Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered little about the fires because he was under the influence of drink and did not realise what he was doing . |
| 2 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |
| 3 | In a sense the music existed rather for the participants than the hearers ; thus they wished only to be helped , or nudged , not commanded , when in danger of error . |
| 4 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 5 | Life was fraught enough for the Stevenses as it was , with the constant care of Jennifer , without her adding to their problems , and besides , she had come to value her privacy and her independence . |
| 6 | Finally , if he was prepared to visit Sanders to make the appointment , why not do so for the lessons as well ? ’ |
| 7 | Let us now place an infinite conductor plane halfway between the charges as shown in Fig. 2.32 . |
| 8 | Why must I struggle constantly against the odds when others find it so easy ? |
| 9 | But he was very happy to be so near the hills because he loved them . |
| 10 | ‘ I find I can blend in better with the locals if I understand their language . |
| 11 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 12 | The level of demand is to do not only with the tasks as they are done but also with the duration for which they must continue to be done . |
| 13 | I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field . |
| 14 | As the crow flies , or rather those rooks in A. K. Savrasov 's famous painting , the distance south-east from Smolensk to Kursk is 480 km. , which is a fraction more than the distance due north from Kursk to Moscow , and 80 km. deeper into the provinces than Smolensk from the capital . |
| 15 | So with the chips as well this is about one sixty . |
| 16 | It all began because my friend Pat was called by the Lord to work as a nurse in Saudi , and her experiences there gave me an interest in that country and especially in the Women as they seem to have such a hard life . |
| 17 | The latest developments , which are part of the transition from a state welfare model to that of a mixed economy , are likely to attract a similarly modest level of investment in monitoring and evaluation , and as a consequence we will certainly learn a great deal less from the reforms than might otherwise be the case . |
| 18 | Arrangements were also made for two firemen to take it in turns to sleep on the premises and instructions were given to these men to go all round the shops after the Works are closed and ‘ inspect every hole and corner to see if there is any sign of fire and afterwards to sleep on the premises so as to be ready in case of accident ’ . |
| 19 | It 's all round the buildings as it was then , you know houses all ba all built , all just in see where me mother lives , it was like there were three bedrooms and erm and a back room and a front room , and a basement room , so that you could . |
| 20 | Position the plant in the centre of the pot so that its crown is about 2 cm ( 1 in ) below the pot rim ( 1 cm/½ in if the compost is soilless ) , spread the roots out if they do not already form a compact ball with the soil and , holding the plant with one hand , fill in compost with the other all round the roots until the pot is full . |
| 21 | And y am I right , am I right in saying that you 'd say that e even though it may exist in itself , that it may even be , in fact be less in the flats than it is in the , in the wi in that in the wider area ? |
| 22 | ‘ those who are generally felt to be of high status locate science less in the journals than in their own and other peoples ’ heads ’ . |
| 23 | Directive 72/160 which has been used , particularly by France , to encourage the reallocation and rationalisation of agricultural land ( though less in the LFAs than elsewhere ) is to be abandoned , seemingly because it has had limited impact . |
| 24 | Somehow , they brought out in Gran a likeness to Jake and Adam , less in the features than in the look of the eyes , wide and clear like a passionate girl 's . |
| 25 | Summer skiing : On the Kitzsteinhorn glacier , reached by cable cars and a funicular , it is possible to enjoy some good quality skiing , but only in the mornings as the snow becomes too soft in the afternoons . |
| 26 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 27 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 28 | Glynn 's prints must be all over the premises so there should be no problem . ’ |
| 29 | So you got to remem , you got to think of colour texture you can write all over the sheets if you want to . |
| 30 | But the main deterrent is that in much of Russia and Ukraine the bureaucrats , Servicemen and scientists who rode roughshod over the locals while living ‘ abroad ’ can not find homes or jobs . |