Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extensively renovated in 1986 , it remains a Leith landmark and the last remaining example of a windmill tower in this area , other than a number of ‘ doocots ’ still dotted around the Lothians and barely recognisable as windmill towers of the past . |
| 2 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 3 | These are still not the very highest of the Pyrenees but sufficiently massive and compacted to make a truly mountainous backdrop . |
| 4 | The recent debate about whether Spenser is typical of ‘ New English ’ perspectives on Ireland or more extreme than most is not particularly the point . |
| 5 | Cockroaches and dragonflies appeared in the Upper Carboniferous ( 300 m years ago ) , at the same time as the giant clubmosses , ferns and seed ferns ; beetles are known from the Permian , and flies and wasps from the end of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous when the angiosperms were diverging from their seed-fern ancestors . |
| 6 | Also in the 1880s , Europe was divided into states of vastly varying sizes , as small as Montenegro and as large as Russia , but eighty per cent of Europe 's total population was to be found in six countries — Russia , Germany , Austria-Hungary , France , Italy and Britain . |
| 7 | The very existence of the catholic state in all but name , the realization , if only in part , of the territory of Ireland as both catholic and nationalist , had a significant and continuing impact on both the clergy 's practical theology and the laity 's day-to-day perceptions of social reality . |
| 8 | This one-off music , dance and art extravaganza took place in the Briggait , one of Glasgow 's lesser-used venues — larger than Tramway and as cold as the Harland & Wolff shipyard . |
| 9 | I 'm glad the class was all right on 11 March and especially pleased that things are better for you and Bob ; also that there was such good news of your daughter . |
| 10 | There is no indication that Athens , Sparta , Thebes or even Miletus and Ephesus were consciously connected with the name Yavan . |
| 11 | Bicker led , and after him came Ratagan and Riven , Isay and Luib , then Tagan and Rimir and finally Darmid and Corrary leading the pack mules . |
| 12 | There is a statement that asks and directs the County Council to take account of the need to r revitalize West Yorkshire and as far as we can see that has n't been done . |
| 13 | Jacobs described Jackson as clearly anti-American and anxious to find ‘ dirt ’ on the military government . |
| 14 | Ion Pacepa , Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence officer who defected in 1978 , takes particular pleasure in his memoirs in exposing Stefan Andrei as both corrupt but also as well aware of the absurdity of the Ceauşescus ' pretensions , especially Elena 's academic titles . |
| 15 | The argument of the theist concerning God as both transcendent and immanent can be summarised in the following question and answer form : |
| 16 | We have also suggested that they all conceive of God as both transcendent and immanent — transcendent in the sense that what fundamentally limits reality does not apply to Him , immanent in that this lack of limitation is what makes possible a universal presence . |
| 17 | Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) . |
| 18 | I have a Crown Court appearance in Birmingham and as far as I 'm aware my solicitors have been in contact with the prosecution in this part of the country to explain the procedure and as far as I 'm aware the committal this morning was to be committed to Birmingham Crown Court with other offenses . |
| 19 | I have a Crown Court appearance in Birmingham and as far as I 'm aware my solicitors have been in contact with the prosecution in this part of the country to explain the procedure and as far as I 'm aware the committal this morning was to be committed to Birmingham Crown Court with other offences . |
| 20 | The Communists and some within the Socialist League and the ILP asserted the need for defending small nations against fascism and aggression , by sanctions and force if necessary , while others condemned Abyssinia and Italy as equally reactionary and unworthy of support . |
| 21 | As I walked out of the ward and round the red screen I felt as old as Humber and as worried as she was about my not yet having been fully trained . |
| 22 | When Moroccan nationalism in the mid-1950s ended Tangier 's brief prominence as an international financial centre , the Reichmanns moved to Toronto — having rejected New York as too frenzied and noisy . |
| 23 | Thus the strike was portrayed by Scargill as both industrial and political , as a means of destroying Thatcherism as well as advancing the miners ' job interests . |
| 24 | Charles perhaps still more than his father regarded St Denis as both personal and dynastic patron ; and though the earliest evidence of this comes from the early years of his own reign , it was surely rooted in childhood habits . |
| 25 | He regarded Porkkala as strategically redundant and politically burdensome . |
| 26 | Canetti is not , I think , earnestly recording his life ; his passion is really for the others he writes about , be they as famous as Brecht or as obscure as his landlady . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't care if she 's as beautiful as Titania and as charming as Cordelia ; she 's still another man 's wife . |
| 28 | Robyn enquired with as much derisive sarcasm as she could muster , deliberately blocking out the memory of how wonderful it had felt with Luke and how sordid and somehow dirty it had felt when Callum had touched her . |
| 29 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 30 | Placing undivided responsibility for a site on an individual is regarded by Lindsell as very effective and beneficial . |