Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And drags down Mira to the nether World .
2 Austria functioned as a semi-democracy , only Czechoslovakia as a real one , until Hitler crushed them .
3 ‘ So you brought in Gerald on the open side .
4 The decision by Nicaragua to open diplomatic relations with Taiwan in November meant that only Mexico of the Central American countries maintained ties exclusively with the mainland .
5 The shock waves of this political explosion engulfed the whole of Europe , so that by 1848 only England of the major nations had not experienced a revolution .
6 I mean if you go down Cornmarket in a normal summer , you can hardly hear anything but erm American voices , so it just shows that there is a vast potential there , but it 's getting them here .
7 So Newcomen in the short term was the saviour of the mining industry .
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10 You see the Iesus Hominis I H S. And then round that maria so Christ in the virgin womb and then Iesus round the outside .
11 And so Demeter in the lengthening days ,
12 Only Michels among the classical theorists undertook very systematic research , and even work by post-war writers such as Mills was criticized by pluralists as unsystematic and impressionistic .
13 He had guessed than that it was his mother — with Senga in tow — heading off to ten o'clock Mass in the nearby church .
14 However , except for the most self-sealed at one end — and how many of these are left after even Burma appears to consider re-entering the world ? — and perhaps Japan at the other extreme , the ‘ national economy ’ is not what it was .
15 Nithard gives more information than any other contemporary about how kings , and especially Charles at the very outset of his reign , measured up to these requirements .
16 Tippett turned down Auden as a possible collaborator .
17 The week before England took on Scotland for the Grand Slam , Harlequins travelled to Gloucester for a league match .
18 One month later I did visit the Embassy , a little Russia behind a wrought-iron gate and walls once used to confine Cossack prisoners .
19 Was he not Quechua with an Inca name which meant lanza sagrada , sacred lance ?
20 The trade was sufficiently profitable for the Portuguese to take over Sofala in the early sixteenth century , and their written accounts confirm that the export cargoes were brought to the coast by African representatives of the Shona king or monomutapa .
21 Thus France after the high ground of the early Middle Ages descended into a trough from which the nation would be raised only centuries later by the great Capetians Philip Augustus and St Louis : feudal monarchs who defused feudalism .
22 Perhaps the most poignant echo in the tale comes towards the end where the townspeople , laughing at John , " " kiken and … cape " " , " peer and gape " , into his roof ( 3841 ) , repeating the verb used of Nicholas pretending to be transfixed by his astrological vision ( 3444 ) : the " " folk " " here align themselves with Nicholas — and with Nicholas the trickster , not Nicholas of the branded bum .
23 British Airways agreed to take over Dan-Air for a nominal £1 ; the company will also assume Dan-Air 's liabilities , estimated at £35m .
24 He turned down £1.5 million to fight someone even less credible than Foreman in April , a guaranteed £5.5m to take on Bowe for the undisputed crown next summer , an opportunity to win the titles in the ring and the star prize , a chance to fulfil his avowed lifetime ambition .
25 Buckinghamshire under 21s are taking on Yorkshire in the semi final of the county championship … kick-off is at 2
26 In an interview , Brown said the National Gallery had originally hoped to mark the 2500th anniversary of Kleisthenes ' democratic reforms in fifth-century BC Athens with a one-object exhibition of the Kritios Boy .
27 They write off Ireland as a spent force , which in my experience is a foolish thing to do .
28 At a preview it was introduced live by John Butcher MP , Under-secretary of state for Industry , asserting that futurologists who write off Britain as an industrial nation are ‘ talking a load of hooey ’ .
29 Ansah finished off Leicester with a superb goal .
30 The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls .
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