Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a large warren complex it is possible for as many warreners to work independently as there is surface space for them to use . |
| 2 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 3 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 4 | There was no mention of hair , though Rufus knew hair could persist intact for far more years than those bones had been in the grave , and there was nothing about clothing . |
| 5 | Later in the same year the MWCo was instrumental in having a receiver appointed to run the railway — a move which may well have helped to keep the BCR alive for so many years . |
| 6 | However , I do feel optimistic that our growing understanding of our diverse cultures and histories , which exposes the myths and stereotypes we have been force-fed by the British for too many generations , will forge an increasingly powerful alliance in our struggle against racism in this country . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the whole event ( or at least our perception of it ) remains resolutely British with even more paintings than usual from the public , as the walls are to be hung up to four deep . |
| 8 | We 're now sitting down to pick a squad for New Zealand where things will be different in so many respects . ’ |
| 9 | Walking is really two separate transport modes , as travel on foot to access other modes such as car or bus is different in almost all respects from walking the whole way . |
| 10 | When we are privileged to know this in advance ( and I think that it is wrong in nearly all cases not to tell a dying patient ) it is a time for preparation and repentance , and ultimately of acceptance . |
| 11 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 12 | You can not get interested in so many things . |
| 13 | If this conjecture is at all sound , then the distribution of occurrences of both in conjunction with a pronoun should be more prevalent in just those cases where plural references are in the minority , i.e. in the ‘ with ’ condition , and in the mixed description condition . |
| 14 | It is only small because a very limited number of Conservatives on the back benches are not totally reliable on too many occasions . |
| 15 | If something completely or partly false , however innocuous , can be shown as real for so many years , then anything false can be shown as real , and be believed … . |
| 16 | This pattern of behaviour , typical of so many dieters , is not just bad for physical health , it is detrimental to psychological and social well-being too . |
| 17 | I suppose we 're typical of so many families that split up over the changes . |
| 18 | The lane into the house was narrow and winding with too many gates so he parked the car on the wide grass margin beside the platform for the creamery cans . |
| 19 | One of the oddities of child development is that the word meaning ‘ mother ’ is so similar in so many languages . |
| 20 | One difficulty is that whereas in London , London English is felt to be appropriate in nearly all situations , Creole is appropriate only in some of these . |
| 21 | Although advances such as secondary high-limit thermostats , which cut off the power if the fryer overheats , are now fitted as standard on almost all machines , there have been plenty of other developments . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the rule is subject to so many exceptions that they have practically destroyed the rule . |
| 23 | A specifically military form of life was characteristic for practically all areas of southern Siberia . |
| 24 | The domestic energy demand has remained constant for very many years . |
| 25 | The press serves it too well for that to happen and so the problems which have taxed the left for so many years will continue to haunt it in the future . |
| 26 | She is cheerful and stoical like so many others in her position , but to any outsider it seems like a hard life . |
| 27 | Terry went to the cinema with Sarah , and to the caelidhe with her and Anne when his sister was free to go , but he found the dance very changed with so many men away from home . |
| 28 | But the brain is three-dimensional with inconceivably more cells , and those cells are far more wonderful for not only can they light up in patterns to show pictures representing outside vision , but they can subtly change the material and they can remember everything . |
| 29 | Yet we have already noted how , in terms of poetic justice for instance , fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms . |
| 30 | But it is rich that John Major should talk of earning honours when his own Government is widely regarded as inept in so many ways . |