Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , after ten minutes or so my hand on Karen 's knee was starting to feel like one lump of meat resting on another . |
| 2 | But when it comes to defending Smashing Pumpkins ' tendency to write eight-minute epics he makes an r'n'r analogy : ‘ You can either f— for four minutes or sometimes you f— for an hour . ’ |
| 3 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 4 | Identified and sorted into groups representing the types and parts of animals from which they come , a catalogue of the bones is compiled including bone measurement which indicates the size of the animals and even their age at death . |
| 5 | She spun round to face him with blazing blue eyes and then her head fell as the blue became blurred with tears , and pity for herself , for her mother and for the man she scarcely remembered came flooding with the tears that fell down her cheeks . |
| 6 | But he raised his eyes and then his head when the last one stood before him . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the constraints of the ERM themselves proved inflationary as increased borrowing by the Bank of England — in order to fund the intervention buying of sterling — had itself to be supported by the issuing of Treasury bills which increase banks ' reserves and therefore their capacity for further borrowing . |
| 8 | Many of the schemes currently being developed in various parts of the country are using the establishment of a record-of-achievement procedure to engage teachers in a fundamental review of their curricular goals , their teaching methods and hence their assessment criteria , with a view to stimulating a wide-ranging review of school arrangements . |
| 9 | It makes sense in what I said earlier about if you can identify numbers that are very seldom chosen , because when those numbers do come up then you 're one of a small minority of winners and therefore your stake is larger . |
| 10 | Dersingham took a dark-coloured paisley handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his lips and then his nose with it . |
| 11 | As the small child tries to find out about other people 's bodily functions and especially their genitalia , its pleasure in looking is active and eroticised . |
| 12 | Everything affects my senses and thereby my soul ; nothing my mind , and thereby my soul . |
| 13 | She had learned how to protect her emotions and thus her body . |
| 14 | Both can take new consorts but only their daughter can be the new Everqueen . |
| 15 | We consider first the extent of accumulation for bequests and then its division among the next generations ( these decisions may of course be interdependent ) . |
| 16 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 17 | A company representative or agent will only tell you about his own firm 's plans and so his advice will be limited . |
| 18 | The animals were fasted for 24 hours and then their abdomen was opened and the stomach exposed under light ether anaesthesia . |
| 19 | Assuming that each source wishes to minimize its total costs under the emission charges system , each would blend control expenditure ( to reduce its emissions and thus its emission charge liability ) and emission charges ( on those units of pollutants emitted after control ) in the way it finds cheapest . |
| 20 | I would suggest it is too early for the Working Group to take a definitive view -Divisions may have to respond differently , it is not clear that consultancy is the answer , there still is opportunity to influence the size of the new authorities and then their structure and staff . |
| 21 | For 300 years or more our science has omitted any human attributes that may impinge upon or impede its mechanistic working model . |
| 22 | The er not a sore throat th you know , it 's there for a couple of days and then it kind of eases off , I think it 's getting better and then |
| 23 | Silence had fallen for almost three weeks and then her father had written again , with the utmost brevity , to say he would review the situation when he saw it and that they could get away after the harvest . |
| 24 | The grandness of the meal , and how much of it you pay for , depends upon the expectations of yourself and your guests and perhaps their relationship to you . |
| 25 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 26 | Such transactions , by affecting commercial bank clearing balances , alter the liquidity of these banks and hence their willingness to lend to , or withdraw funds from , the discount houses . |
| 27 | The tears dribbled on her face and made bright lines across the greyness of her cheeks and then her head was lost in her hands . |
| 28 | Finally , exegesis of Keynes ' work has concentrated inordinately on the ‘ model ’ of the General Theory , to the exclusion of Keynes ' earlier economic ideas and also his epistemology . |
| 29 | If you can find such a language , then there will be very few alternatives and so your search will probably not go astray . |
| 30 | This is John Fisher , who is remembered for his disputes in his latter years and finally his execution in London by order of Henry VIII . |