Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , remarkably few birds of prey survive their first winter in the wild , but once they have done so life seems to be a bit easier for them . |
| 2 | Then perhaps some joints of meat , or a fowl . |
| 3 | There would be no hard news , said the DoI , but if we were interested in learning the background it would bring together some experts on fibre optics to brief us on this new technology . |
| 4 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 5 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 6 | Why are there so few collectors of art in the United Kingdom ? |
| 7 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 8 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 9 | Suppose we can rescue only some prisoners of tyranny ; justice hardly requires rescuing none even when only luck , not any principle , will decide whom we save and whom we leave to torture . |
| 10 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 11 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Got ta hand in , had to hand in some investigations for maths . |
| 13 | The use of medical terminology in the book is to be applauded , particularly as definitions are given , which it is to be hoped , will assist in breaking down some barriers between health professionals and the lay public . |
| 14 | Eventually tracking down some bottles of alcohol in the kitchen , she popped her head back around the door to ask Ross what he wanted . |
| 15 | Take in every little movement they make , watch how they immediately gulp down some items of food , when at other times they will suck and blow it out several times before consuming it . |
| 16 | It is always wise for the counsellor to be aware of any possible worries that the counsellee might have about the meeting , and have ready some words of reassurance about the purpose of their meeting . |
| 17 | We should also remember that just as not every piece of writing need go through one or more stages of drafting , so some pieces of writing need not be pursued to a finished stage . |
| 18 | Just as adherents of astrology , when predicted events fail to appear , find reasons from within the scheme of astrology for the failure , so some apologists for psychoanalysis find reasons why their hypotheses and predictions do not stand the test . |
| 19 | Perhaps such abbreviations of thought are inevitable in the limited space available for text on a display label . |
| 20 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 21 | I conclude that which I took so much pains about will never come to thy hands . |
| 22 | We departed by the garden staircase , bringing with us only such articles of apparel and personal effects as could be worn or carried . |
| 23 | Oddly enough these men of science are not only willing but eager to talk on their subject , and to that end he 's invited the author of his present reading matter to lunch on Sunday to explain about ‘ … anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibodies , that … ’ |
| 24 | Together these trends towards pressure , protest and censorship at a national level , demand in turn from librarians a national and global response , or in other words a consistent and professional approach to and reaction against censorship . |
| 25 | Listeners were not pleased to learn that the Commons sometimes sounded like an undergraduate debating society and so these broadcasts of question time ceased . |
| 26 | So these conditions of service then are those which apply to all current and future staff . |
| 27 | Gay men attending STD clinics tend to be more sexually active than gay men in general , so these rates of infection do not apply to all gay men . |
| 28 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 29 | Between these two extremes there are obviously many degrees of importance , so we can hardly make hard and fast rules which suit all occasions . |
| 30 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |