Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 2 | The convenient beach and steady winds are ideal for less experienced windsurfers who like a lot of freedom to do things in their own time , or to try other sports . |
| 3 | For less risky junctions there is a significant difference in false alarms ( t(34)=3.57 , p<0.01 ) but not for hits ( t(34)=0.33 ) . |
| 4 | The Red Pepper bar is full of a lot of rowdy helicopter pilots who work for much richer men who own the helicopters they pilot . |
| 5 | What about fiercely competitive schools which encourage academic self-assertion ? |
| 6 | Therefore for highly repetitive genomes it is likely that only maps containing clones from libraries of different types , such as cosmids and YACs , can be constructed and an optimal strategy of mapping of different resolutions , based on previously established probe-tagged sites , must be elaborated . |
| 7 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 8 | Went through so many operations he felt he wanted to give something back to the Health Service . |
| 9 | Because the loops are too small for so many trebles they frill up as you can see . |
| 10 | For so many months I think did n't they ? |
| 11 | For so many years himself a master-manufacturer at New Lanark , he might fairly be supposed still to see virtue in those among whom he had been numbered . |
| 12 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 13 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 14 | Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ? |
| 15 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 16 | It saw a pre-tax return of £10.1m ( more than one-sixth of its total profits in 1990/91 ) on a 31 December 1990 investment of £38m ( increased by a further £24m in August last year ) and now has a subsidiary worth perhaps six times its cost . |
| 17 | Former youth player Jason Titmuss grabbed star billing with nine goals , including the first after just two minutes which started the avalanche . |
| 18 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |
| 19 | Given that we need to ensure that we should have as a priority the conservation of resources and energy efficiency , whatever the amount of reserves of oil and gas , what progress has been made by the Department and the Treasury in discussions with the European Community on the value added tax harmonisation talks with a view to the introduction of a lower level of VAT for environmentally friendly technologies which conserve resources ? |
| 20 | The newcomers often act as easily identifiable scapegoats who can be blamed for many of the deprivations which the contemporary rural population suffers — ; poor amenities , remoteness from the centres of private and public decision-making , and so on . |
| 21 | For generally busy scenes there was no correlation between B and the amount of fixed objects , r(20)=-0.053 , while for the generally empty ones there was a significant correlation , r(21)=0.612 , p<0.01 . |
| 22 | For largely sentimental reasons I have usually voted Liberal . |
| 23 | In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped . |
| 24 | Off just 39 balls he made 82 astonishing runs , and the innings closed on 229 , setting England a run rate of 6.2 an over . |
| 25 | They ought to suggest also that he thought more deeply than his critics have ever recognised about just those issues he is commonly alleged to ignore : the processes of temptation , the complex nature of good and evil , the relationship between reality and our fallible perception of it . |
| 26 | For just two-coloured stripes you can still work in regular row sections but if you have the purl side as the right side the stripes blur in a pleasant way and merge toning colours splendidly . |
| 27 | Begun in 1446 by Henry VI as a private place of worship for just 70 scholars it took no less than 69 years to build , being completed in 1515 on the instructions of Henry VII but only after his death . |
| 28 | The subject of Les Fruits d'or ( 1963 ) is a novel which is itself entitled ‘ Les Fruits d'or ’ ; this situation acts as a catalyst for tropistic interactions amongst a set of predominantly anonymous figures who are trapped within the fixed patterns of social discourse . |
| 29 | The second type is that of rather specific passages which contain a recognizable shift on pre-conciliar teaching . |
| 30 | We should listen to how people actually want to make a contribution and base our structures on their views , instead of rather male structures which demand substantial commitment . |