Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 2 | No wins so far mean that Amthaal slips in the race on 7st 12lb and he showed plenty of promise at Chester last week — racing for the first time in five months . |
| 3 | Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible . |
| 4 | August Weismann was utterly opposed to Lamarckism and Weismann 's opinions so far prevailed that A. D. Darbishire in his authoritative Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery ( London , 1911 ) put the matter thus . |
| 5 | The third item , which simply takes the sum of the four indicators most commonly used as measures of ( housing ) deprivation in the GRE formulae , identifies Kensington and Chelsea , Camden , and Hammersmith and Fulham as being among the five ‘ most deprived ’ Authorities in England : while these Boroughs contain pockets of deprivation and of poverty , it is clearly a nonsensical ranking . |
| 6 | The CEO must cope not only with a huge array of often amorphous and constantly changing data but also with variables so tightly interwoven that they must be disentangled before they will yield useful information . |
| 7 | In the 1990s class divisions are in many respects less consciously felt than they were in the post-war era , but there are other divisions which pose a threat to the sense of community , national identity and social cohesion . |
| 8 | The large animals not only tolerate and , by their presence , protect the birds ; they also use them as lookouts for predators . |
| 9 | ‘ Cells need signals not only to proliferate but also to survive . ’ |
| 10 | We 've had the speakers up here saying that they 're going out , they 're knocking on doors , so you know , it 's not just about money , but I tell you what if they go on in the way they 're going on there 's no way Joe Bloggs is going out quite tonight on a vote night saying come out and give us your vote . |
| 11 | In the sample as a whole , it could be argued , there was a tendency for the brides to be marrying husbands either with white-collar jobs , or in trades slightly better paid than their fathers . |
| 12 | Equality of access must be promoted in all forms of work with the right not to take part in some roles as strongly guarded as the right of access to others . |
| 13 | All this despite the fact that many Yanks now solemnly believe that Hoskins is one of their own . |
| 14 | All this despite the fact that many Yanks now solemnly believe that Hoskins is one of their own . |
| 15 | Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust , |
| 16 | WITH the object and intent of affording to the Vendor a full and sufficient indemnity but not further or otherwise the Purchaser hereby covenants with the Vendor that he the Purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will at all times hereafter duly observe and perform the covenants contained or referred to in the Conveyance so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and remain to be observed and performed and are capable of being enforced and will indemnity and keep indemnified the Vendor and his successors in title from and against all actions costs claims and demands in respect of any breach non-observance or non-performance thereof so far as aforesaid |
| 17 | The companies rather lamely contend that the market determines fair prices and that the government 's demands can not be met since they do not track much of the data and do not sell directly to customers . |
| 18 | In fact we have a paradox here in that the areas most commonly cited as those of continuous sedimentation without breaks , such as the late Ordovician — early Silurian of the Southern Uplands of Scotland and the jurassic to early Oligocene of the Italian Apennines , are also those of thinnest sedimentation . |
| 19 | The Croats apparently also agreed that nationalist paramilitary gangs , including HDZ activists , should be disarmed . |
| 20 | In Spain , what Henry Kamen has called the ‘ series of autos de fe which burnt out Protestantism ’ began at Valladolid in May 1559 , while in France , at exactly the same time , persecution of the Calvinists so much increased that Calvin 's greatest follower , Theodore Beza , began to question Calvin 's insistence on non-resistance to authority . |
| 21 | Bulbs of the future which are on show include daffodils of the ‘ split corona ’ or ‘ butterfly ’ type with double cups so heavily ruffled as to obscure their identity . |
| 22 | These are the largest movements so far noted and in some years fewer than 100 birds have been involved . |
| 23 | I thought , ‘ this will make the carrying of the tea to the remaining resident members of my family an uncommonly pleasant event , because they will all smile upon me instead of producing the customary resentful grunt when I stir them from sleep , and they will say ‘ Good morning , dear husband/father ( as the case might be ) , and they will reach under their beds for the gift-wrapped goodies so lovingly prepared and concealed the night before , and handing me their tributes they will voice their gratitude to God that I have survived so far , and will express the pious hope that they may be able to repeat such sentiments on this same date for many a year to come . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman will have read and re-read circular 7/91 which contains the exceptions policy , allowing homes to be provided on sites not normally designated as residential so long as they are aimed at local people . |
| 25 | Hypnotists now often suggest that the subject focuses his attention by staring fixedly at a drawing pin on the wall , while telling him in rather monotonous tones that he is becoming more relaxed and sleepy . |
| 26 | Heavy fatty deposits can be broken up by the use of caustic cleaners sometimes specially formulated and described as drain cleaners . |
| 27 | With telephone lines no sooner laid than torn up by shellfire , and the runner become the sole means of communication at Verdun , the most frequently heard order at any HQ was ‘ send two runners ’ . |
| 28 | Moreover , constitutional lawyers may write about " old " Parliaments being able to bind and limit a " new " Parliament , and may suggest that a " new judicial attitude " ( whereby judges no longer accept that they are subordinate to Parliament ) would make for a fresh start so that " the doctrine that no Parliament can bind its successors becomes ancient history " , but these tricky legal formulations do not alter the fact that constitution-making occurs in the context of a political reality which limits what is feasible , acceptable , and enforceable . |
| 29 | With the latest ‘ S ’ series , and other new models either recently introduced or about to be , Mercedes aims to head off the challenge posed by a stream of new models from an arch-rival that has stuck to its last , BMW , and the looming threat posed by a fleet of new Japanese luxury models . |
| 30 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |