Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 2 | Its reporter 's attempts to implement even the most modest of safeguards for the people affected by the proposals , were simply dismissed by the Scottish Secretary , this time wearing the ‘ non-interventionist ’ hat of adjudicator on the inquiry 's finding and recommendations . |
| 3 | Nature has been banished , technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world . |
| 4 | Families and the law Investigators : Dr R W Dingwall , J M Eekelaar , M Maclean The Centre 's work in the field of family law has developed through a series of related projects clustered around a clearly focused concern with the interests of children as members of families and as individuals and with the economic and other consequences of marriage breakdown . |
| 5 | Sue Veasey , Steven Leiper , Shirley Cooke and Anne Tait rose to the occasion with excellent speeches to round off a very enjoyable event . |
| 6 | Or maybe her shoulders trembled just a little also . |
| 7 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 8 | Not that an official proctor was necessarily called upon to take up the case ; often clients received only the less expensive advice of petition-drawers , who drew up as many as ninety per cent of all criminal plaints . |
| 9 | His first tasks were to erect fortifications , to intrigue to prevent the Arabs from uniting to expel the intruder , and to use the Jews to set up a highly efficient intelligence network . |
| 10 | Into extreme old age he would lecture about Temple 's mind in words rendered all the more penetrating by the obvious gratitude which the memory brought . |
| 11 | They were climbing quite rapidly and soon Maggie 's eyes took on a very troubled look . |
| 12 | Glancing over the line as it arced over the lake , her eyes took on a faintly emerald glow . |
| 13 | In America , where there was a comparative absence of a long term aristocracy , these social hierarchies took on a particularly strong pecuniary emphasis . |
| 14 | His eyes darkened just a little . |
| 15 | To reintroduce us to the joys of story telling round the log fire , Signals rounded up a slightly disconcerting group of five contemporary writers , all strange to me . |
| 16 | Our relationships take on a completely new dimension as we deepen our relationship with God . |
| 17 | Together the two relationships take on a more dynamic quality and the determinate relationship is mediated by human practice . |
| 18 | While watching the slides subjects wrote down the most distinctive feature of each slide . |
| 19 | Football now , and Oxford United fans slept just a little easier last night after Brian Horton 's side earned three vital points in their fight to avoid relegation . |
| 20 | The shape and structure of the houses project even the most individual activities into the social domain . |
| 21 | Small creatures moved and stirred amongst the undergrowth , the snapping of twigs and mysterious rustling noises sounding all the more ominous in the green cold silence of the forest . |
| 22 | It was the kind of hotel where detailed civilities attend even the most straightforward arrangements . |
| 23 | The night creatures which had drifted through the streets were no more , and the market stalls and poverty-stricken beggars took on the more comforting image of a capital apparently little changed since Blake 's day . |
| 24 | In March or April the flocks take on an even whiter appearance as the males moult into ‘ whiter than white ’ plumage with only a black mantle . |
| 25 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 26 | The last few feet required only a very slight rearward movement of the yoke to arrest the sink , and she touched with just one stiff-legged little bounce . |
| 27 | Stretching frequencies vary over a fairly narrow range in a set of related compounds . |
| 28 | Russia 's opponents acted only a little more energetically . |
| 29 | Her ankles turned over a little on the high heels . |
| 30 | Furthermore , at a time of indeterminacy and change like the present , where there is frequently no strong institutional ideology to subscribe to , individual values matter all the more . |