Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [art] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ No one knew him , ’ said Raynor , ‘ no one recognised him , and for that the gate-keepers and the sentries must take great blame . |
2 | For example , Spellacy and Blumstein ( 1970 ) presented dichotic pairs of consonant-vowel-consonant ( cvc ) syllables among which were randomly interspersed either real English words for half the subjects or musical or environmental sounds produced by a human voice for the other half of the subjects . |
3 | After this the officers and the individual committees will be left to cut their estimates and keep within their given targets . |
4 | I look after all the bills and accounts . |
5 | After all the cutbacks and retrenchment over the last decade or so , this may come as a surprise to you and has certainly caused us to reassess the way we approach our planning . |
6 | After all the decisions and problems , was it really worth it ? |
7 | Peter erm you 'll see around from time to time , he does all the design stuff erm and Christine erm looks after all the hangings and and stuff . |
8 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
9 | It 's got enough room as well to put all the bits and pieces , mind you if you had a house like that you could afford to have someone to look after all the goats and the hens . |
10 | More than seventy years after his death and after all the books and shows which have been dedicated to him , one might expect that nothing of any importance would appear now to improve the idea we have of his life and his work . |
11 | Thus , in empty-hand combat , after all the kicks and strikes have been covered from every angle , there is nothing new with which an opponent can hit you . |
12 | Despite all the barriers and disadvantages encountered in the movement to a market economy , there is already an infrastructure in place for the future development of a music industry . |
13 | Despite all the problems and uncertainties , Francis remains confident . |
14 | Despite all the setbacks and frustrations , however , Turner insists that he is not disillusioned with the music business . |
15 | Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ? |
16 | But despite all the comings and goings , the Dysons ' home has an attractive , cheerful atmosphere . |
17 | Despite all the responsibilities and experience of these delegates , it is sad that they could only view research as relative to one problem , admittedly an important one , rather than to key issues of the service . |
18 | All I can say is that the yes of God 's love is stronger than the no of his judgment and that I do believe that despite all the shadows and elements of chaos in the world , in the universe and in life , God 's love is stronger and he is a God of love . |
19 | Despite all the ravages and destruction wrought on Chinese stations , some still bear a curiously 1930s air . |
20 | It has the best American subsidiary of all the clearers and a superb insurance business in Direct Line . |
21 | The quality council is monitoring the progress of all the teams and considering the subjects and composition of teams for the next series of projects . |
22 | ‘ The co-operation of all the technicians and supervisors in achieving the objectives of the profit plan will be just as possible ! ’ says George . |
23 | Figures 7.4 and 7.5 show the women and men on each scale as percentages of all the women and of all the men in the teaching profession . |
24 | Each one is a weighted average of the prices of a number of selected goods neither provides a completely true average price of all the goods and services included in the country 's total output . |
25 | It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them . |
26 | ‘ I looked at the walls in the Goldie boathouse and saw the names of all the crews and could n't see a cox with three wins on the trot . |
27 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
28 | presented ( retiring Teachers ' Representative ) with a beautiful bowl of plants on behalf of all the teachers and thanked for her work over the past years . |
29 | When walking alone , particularly at night , always be aware of all the sounds and movements around you . |
30 | Actually , I was quite looking forward to having the mysteries of all the ropes and bits of wood being revealed so I arrived , on a sunny day with fairly high hopes ( along with 3 sweater , 2 pairs of socks , waterproof gear and a large life jacket ) . |