Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she began to speak , choosing her words with care and refusing steadfastly to talk about Johnny 's war , or of the little she knew of Johnny 's time . |
| 2 | Between the 4th and 15th and on or near the 27th you may face some extraordinary turns of events . |
| 3 | Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects . |
| 4 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
| 5 | The record shows that during the 1980s we were able both to increase public expenditure in real terms by about 20 percent . |
| 6 | Latin America is familiar territory for many in ELT although in the '80s it was sometimes neglected . |
| 7 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 8 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 9 | There is a suggestion that in the 1770s he was briefly associated with James Keir [ q.v. ] at his chemical works in Stourbridge . |
| 10 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 11 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
| 12 | Well in Britain we decided we 'd be on the safe side , we 'll reduce that to a thousand we put another factor of ten in and what 's more i if one sheep in , in a whole flock is more than a thousand units , er then we will condemn the whole flock . |
| 13 | Its public welfare , heralded as a prospect unique on earth when Parliament accepted the Beveridge report in 1943 , was in relative decline as early as the 1950s before its continental rivals ; its industrial growth so slow that by the 1970s it was the poorest member of the Community , as it then was , excepting only Ireland and Italy . |
| 14 | The French were sufficiently worried by the rapidity of German industrialisation and by the quality of their wares that by the 1890s they had begun to invest in Russian railways , coal , steel and textiles as a way of controlling and reducing German competition . |
| 15 | Chemists were even suspicious of physical methods of analysis ; but the convenience of the spectroscope meant that by the 1870s it had come into regular use , as we shall see later . |
| 16 | A lot of aggressive publicity and marketing surrounds funboard design , and for the uninitiated it is difficult to understand what is going on . |
| 17 | Another is food , and for the hungry it is infinitely more important than oil . |
| 18 | But communist and other militants were active , especially in the railway workshops , and during the 1960s they managed to organize industrial action , put up their own candidates for elections within the vertical union framework , and published a sporadic newssheet ( Martino de Jugo 1980 ; Bulnes 1967 ) . |
| 19 | Haigh returned to Stamford on a number of occasions and during the 1940s he often stayed at the George Hotel . |
| 20 | Four fences out , Llewellyn made his move , and from the next it was merely a question of whether Party Politics could hold on or whether Romany King could peg him back . |
| 21 | Very few could produce the cash to cover the cost of building a new house , and from the 1770s they started clubbing together to pool their money to buy a plot of land and pay a builder to erect houses on it . |
| 22 | In the former we look for the objectionable and unacceptable features in the book and use these as the basis of rejection , and in the latter we look for the meritorious and desirable features in the book and use these as the basis of selection . |
| 23 | The development of commercial airlines had an immense impact on travel and in the thirties they really began to take off . |
| 24 | The generally accepted view is that , in the short-term effect , the multiplier is 1.2 ; in the medium term , it is 1.4 ; and in the long-term it is 1.7 . |
| 25 | In the first case we need a level ‘ above ’ physiology and in the second we need a level ‘ below ’ reasoning . |
| 26 | In the first , which we cover in this section , we examine the relationship between spot and forward exchange rates , and in the second we examine the relationship between the rates of return on assets with differing terms . |
| 27 | We have also presented two examples of how rational expectations introduce testable restrictions : in the first we examined the relationship between the spot and the forward exchange rates and in the second we examined the implications for the term structure of interest rates . |
| 28 | We restricted Apoel to one good chance in the first half and in the second they created little from open play . |
| 29 | In the first picture he catches John Snow off Daniel 's bowling and in the second he celebrates as Murray catches Alan Ward off Holding . |
| 30 | And Sam says , ‘ Well , in the first one I liked this moment , and in the second I liked this . ’ |