Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 2 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 3 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 4 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 5 | So the sharing 's a bit like doing the times only the other way round is n't it like doing it backwards . |
| 6 | As the circle is turned from the frontal plane 75° , 60° , 45° etc to the CVR so the minor axis becomes shorter . |
| 7 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |
| 8 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 9 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 10 | Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team . |
| 11 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 12 | Cost is not of course necessarily the major consideration ; none of the people the project sustained to six months or one year wanted to be anywhere else but at home . |
| 13 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 14 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 15 | It would not , in my opinion , be open to an investor to retain the purchased shares and , under section 5 , to claim back the purchase money less the financial value of the retained shares . |
| 16 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 17 | I would like to see a streamlined funding system operated by a simple agency with lead responsibility Perhaps a defined percentage should be made available to voluntary organisations I would like to see proper involvement of voluntary organisations at all levels of the Joint Planning Process . |
| 18 | The English columns kept arriving , but of course only a small proportion of the great host could move up to occupy that terrace position . |
| 19 | He enclosed a cover note , explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate , and that I was n't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny . |
| 20 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 21 | Some patients who used potent corticosteroids also used a mild compound for the face , in which case only the potent steroid was monitored . |
| 22 | All you ever hear is how great football teams like Newcastle/Chelsea/West Ham/Liverpool/Scum have always played ( even Wolves got a mention somewhere the other day ) , & how they always stick to thier principles . |
| 23 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
| 24 | To a landlord a dwelling may be a unit of accommodation or an item of investment : to a lawyer the dwelling may be a " house " or a " flat " or a set of " premises " , in other words only a legal concept ; but to the occupier the dwelling is his home … |
| 25 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 26 | ‘ He died of a stroke only a short time after Mamma left him . ’ |
| 27 | Bearing in mind constantly the radical interpreter at one 's shoulder , one could regard these as mainly nominal in character . |
| 28 | Within the fragments only a limited amount of variance in the ordering of the tales is possible ; rather more diverse is the order in which the fragments can be and are found to be arranged . |
| 29 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 30 | The breed is prone to occasional stomach troubles and bouts of enteritis so a good-quality diet is essential . |