Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People buying shares in British Telecommunications Plc will be able to deal in shares by punching the keys on a normal push-button telephone : the retail investment company ShareLink Ltd said the service , the first such scheme in Europe , is being offered as part of the marketing campaign for BT3 , the UK government 's sale of a third tranche of British Telecom shares , marketing of which began yesterday ; the system will later be extended to cover other shares ; the government 's remaining shares are to be sold in July ; pricing and details of whether all the remaining 21.8% stake will be sold are due in June . |
| 2 | And then plenty of straw and everything and put the old vixen in and the cubs and some food for and then the old erm the old er erm what did they used to call it ? |
| 3 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 4 | It is as if somehow the puritanical , work-obsessed British associated the idea of ‘ pleasure ’ with the saucy , sinful Continent . |
| 5 | Here , it is as if both the single and the plural accounts of human nature were specious . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's as if only the last few hours of my life were real . |
| 7 | There were shouts and sniping all the way way through and even the odd cry of ‘ pull the other one . ’ |
| 8 | He had left behind as well the massive structures of farms and sheepfolds , with their strange irregular shapes , their gigantic mossy roofs , and little low walls . |
| 9 | Thunder exploded , roll after roll after roll , so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment . |
| 10 | I 'm also looking forward to seeing a copy of the election manifesto on which he fights those elections and er er how it will be possible for the Conservative party to er put forward a manifesto that he is comfortable with and also a manifest that the honourable member for say Old Bexley and Sidcup is similarly comfortable with but er no doubt that 's a matter for the Conservative party . |
| 11 | You have Cards 1 , 2 and 3 to start with and quite a few variations on those cards are possible , from arranging different numbers of zig-zag changes between the holes to trying out different yarns and stripes . |
| 12 | Because it 's been that long keeping an eye on them that they could be supplying half the business on our time with and then a hundred per cent the rest of the time . |
| 13 | But this usually means the power amp is hardly ticking over in and so the resulting distortion is rarely fully representative of what the amp can do at full throttle . |
| 14 | Poland , for instance , unlike Russia , was a participant in and indeed an important contributor to the great movements in early modern European history , such as the Renaissance and the scientific revolution , and the country 's legal system , literary forms and religious faith aligned it firmly with the liberal West rather than the more authoritarian East . |
| 15 | These authors postulate that in as yet an unexplained way it is the accumulation of these lipid-laden foam cells in the sub-endothelium that damage the endothelium , thus allowing the subsequent developments in the formation of the atheromatous plaque to proceed . |
| 16 | It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy . |
| 17 | There 's more going on than just the Cretaceous collapse . |
| 18 | This motion is about recognizing what they 're up to and also the valuable service offered to stewards and members through our regional and national education courses . |
| 19 | But he made himself walk to and fro a hundred times , slowly at first , then more briskly , to keep up some sense of health . |
| 20 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 21 | We thus have an apparent paradox : a modern stock-exchange law without a stock exchange , but an established banking system without as yet a modern banking law . |
| 22 | Erm the cost of capital costs of of signing er will also be looked at and then a further report from the subcommittee to the council . |
| 23 | It is hardly surprising that he can not find the people he is looking for when even the largest organisations have so few senior women . |