Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 2 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 3 | Verity found that as many as ten government committees were responsible for coordinating the work of all the former undertakings , manufacturers , construction firms and consultants , and that , in addition to the planners , four Ministries — Fuel and Power , Labour , Supply ( responsible for manufacturers ) and Works ( responsible for construction sites ) — were involved . |
| 4 | Russia and Ukraine were united in rejecting the principle of shared responsibility for the debt on the part of all the former republics . |
| 5 | The resultant of all the many forces on teachers is often , not surprisingly , inaction and numbness . |
| 6 | There is abundant evidence from every country , and under every conceivable form of government in the world , that every effort to legislate for the control of all the many aspects of human behaviour fails dismally . |
| 7 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 8 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
| 9 | In this way the various inter-relationships between all the many factors which make up an individual 's life can be seen as contributing to that individual 's health , or ill-health . |
| 10 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 11 | " But we know it is difficult for foreigners in Egypt to deal with all the many problems . |
| 12 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 13 | I mean for every great Cure record you get an inferior follow-up with all the same ingredients but without the spark . |
| 14 | In Zimbabwe there are now eight ‘ traditional ’ choirs , all in Harare , as compared with twenty a few years ago . |
| 15 | I I I got a little bit involved in that a few years ago , when I was working on it , having had some scepticism before-hand . |
| 16 | effectively perform natural experiments on lake acidification , with the advantage that the results are ‘ controlled ’ in that the same lakes are being examined as are recording the modern industrial assault . |
| 17 | But , although eyebrows were raised in April at the unexpected announcement that DG would be axing a further 1,000 jobs , reducing the total headcount to just over 7,000 , from 17,700 a few years ago , Skates maintains that these cuts — 600 to 700 of which have already been effected — would have been implemented regardless of the company 's financial performance . |
| 18 | In all the many pages of that novel , it is the sole interior to be described at any length , and in such detail that Richardson even mentions the rusty heads of tacks retaining scraps of a former wallpaper . |
| 19 | He was Galway District President , 1991–93 and was branch representative in all the many branches in which he worked . |
| 20 | Another problem is where a function word in the target language has the same meaning as in your own language , but does not occur in all the same contexts as it does in your own language . |
| 21 | In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5 , they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974 . |
| 22 | How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie . |
| 23 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 24 | Since 1925 the same interests can be created in personalty as in realty , and all the beneficial interests which can be created under a settlement can similarly be created behind a trust for sale . |
| 25 | Without this the same ones tend to be used repeatedly so that visual clues falling beyond their scope are either missed or ignored ; |
| 26 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |
| 27 | But Machiavelli , who one gathers is a favourite source of the author , gave us the lowdown on this a few centuries ago . |
| 28 | If we 'd seen it coming sooner then er we would perhaps not have got started on all the many schemes are actually on site . |
| 29 | The early opposition of teachers was muted by the agreement that they should be in a majority on the Governing Council , and on all the many committees of the Council . |
| 30 | wrote to all the same places again this year and the response we got back from the schools was that this particular year they 've got nobody coming forward who they consider would |