Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ There are very few aspects of Englishness I actually hate .
32 He 's won several awards for his radio work and has been praised by top journalists for documentaries he 's come up with for Radio One .
33 Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect .
34 Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table .
35 After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear .
36 It makes it easier for it to fall out , when a woman is pregnant , in the last few months of pregnancy she produces lots of hormones which relax the muscles in her body do n't they ?
37 This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen .
38 We investigated the interaction of VT2 on a number of different probes by DNase I footprinting .
39 It may be sufficient to remark that when the instrument was demonstrated to an assembly of interested parties in Oxford it met with great approval .
40 When SAVE was launched in 1975 , good photographs of endangered buildings were very scarce , but with today 's improved methods of printing we can use any reasonable snapshot we are sent .
41 When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails .
42 Regardless of which product you choose and , if you produce different sorts of document you may well end up with more than one , the important thing is to select the correct tool for the job .
43 We have looked at some of the types of jobs involved in retailing , and at the different sorts of shops you might work in .
44 In their daily lives with children they engage freely and fully in fundamental feelings of love , anger , frustration , fury , pain and joy often coupled with tears .
45 Bill borrowed a corkscrew and opened some bottles of Beaujolais he had brought .
46 The word seemed to him to describe perfectly the smelly , often damp cakes of earth they were forced to burn since coal supplies had been so reduced by the constant cancellation of goods trains .
47 First , I draw out the outline of the motif on to a mylar sheet , with all the outlines for the different areas of colour I want to use .
48 He said they 've changed your units , and he said there 's an allocation a back allocation for you of forty baskets of tomatoes he said to me .
49 But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive .
50 In some areas of science we want to ask questions about phenomena of which children already have experience .
51 Although deep-freezing has revolutionised the way food is preserved , with some kinds of fish I still prefer the old method of salting and sun drying .
52 It is possible to sequence learning in interdisciplinary contexts , but for some kinds of content-sequence it is undoubtedly much easier to keep a steady eye on the subject .
53 ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word .
54 It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say .
55 She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything .
56 At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain .
57 Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said P C Tom Cawley had already served 2 years for offences he certainly never committed , on fabricated evidence .
58 So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army .
59 I said well I 'm not very good on computers and I 've got loads of coursework so I thought if I go down there and type out different pieces of work it would get me familiarized with them
60 As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’
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