Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 2 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 3 | When Henry Fielding introduces the word ‘ pages ’ into his stage coach metaphor ( 'As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages ' ) he reminds his audience that they are reading a book . |
| 4 | Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I deserved better after so many years of service , ’ he said . |
| 6 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 7 | These are : ( a ) the originating application together with as many copies as there are respondents ; and ( b ) a request for the issue of the originating application ( though see under " Preparation of documents " above ) . |
| 8 | These are : ( a ) a request for entry of appeal ( N209 ) stating the names and addresses of persons intended to be served ( the respondents ) and the appellant 's address for service , together with as many copies as there are respondents ; ( b ) a copy of the order , decision or award appealed against ; ( c ) where the enactment under which the appeal lies requires the appellant to give to the other parties notice in writing of his intention to appeal and of the grounds of his appeal , a copy of such notice ; in any other case the request for entry of appeal must include the grounds of the appeal ; ( 3 ) payment of fees for issue and for service by bailiff if appropriate ( see Table of Fees ) ; ( 4 ) a self-addressed envelope if issued by post . |
| 9 | Its unacceptability would be shared by a great number of people , except that it is a levelling process restricted to a single aspect of human life , whereas the advantages of wealth can operate effectively and valuably in so many others . |
| 10 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 11 | North , at the public hearings , denied that he ran a war from his desk , but he told his aide Craig Coy that he was doing so in so many words . |
| 12 | As we have noted , only in comparatively few nations was the tradition of a vigorous opposition press established prior to independence . |
| 13 | You round up as many others — nurses , patients , whatever — as possible and get them together in as few rooms as you can . |
| 14 | Rolling on to her back , she stared unhappily at too many clouds that raced each other across the low sky . |
| 15 | Street lighting seeped into the tiny landing from an open door so at least some curtains were undrawn and he dare n't use the torch . |
| 16 | So at least some speakers fail to adapt these lexical items successfully to their JC form . |
| 17 | So at low enough temperatures , with the gate voltage , Vg , chosen to put EF in a mobility gap , all the current is in effect carried by electrons that can not be dissipatively scattered , and the resistance falls to zero . |
| 18 | Beneath her curled fist she could feel his heart pounding , feel the heavy rhythm of his life ticking away in so many years , so many days , so many hours . |
| 19 | He has shied away from too many tournaments and has escaped the pressures of London , including his 10-month-old daughter Kiveli to spend long periods with Grandmaster Lubosh Kavalek , his trainer , in Virginia . |
| 20 | Hot-wire ( and hot-film ) anemometers operate best in just those conditions where Pitot tubes fail . |
| 21 | Harlequin captain Winterbottom was on the ball when he said that the cup suited them best in so many ways . |
| 22 | I do not want matriarchy to replace patriarchy as an interim measure because I retain unshakeable faith in women 's ability to organize , to be caring and to be , just in so many ways , superior to men . |
| 23 | At last a man with silvery smiling eyes in a brown face introduced himself as Luiz Santana , husband of Clem 's twin , Charity , and took Leonora into the dining-room when Clem was called away to great more arrivals . |
| 24 | On a sunny afternoon , most people prefer to use the outdoor pool so that if you want some serious exercise you can swim indoors without too many hazards . |
| 25 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 26 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 27 | It was always like this these days — two colleagues who respected each other but did n't really have much to say . |
| 28 | She 'd come in to see me when she was dressed — always with so many jewels . |
| 29 | It may well be that the rate will slip further with so many children failing to receive regular schooling . |
| 30 | He had read widely and deeply in so many subjects ! ’ |