ |
| 12 | There are two main approaches for deriving double stops : the first is chordal , where you break chords into their component intervals ; the second is scalic , where you break scales down into as many intervals as you can . |
| 13 | The whole consignment , Carmichael says , must filter down into as many pairs of hands as possible . |
| 14 | These are : ( a ) the originating application together with as many copies as there are respondents ; and ( b ) a request for the issue of the originating application ( though see under " Preparation of documents " above ) . |
| 15 | These are : ( a ) a request for entry of appeal ( N209 ) stating the names and addresses of persons intended to be served ( the respondents ) and the appellant 's address for service , together with as many copies as there are respondents ; ( b ) a copy of the order , decision or award appealed against ; ( c ) where the enactment under which the appeal lies requires the appellant to give to the other parties notice in writing of his intention to appeal and of the grounds of his appeal , a copy of such notice ; in any other case the request for entry of appeal must include the grounds of the appeal ; ( 3 ) payment of fees for issue and for service by bailiff if appropriate ( see Table of Fees ) ; ( 4 ) a self-addressed envelope if issued by post . |
| 16 | Its unacceptability would be shared by a great number of people , except that it is a levelling process restricted to a single aspect of human life , whereas the advantages of wealth can operate effectively and valuably in so many others . |
| 17 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 18 | North , at the public hearings , denied that he ran a war from his desk , but he told his aide Craig Coy that he was doing so in so many words . |
| 19 | As we have noted , only in comparatively few nations was the tradition of a vigorous opposition press established prior to independence . |
| 20 | You round up as many others — nurses , patients , whatever — as possible and get them together in as few rooms as you can . |
| 21 | Rangers ' early season form has been less than inspiring but manager Walter Smith has put most of the team 's problems down to so many personnel changes caused by a succession of injuries . |
| 22 | Rolling on to her back , she stared unhappily at too many clouds that raced each other across the low sky . |
| 23 | Street lighting seeped into the tiny landing from an open door so at least some curtains were undrawn and he dare n't use the torch . |
| 24 | So at least some speakers fail to adapt these lexical items successfully to their JC form . |
| 25 | So at low enough temperatures , with the gate voltage , Vg , chosen to put EF in a mobility gap , all the current is in effect carried by electrons that can not be dissipatively scattered , and the resistance falls to zero . |
| 26 | Enthusiasm for the content of the materials — especially in lower primary classes — was still clearly evident and at state level there was considerable resolve to maintain aspects of the new curriculum and the closer supervision it entailed in at least some schools , despite the challenge of universal primary education which effectively meant that everyone had to try to do more with less . |
| 27 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 28 | It 's animals crackers this week , too , as news filters through of yet more groups doing silly things in connection with our four-footed and finned friends . |
| 29 | Besides — there was no time these days for playing the Wishing Game , not with so many lines to remember . |
| 30 | Beneath her curled fist she could feel his heart pounding , feel the heavy rhythm of his life ticking away in so many years , so many days , so many hours . |