Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj -er] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the children worked individually or in smaller groups he acted as adviser/supervisor to " wander round , look over shoulders , give encouragement , ask pertinent questions , look at folders of work , help on slow groups , etc. " ( ibid . ) |
| 2 | It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world . |
| 3 | Yet there is no doubt that at earlier periods he was wont often to exercise both his pleasantry and ingenuity in talking Jacobitism . ’ |
| 4 | If camping overnight you 'll need still more space in which to carry tent , sleeping bag and mat and cooking equipment , and for longer periods you 'll need extra clothes as well . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole journal appears to have been written in South Africa but he moved to Cape Province , and from later entries it seems he was in contact with Cecil Rhodes … ’ |
| 6 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 7 | Accommodation is readily available in the villages and small towns on the way and in remoter areas thee is a good network of refuges and gîtes . |
| 8 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 9 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 10 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 11 | In the Sixth form , we put on a number of plays ourselves , and in earlier forms we had plays produced by mistresses . |
| 12 | The reason is that hot water causes the pipes to expand to a greater extent than copper and at higher temperatures it can soften slightly and consequently ‘ sag ’ between supports . |
| 13 | Up to about 200 km the dominant ion is O 2 + and at higher altitudes it is O + . |
| 14 | The people who win the competition and a certain amount of runners-up receive rosettes and at bigger competitions they receive cups . |
| 15 | It 's important in small conferences where there are limited numbers moving slowly , but for bigger events it 's absolutely crucial . |
| 16 | But for larger events you have to ‘ sell ’ them — metaphorically if not literally . |
| 17 | This Leo rejected , but after further negotiations he did suppress the archbishopric of Lichfield , and this was accepted by an English synod at Clofesho in 803 . |
| 18 | But with larger areas it is best to cut out a regular shape and put in new timber . |
| 19 | It is covered by scales ; in small specimens , disk diameter c. 2.5 m , it is possible to distinguish the centrodorsal and primary plates but in larger specimens they become inconspicuous . |
| 20 | Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads . |
| 21 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 22 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 23 | So it is with space-time : on a very small scale it is ten-dimensional and highly curved , but on bigger scales you do n't see the curvature or the extra dimensions . |
| 24 | While the exercises in this book are quite small and it is possible to get around using the simple cursor movements alone , you should practise using the faster ones because in longer documents you will need to be able to use all the short cuts you can . |
| 25 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 26 | Whereas with older children we can sometimes talk our way out of a sloppy beginning , with young children we have to grab their interest from the outset . |
| 27 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 28 | Pure ethanol in low concentrations ( <5% volume/volume ) is a mild stimulant of acid secretion whereas at higher concentrations it has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one . |
| 29 | Gender difference indicates that people will be admitted to care at a point when for older women they are likely to be frail and dependent , whereas men are admitted earlier when they are fitter , and may live longer in a home , settling more comfortably ( Willcocks , 1986 , p. 151 ) . |
| 30 | As with older children we use the story as the possible starting point , but shift the point of view , so that they are not simply acting out what they have heard but rather they are making decisions which affect the drama . |