Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it earned a reprieve , this time it wo n't — a sobering thought for the sixty or so staff who are losing their jobs . |
| 2 | Life proceeds at a gentle , traditional pace today for the 500 or so residents of Cotherstone Kelvin Walker runs his general store and petrol pumps ( and taxi service ) the Post Office also sells the superb Cotherstone cheese , and there are two excellent public houses . |
| 3 | This is the replacement fixture for the abandoned and highly successful Coalville Open Days of many previous years , which raised many thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 4 | I know people say well oh it 's , of course it 's changed ownership , well things change ownership and it can be for the better as well for the worst ca n't it ? |
| 5 | Permission was given for " making of such engine or Engine Buildings or Buildings for the better & more effectual discovery , working and conveying on of such mines and veins … |
| 6 | If that is so , it constitutes a general reason for the ordinary and perhaps irresistible belief that reality is in whole or in part a matter of causal and other nomic connections . |
| 7 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 8 | She can barely move in her Gloucestershire home for the 200 or so ticking treasures jostling for space on the walls , mantelpieces and floors — anywhere where there 's a minute space to be had . |
| 9 | For the 200 or so who attended , everyone appeared to have been unanimous in believing that the scheme had been wholly beneficial in broadening cultural life in villages . |
| 10 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 11 | He was detected at the check-out point before he had paid for the joint and later convicted of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 12 | The only modifications to the logic discussed above are that the code for ‘ square occupied ’ is no longer 1 , but is the actual stream number ( 1 for the first stream , 2 for the second and so on ) . |
| 13 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 14 | Advertising by manufacturers has become notorious for the extravagant but contractually ineffective commendation of goods . |
| 15 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 16 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 17 | Malcolmson has shown that fairs had special significance in terms of courtship and sexual activity for the young as well as allowing participants the chance of winning status and prestige among their peers . |
| 18 | The cinema industry has always thrived , or survived , on colossal waste — the worst-kept secret of the American film industry , if not of the American economy in general , and probably the real reason for the continued and apparently unshakable worldwide dominance of Hollywood . |
| 19 | If it did , and even allowing for Melby 's overwhelming dilemma , it is a little surprising to read his conclusion that , if the French were really serious about decolonization and that if military force was properly applied , they could at least hold the lid on the Indo-Chinese kettle for the predictable if only relatively limited future . |
| 20 | And he believes there is room for the 11 or so independent manufacturers in this country . |
| 21 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 22 | For the largest and most prominent buildings , located in that city 's Whitworth Street area , colourful cladding of their steel skeletons with elaborately moulded glazed terracotta blocks was de rigueur . |
| 23 | Capirossi 's first winter as world champ was a mind-expanding experience for the youthful but remarkably mature Latin . |
| 24 | Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along . |
| 25 | The orphanage 's overriding function was not only to care for the destitute but also to protect society from dangerous children as there was a fear that roaming , unsupervised youngsters posed a threat to social order . |
| 26 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 27 | This book will therefore explain some of these ordinary means , even though they may be familiar to most moviegoers , as a basis for the extraordinary and generally more elaborate means that are known as SFX . |
| 28 | At the same time , the mind must be in readiness for new ways of seeing so that it is already poised for the marvellous and even the illogical . |
| 29 | They 're dyed also naturally in the medieval way with red for the madder and then welled to give the yellow as the basis of digris and then a woad an indigo from woad erm slightly cheating there because we could n't have enough woad , we have to use import the actual substance . |
| 30 | Sexuality , for the celibate as well , remains a wonderful gift of God , given because he loves us so. , |