Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberta and Faye were asleep or at their women 's place . |
| 2 | They 'll be round er father 's or somewhere daft like that or at their Geoff 's mm |
| 3 | Work is also a form of transfer of energy from one system to another or to its surroundings . |
| 4 | We children gave no presents to one another or to our parents : we were content to send out a few picture cards paid for by our parents , to people who would send us cards . |
| 5 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 6 | The context in Mark 3:20–30 makes it abundantly clear that by his cures and exorcisms Jesus is driving out the demons . |
| 7 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 8 | He also made it clear that in his view a lasting political settlement could only be achieved when the Algerian people made their wishes known through the ballot box . |
| 9 | However , Mr. Thornton made clear that in his submission requesting the receipt was merely an incident in the operation of the shop . |
| 10 | Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion , at least , the " strangers " in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own " private lucre " than for the benefit of the society , " … this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work … " |
| 11 | I do n't suppose that that graveyard ever looked prettier than on our Mary 's wedding day . |
| 12 | His return route is not known but he was much quicker than on his way out as he arrived in Moscow at the beginning of February , 1718 , only 8 months after he left Peking . |
| 13 | They exchanged photographs before they met , but when I first saw him he looked years older and much fatter than in his photo and now it 's emerged that he 's 48 and divorced . |
| 14 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 15 | So , I abandoned French and in its place took up Hungarian studies . |
| 16 | But Sauvignon does not come better than this and to my mind the del Cero Sauvignon has more grace , character and length than the much-vaunted Cloudy Bay Sauvignon from New Zealand , which is comparably priced . |
| 17 | We have some people on training courses who could tell that they 're quite theorists cos question of challenge if you actually put forward some ideas they 'll , they 'll question them , not in a negative way , but they just want to know well where have these come from and why and why is this and on your training courses what theorists will do is if you 're actually putting together forward and processing procedures that C U follow , they 'll question why they wo n't just accept it , they 'll actually question it , not in the negative way but they 'll want to understand it . |
| 18 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 19 | As Welsh coal became available he also purchased this and from his Truro base endeavoured to set up a monopoly of the local fuel business . |
| 20 | In order to do this , we need to challenge many popular perceptions of old age and ageing and of their impact upon society as a whole . |
| 21 | It is historical and of our world . |
| 22 | You ought to be careful cos of your clothes |
| 23 | One of the refreshing aspects of Torquay was bumping into first timers , for whom everything was interesting and for whom rubbing shoulders with the likes of Alan Giles , Bing Taylor , Trevor Glover , Paula Kahn , Peter Winslow , Richard Charkin , Kip Bertram , Frank Brazier et al was a bit of a thrill . |
| 24 | Cash and carry 's : tend to offer a ‘ no-frills ’ service on a price basis although they are not necessarily the cheapest and to their prices must be added the cost of collection . |
| 25 | He 's very successful , very funny and on his way to the top . ’ |
| 26 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 27 | ‘ When I was asked to speak on this happy occasion , my mind went back to when I was seven years old and with my twin brother and others , we were being prepared for first Holy Communion . |
| 28 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 29 | A detective told the court the loyalist — 21 years old in 1972 and with his roots in Belfast 's staunchly loyalist Sandy Row area — left the paramilitary organisation after the murder and had shown ‘ genuine remorse ’ . |
| 30 | In what ways was this landscape unpleasant and in what ways may people get greater pleasure from it now ? |