Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished for nothing more at that moment than to join his brother and be part of the scene during the heady days before and during the coronation . |
| 2 | There are 23 raffle prizes and our MC goes through them all with full details of those donated them — a cool 30 minutes . |
| 3 | Some older men and women have very comfortable incomes , and the recent spread of advertised facilities for them such as sheltered home developments suggests their numbers are far from insignificant . |
| 4 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 5 | Pre-dinner cocktails are popular , after which those on half board retire to the Yali Han terrace for their evening meal , an informal affair where you can join the others , or re-arrange tables to suit yourselves . |
| 6 | We come finally to a statement which is controversial , and about which much of this chapter has been concerned : ( vii ) Stylistic choice is limited to those aspects of linguistic choice which concern alternative ways of rendering the same subject matter . |
| 7 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 8 | Part Time Careers accepts applicants up to age 62 and handles jobs for accountants , book-keepers and secretaries , of whom those with up-to-date experience on electronic typewriters and word processors are easiest to place . |
| 9 | I am coming more and more to the view that the evolution of life , like the evolution of continents and of the stratigraphical column in general , has been a very episodic affair , with short " happenings " interrupting long periods of nothing much in particular . |
| 10 | These young teenagers all millions of them all in this group that came down and took their bras and oh |
| 11 | Do you think that any of them any of those six were in bade taste you know not not really not really very pleasant shall we say ? |
| 12 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 13 | I would pause to wipe away a tear or two of my own at this point were it not for the fact that the dear departed , otherwise Rory Underwood , has decided not to depart . |
| 14 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 15 | What is clear however , is that when hearing appeals from the Secretary of State as to whether there has been a material change of use , the courts have consistently held that the question is one of fact and have declined to substitute any decision of their own for that of the Secretary of State . |
| 16 | As the report points out , resources must be made available to those who enter residential care with no resources of their own for those ’ little extras ’ . |
| 17 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 18 | It proved harsh and unjust both to limited owners who had affixed valuable chattels of their own to settled land and to tenants for years . |
| 19 | Inflation is far from dead , and surveys suggest that most young people still want to buy a home of their own at some stage . |
| 20 | They might like to make a family of their own with fewer members , and a simple house in which they can live . |
| 21 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 22 | The shepherds , who were serfs , cared for large abbey flocks and two or three sheep of their own on common land . |
| 23 | Both GM and Ford have tried to introduce high-priced European models of their own without much success . |
| 24 | If women have no place of their own in much of sociology , they are firmly in possession of one haven : the family . |
| 25 | Taken together these points have been thought to indicate a steady take-over of secular functions by the Merovingian episcopate , and thus to presage the emergence of a group of effectively independent episcopal states by the early eighth century , of which that of Savaric of Auxerre is the best documented . |
| 26 | As a result , Greater London extended into the surrounding counties and contained in total ‘ 117 separate organs , of which all but 4 are directly elected ’ ( Robson 1948:165 — 6 ) . |
| 27 | His cows produce 1,400 gallons of milk a day , of which all but 300 gallons are used to make the traditional Lancashire cheese . |
| 28 | Actual local authority completions in North Tyneside between 1974 and 1986 totalled 5473 , of which all but 639 were completed before 1981 and thus reflect pre-1979 capital programmes . |
| 29 | In 1975 , Wilcox listed seventy-one newspapers in independent black African countries , of which all but twenty were in the hands of governments or ruling parties . |
| 30 | His vision of society was of a set of individuals subject to a wide variety of forces , some of which such as economic forces are relatively well understood and for others of which the science is ‘ extremely backward ’ . |