Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
| 3 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 4 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 5 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 7 | The Republic of Indonesia comprises mainly some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ; since 1976 it has also included East Timor ( when the latter was effectively annexed as the 27th Indonesian province after the withdrawal in 1975 of Portuguese troops , although this act has never been officially recognized by the UN ) . |
| 8 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 9 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 10 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 11 | Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was . |
| 12 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 13 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 14 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
| 15 | number for Malcolm Smith , secretary of N.E.B.E. , was wrongly given in the last issue . |
| 16 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 17 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 18 | CROSSRAGUEL Abbey , near Maybole , was founded as a Cluniac monastery in 1244 by Duncan , Earl of Carrick and much rebuilt during the next three centuries . |
| 19 | After the decision in and which was only reported on the fifth of October of this year in the all England reports . |
| 20 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 21 | Delegates to the signing conference in Lucerne warned that funding for environmental projects would be extremely constrained for the next five to 10 years . |
| 22 | But their spirit had entirely vanished by the Second World War . |
| 23 | With the Jenny Pitman horses in such tremendous form at the moment , MOSSGARA ( 2.15 ) must be greatly respected in the second division of the Knight Park Novices Hurdle . |
| 24 | The Blackpool Tramway is rightly claimed as the first and last street tramway and unique in many other ways . |
| 25 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 26 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 27 | 79/80 class lists are included with these notes where they were not personally collected on the 21st June . |
| 28 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 29 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 30 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |