Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this trick all you need is a small coin such as a fifty-pence piece or a half dollar . |
| 2 | To allow for this inflation all you have to do is calculate the value of £1 now in so many years time and use this as a correction factor . |
| 3 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 4 | After that day those who looked upon Malekith shuddered , for he was a figure of dread . |
| 5 | Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone . |
| 6 | I tried to explain to her that few elderly people can remain in a state of reforming fervour all their lives ! |
| 7 | Perhaps we , we all have erm thirty three pence each and we give a penny to Oxfam , or we 'll toss up or we 'll , thirty three pence each and one penny left over so we 'll have a third of that penny each we 'll cut it up . |
| 8 | The court may order the husband to convey or transfer his interest in the home to the wife absolutely in the following manner : It is ordered that the Respondent shall transfer to the Petitioner absolutely within 28 days from the date of this Order all his estate and interest in the property 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre [ subject to the existing Mortgage to the Blackacre Building Society , the Petitioner indemnifying the Respondent against all claims in respect thereof ] . |
| 9 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 10 | a series of graded lessons each one consisting of pronunciation and structure ( grammar ) drills and a short conversation . |
| 11 | One of these books that they . |
| 12 | However the ECJ has ruled that equal treatment can not be established without an appropriate system of sanctions and that national courts are required to seek among the provisions of national law those which imply the most effective sanction , such a sanction being the one which guarantees real and effective judicial protection of the wronged worker and has a real deterrent effect on the employer . |
| 13 | She 's a big , long sheep , and if you put a ram on her of equal proportions all you 're doing is stretching the ewe 's progeny through their back . |
| 14 | Protection is given to the malicious and the reckless as the price of protecting from the threat of vexatious litigation all who are under a powerful duty to state facts and opinions frankly . |
| 15 | Dogs , on the other hand , have to put up with a range of 1 dioptre all their lives . |
| 16 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 17 | Some of his anecdotes from his student days were hilariously funny , featuring enough females in them to convince his listener that he 'd been the object of female adulation all his life until very recently . |
| 18 | Raymond Williams in his discussion of country house poems , specifically those of Jonson and Carew , observes a tendency to obscure labour , and to describe as natural bounty that which is obtained by work . |
| 19 | Unlike other dinosaurs this one is a real softy . |
| 20 | You mean that after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand ? ’ |
| 21 | Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ? |
| 22 | He leaned and peered a little , but not from any weakness of the eyes , rather out of a fixed suspicion that caused him to study with narrow attention all who came near him , and especially strangers . |
| 23 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 24 | ‘ You drift into these situations all your life . |
| 25 | They had lowcut dresses and thick black eyeshadow , and one wore no shoes , toes crossed over each other from having her feet crammed into tight footwear all her life . |
| 26 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 27 | He had success at Formula 5000 and when he returned to Formula One it was with better results that his first attempt . |
| 28 | ‘ People live with abominable situations all their lives . |
| 29 | A company pension system which rewarded those who stayed with one firm all their working life with a pension equivalent to two thirds of final salary , ‘ froze ’ the pensions of those who moved jobs . |
| 30 | We all have a responsibility to help those who are married , as well as upholding with sympathetic love those whose marriages have failed . |