Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THEIR most rudimentary state the returns which form the basis of this study amount to nothing more exciting than parallel columns of names and sums of money flanked , in the musters , by notes of military particulars . |
| 2 | For the most detailed analysis the meshes are arranged at the closest possible intervals , but greater spacings by size may be used if less detail is required . |
| 3 | Mark you it 's a very bad thing if Federation or branch officials merely rubber stamp the efforts of an enterprising TO . |
| 4 | From extremely limited possession the Scots bravely threw everything into attack in the last 20 minutes and were rewarded with two tries from Lineen and Sole . |
| 5 | Dr Neil , with many a joke , helped them , made change , and once went out to return with lemonade and glasses for all the ladies who were so busy manning the stalls , Mr Sands helping him — the rector being a vague benevolent figure who came in and blinked at them all , said , ‘ I am sure , ladies , that you will all gain treasure in heaven for your noble work here today , ’ and went out again . |
| 6 | In a highly competitive market the returns would be a satisfactory performance measure ; for a monopolist it might merely reflect that any inefficiencies in service have been passed on to the customers who have no choice but to pay the higher prices . |
| 7 | The most crucial role the legs and hips play comes during the backswing . |
| 8 | The dances , oh they were just great fun the dances . |
| 9 | They say the most likely way the keys were smuggled out was by a prison warder rather than an inmate to a visitor . |
| 10 | The more high technology the Russians acquire the greater are the production difficulties and delivery backlogs . |
| 11 | He said that , in 1847 , Parliament ’ trusted the broad generous instincts of common sense ; they drew a good , bold line ; and we to-day enjoy a more gentle , more humane , more skilful , more sober , and more civilised population the blessings of which have followed their acts . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 13 | In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all . |
| 14 | If the bullet had taken a slightly different path the results would have been catastrophic , ’ said Mr Watson of Homerton Hospital . |
| 15 | Many readers of our most respected newspaper The Times could not have disagreed more . |
| 16 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 17 | Finely milled soap the lathers instantly in the shower . |
| 18 | you know , but I mean at the moment I keep , he 's coming home some nights and , you know it like , he 'll come home and say I had a really good morning the kids were great , but as for the afternoon , and like he said when you 're teaching you 're only as good as your last lesson , you know |
| 19 | A spokesman for Littlewoods says : ‘ They were perfectly happy modelling the clothes , but that 's what you would expect from these highly professional girls — they are adaptable . ’ |
| 20 | Boots ' progress was accompanied by a variety of stories as in often busy trading the shares gained 9p to 294p . |
| 21 | Then he gaped as Bower-bird flutter the wings that should have been useless , and sprang into the air in a perfect take-off . |
| 22 | In recognition of this surely unrepeatable feat the Stewards allowed Ashley House to join his four stable companions in the unsaddling enclosure , and he it was who first received the attentions of his trainer . |
| 23 | Now thirdly the Vietnam war , now this was perhaps the most harrowing war the Americans ever got themselves involved in and has had deep and permanent effects upon American policy making to this very day . |
| 24 | Now thirdly the Vietnam war , now this was perhaps the most harrowing war the Americans ever got themselves involved in and has had deep and permanent effects upon American policy making to this very day . |
| 25 | The almost inherent suspicion the police have of strangers was in the RUC 's case added to by worries about whether their personal security would be compromised and concern over the intentions of the police management . |
| 26 | Its cohesion stemmed entirely from the almost feudal loyalty the troops accorded the Emperor . |
| 27 | I feel quite safe walking the streets here in the evenings . |
| 28 | The statute of Gloucester in 1278 with its fifteen chapters mainly concerned with land law ; of Acton Burnell in 1283 resolving some aspects of credit ; of Wales in 1284 extending to the newly conquered territory the advantages of English common law ; the statute of Merchants in 1285 drastically revising the statute of Acton Burnell ; the statute of Winchester in 1285 which was concerned to protect society from robbery and violence ; the statutes of Quo Warranto and Quia Emptores in 1290 which respectively clarified a resented enquiry and terminated subinfeudation : all these constitute a staggering corpus of law-making in a matter of fifteen years . |
| 29 | While education was the single most significant activity the employers of Advanced Course students engaged in , when it came to job titles and the nature of the jobs the students were or would be doing , educational occupations were not dominant in the same way . |
| 30 | The purpose in setting side by side the careers of Hocazade and Civizade is simply to compare in a very broad way the careers of two not unrepresentative scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively in order to show the degree to which the hierarchy had developed during this period ; and what one may fairly infer from the comparison is limited . |