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 ) .
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