Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s . |
| 2 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 3 | He walked right through the ghosts and through the entrance they had opened . |
| 4 | Back at the river , walk down the track , turning right through the trees and follow the Tweed to St Boswells . |
| 5 | I mean it 's mostly for the kids or if , w when we 're travelling in the car anywhere . |
| 6 | SUPERCHUNK — On The Mouth ( City Slang ) : Superchunk check in somewhere between the Pixies and the Buzzcocks with a bit of grunge topping . |
| 7 | Somewhere between the Mongols and the present day the lands to the north of the Black Sea acquired the name Ukraina , which means ‘ at the border ’ . |
| 8 | He clambered aboard the coach , the juniors raised a brief , cheeky cheer , half mocking and half friendly , the driver hoisted himself imperturbably into his cab , and the coach started up and surged ponderously through the gates and away along the Silcaster road . |
| 9 | Charles did a great deal to assist the lot of the Lombardian peasantry whose lives had fared badly during the conflicts that succeeded the Renaissance . |
| 10 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 11 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 12 | Some teenage mothers complain bitterly about the attitudes and treatment they receive in antenatal clinics and classes and in hospital , which are sometimes patronising and even rude . |
| 13 | I think now of the way the shaggy but emaciated-looking , dull-eyed sheep who wander so wearily about the paths and tracks of the Forest of Dean find their way into the brick bus shelters on nights such as this . |
| 14 | Some of the Naval survey parties may also have landed briefly on Krakatoa , because a hot spring is marked on some maps , but apart from this we know remarkably little about the islands or their volcanic history . |
| 15 | He remembered little about the fires because he was under the influence of drink and did not realise what he was doing . |
| 16 | Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village . |
| 17 | Then , still without speaking , Mr Dakin moved unhurriedly between the cows and a faint chink of metal sounded as he fastened the chain around Blossom 's neck . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The way in which things are made has changed slowly through the millennia and much more rapidly during the last two centuries . |
| 20 | You 're almost sure to be right about the spells and enchantments . |
| 21 | Perhaps there was something not quite right about the files and the ledgers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel . |
| 26 | Eventually things got cool enough for the protons and neutrons to fuse and form atomic nuclei ; later still it was possible for electrons to cling to the nuclei , thus creating atoms . |
| 27 | They do n't have to worry too much about the eventualities and all the other sins that the planning process is concerned with . |
| 28 | Kathy Page makes us think afresh about the lies that bind and the barriers that separate . |
| 29 | But it is not only through the sacraments that the Spirit assures us we belong to Christ . |
| 30 | Thérèse became known to Soeur Dosithée only through the letters that Antoinette wrote about her . |