Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |
| 2 | I know in the recession of lot of parents have been forced to do just that , but it was always going to be a last resort and thankfully this winter 's tour means they can stay on where they are . |
| 3 | Coming later on this evening 's programme . |
| 4 | We think that it is appropriate not only that King 's Cross should be the terminus for a rail link but that underground and Network SouthEast facilities should be improved at that station . |
| 5 | Does he accept that not only that youth 's family but many other people have a total lack of comprehension as to how someone could be hanged in this country when he was in police custody when the gun was fired and the unfortunate police officer was killed by another person ? |
| 6 | Perhaps some people 's preoccupation with job titles on business cards is compensation for this . |
| 7 | Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk . |
| 8 | So this afternoon 's news that Paul Getty is prepared to give a million pounds to help construct a building to house the mediaeval map and chained library has presented the townfolk here with yet another opportunity of keeping their heritage intact . |
| 9 | So this week 's question is : |
| 10 | It may smack of undue determinism to suggest that only this system 's replacement will achieve anything and that its renovation will achieve nothing . |
| 11 | Every man of us knows now how the reliquary was filched and borne away , it wants only this boy 's testimony to give the thief a face and a name . |
| 12 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 13 | The significance of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066 hardly needs emphasis ; though we do well to recall that it was not so much William 's victory , as the fact that the two battles had removed his two most serious rivals for the throne , which made the year so decisive in English and Norman history . |
| 14 | John Retallack is a bright director but keeps only a very light hand on the tiller here ; this is not so much director 's theatre as anonymous the- atre . |
| 15 | There was no answer , and suddenly all Freddie 's experience , all his intuition told him to leave , but fast . |
| 16 | Ivy and Margaret smiled , and we all agreed that it was remarkable that An Adventure had held so many people 's attention for so long . |
| 17 | With some types of account a depositor can withdraw a certain amount of money on demand , but will have to pay a penalty of so many days ' interest . |
| 18 | ‘ Not that gnat 's piss , for a start . |
| 19 | Thus each days ' dosage remains homœopathic to the case as the slight increase in the health of the vital force is matched with the slight increase in potency caused by the five or six shakes of the bottle . |
| 20 | The Nevada Air National Guard helped open each day 's show with a formation pass of RF-4s followed by F-16s . |
| 21 | For a long moment you , and each and every one of your neighbours , pray that you are not this man 's doppelgänger . |
| 22 | Not this year 's thing , really . |
| 23 | ‘ After all , this is not some lady 's chamber , is it , Master Throgmorton ? ’ |
| 24 | In any case , ’ she added hotly before Richie could open his mouth , ‘ Query is a hard-hitting magazine , not some woman 's paper ! ’ |
| 25 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 26 | For Delahunty , though , although it was an horrific afternoon , it was also just another day 's reporting . |
| 27 | Erm and therefore the , the , the peasant was n't yet in a position where , my God this is not another land ran land reform |
| 28 | The annuity is actually quite a attractive because there 's not much tax er liability on an annuity anyway , only a very small proportion and for her in this situation she could actually make a single contribution of say eight thousand pound , the maturity from the endowment , and actually buy this sort of contract straight off . |
| 29 | The people will decide in not many weeks ' time . |
| 30 | But not all TV 's advertising was ‘ new ’ expenditure . |