Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ McIniff was blackguard enough to do that but you 'd think that at least he 'd be ashamed to tell it . ’ |
| 2 | HERE ARE two compilations whose existence obviously means more than a desperate milking of the public udders . |
| 3 | It is the community as a an affirmation of the community and to say that we need to have an outsider in to do that because there is not an ordained minister there to me , is a little like the situation in some Anglican Parishes where there 's a woman sitting |
| 4 | Other people can be motivated into activity year-in-year-out just to acquire more and more money . |
| 5 | The predators considered in this chapter generally consume most or all of the bodies of their prey . |
| 6 | But the subsection tantalizingly offers more than it gives . |
| 7 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
| 8 | name name dropping the supporters I mean for to those Tories telling them that the that the association for county councils for example is a backer probably counts more than telling them that that is a backer . |
| 9 | Basic provision of shelter , heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants . |
| 10 | The exterior of the rock consequently expands more than the interior and stresses are set up . |
| 11 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 12 | An adult owl normally knows this and stays in shelter , but inexperienced hunters may not have the sense to come in out of the rain . |
| 13 | The House of Lords can only look more and more an anachronism . |
| 14 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 15 | Lydia felt strongly that the author of the universe probably thought much as she did about sexual matters . |
| 16 | In Italy unskilled migrant workers from the centre and south both suffered most and fought back most tenaciously . |
| 17 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 18 | Distinguished from all other true geese by having its whole face white , with crown , nape and neck black ; rest of plumage mainly grey more or less barred black and white . |
| 19 | By starting with Nicolas de Staël , who was born in Russia and trained in France and Belgium , the Malingue gallery evidently has more than commercial interests in mind . |
| 20 | Any doubt there may be that the family disease is a genuine addictive disease is dispelled when the divorced wife of a primary sufferer promptly marries another or when the parents of young sufferers find themselves depressed and lonely and wondering what to do with their time and experience once their own primary sufferer is in recovery . |
| 21 | It is the prestige of winning this historic race that is important rather than the prize money , as the winner usually receives less than the runner-up . |
| 22 | For much of the century , their daily rate had been fixed by statute , initially in 1721 at 2s or 2s 6d ( 10-12½p ) per day , but they were hardly ever able to find employment constant enough to earn more than 9s ( 45p ) a week , and in their slack months even less . |
| 23 | I wo n't feel ‘ complete ’ until we have at least one more baby — but I dare n't bring up the subject very often as my husband just gets more and more adamant . |
| 24 | It requires organisation and planning , as one group usually follows another and for the changeover to be smooth all departments must be working to maximum efficiency . |
| 25 | A Tory conference probably has more than its due share of savers . |
| 26 | Judge Galpin understandably read this as meaning expressio unius exclusio alterius . |
| 27 | However , working class wives living on the new housing estates of the inter-war period often had little but housework to occupy their days and , like many suburban middle class wives , tended to lead extremely isolated lives . |
| 28 | Al-Shara asserted that " the world public opinion now realizes more than ever before , especially in the aftermath of the Gulf crisis , that double standards are no longer acceptable in this age ; that the principles of international law , not the law of the jungle , must be repected " . |
| 29 | Secondly , the marketers of such a financial product often need more than the lifestyle information can provide on its own . |
| 30 | Mr Lang replied : ‘ I deeply sympathise with Mrs Byers , whose late husband unfortunately died less than a month before the bill was introduced , but hope that she will appreciate that wherever the cut-off point is set , someone will fall just outside it . ’ |