Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ?
2 She did not doubt but that somewhere amongst the records and corporate memory of the Society would be someone who knew Hereward Marr very well indeed .
3 Not forgetting in that most of the mines then , at that particular time , were nearly all privately owned .
4 In fact the incidence of giving an answer such as 5.882 etc. in the stamps question was low ; probably because many pupils in the sample did not use a calculator to do the question .
5 Keeping in touch with this flow , as well as the hundred-odd pages of daily transcript , was a job practicable only for the zealots like Brian Rome or the massed ranks of the CEGB staff .
6 Because there is no ozone radiative feedback in either simulation , the dynamical evolutions are identical , and therefore differences are due entirely to the changes in chemistry .
7 The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other .
8 This was ‘ due entirely to the schoolmasters who will not permit that children in their schools use any but the proper names ’ .
9 The movement of the boundary which you seek to create is possible only under the terms of Policy E Ten .
10 And I said to him I 've worked out that less in the mornings to have a firm come in , you know
11 comparisons of the drugs within litters reveal differences due only to the effects of X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , i.e. there is good internal validity ;
12 Sir Willie 's success is due only to the dealers ' greed .
13 Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ?
14 The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’
15 Before the National Anthem had finished playing , the first air-raid siren of World War 11 had sounded , a false alarm that sent the British nervously into the shelters , some — like Winston Churchill — defiantly clutching bottles of strong drink .
16 However , the we have recently had to incur extra expenditure because the road that were put in looking at one hundred er er were found to be too high especially for the services and er place er committee which er throughout that it was very difficult but apparatus you know moving fire .
17 This provided a richer and more varied diet and a grander life style for those in the middle and upper ranks of society than would have been possible if they had been dependent only on the products of a self-contained peasant economy .
18 He should not spend all his time on a few only of the questions .
19 Here the notion of speaker-meaning is best explicated , once again , by reference to Grice 's concept of meaning-nn , for we are interested only in the inferences overtly and intentionally conveyed .
20 I 'm not careful enough about the details , and then I end up kicking myself for not , like , stressing what was supposed to happen . ’
21 Section 674(3) , however , suspends the operation of the section where the power can not be exercised within six years , and also the section does not apply if the discretionary power is exercisable only in the events , such as bankruptcy , specified in s673(3) ( see TA 1988 , s674(4) ) .
22 Everything had associations — Dorothy 's , Edward 's , given by so-and-so , bought on a particular holiday , left behind by relative or friend ; Helen saw an insistent kaleidoscope of references , shimmering tiresomely behind the garments and the implements , as ineradicable as the blackberry stains on a sleeve or the ingrained mud on everything .
23 Although my efforts would make Mr Walt Disney cringe , they were popular enough with the children of Navan , and I was soon handing out picture after picture — all free , courtesy of Navan shopping centre .
24 Draft Companies House guidance for foreign companies operating in the UK may not be clear enough for the companies to be sure they are acting within the law , according to the Institute .
25 All that is clear enough from the recordings already available , and even those made in Mravinsky 's eighties retain an Ancient Mariner-like , spellbinding quality .
26 And that all if you put this together with the documents that we know , it suggests that there was a twelfth century church here which was demolished and then rebuilt in the fifteenth century .
27 Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish .
28 The house I was after was on the south side , that much I knew , but it seemed a pretty standard sort of street with terraced houses down both sides , distinguished only by the colours of the front doors where the residents had actually bothered to renew the paintwork .
29 Thus , both before and after amendment the matters of complaint in Schedule 12 embraced some only of the services a society was authorised to provide and omitted both surveys and valuations of land and land services .
30 It is not permissible for some only of the partners ' names to be shown on business stationery .
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