Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 2 | A large carthorse stood drowsily eating something in the grass . |
| 3 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 4 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 5 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 6 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 7 | For these not only reveal something about the nature of criminal law and hence crime itself , but also how corporations are able to channel some of their resources into a concerted attempt to prevent their socially injurious behaviours from being criminalized . |
| 8 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 9 | This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system . |
| 10 | Maureen , who was now the manageress of the wool shop , had warned them that wool might be in short supply so they had all bought plenty of every colour , including a lot of khaki . |
| 11 | The grieving widow was rich and powerful enough to hound anyone through the courts . |
| 12 | The feeble nature of the weak force and the short interaction distance together imply something about the nature of the particle exchange : it must be relatively heavy . |
| 13 | An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority . |
| 14 | So design one on the same scale as the backcloth . |
| 15 | It only takes one at a time . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |
| 17 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
| 18 | My mother obviously found something in the house . |
| 19 | I had better take one from a Conservative Member now . |
| 20 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 21 | Only keep one at a time , as the adults will fight unless kept in very large tanks . |
| 22 | So try one with the Xs in now . |
| 23 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 24 | In the course of getting to know the right conditions for plants to survive well , in addition to looking their best in the overall scheme of the garden , Tricia — internationally known as an interior designer — has naturally become something of a plantswoman . |
| 25 | The rejection of the ruling mode of dealing with the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power ( through market constraints or the internal structure of the company ) does not necessarily lead one into an inconclusive political debate about the merits of the capitalist system . |
| 26 | He ca n't pay the television licence and tosses up every week between washing powder , toothpaste or soap : " I can only afford one at a time — personal hygiene is an expensive item . " |
| 27 | But long enough to learn something about the man . |
| 28 | Darwin introduced new lines of evidence , but these were not enough to convince everyone of the superiority of his particular explanation , and the general idea of evolution succeeded because it could be exploited by powerful interest groups acting within science . |
| 29 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 30 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |