Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1919 , great armies of faceless conifers have stamped their way across the highlands and the lowlands , Sitka spruce now covers half a million hectares and makes up 52 per cent of conifers planted by the Forestry Commission in Scotland and Wales . |
| 2 | C.N.L. have , theoretically , one other alternative : they could at this late stage , without benefit of the P.C.A. documents , mount their own unaided inquiry into the police officers ' conduct and thus seek independently to obtain all the same evidence that the P.C.A. so painstakingly uncovered some three years ago . |
| 3 | There are many other examples of Dickens ' excellent style of writing in the novel , which add together to make this a perfect piece of writing of a rare quality . |
| 4 | Germany and Italy , to some extent , tend also to find such an approach useful . |
| 5 | Who 's still talking ? sit there talking all the way through erm |
| 6 | The sharp combination of savage and city along with ritual and music-hall elements do much to make this the most powerful of Eliot 's comedies . |
| 7 | Grey langurs seem to have a particular aversion to leopards and call loudly to warn all the other inhabitants of the jungle , including the deer , that a leopard is on the prowl . |
| 8 | Are you aware of how both your employers and even you individually are at significant financial risk if you fail fully to appreciate all the Intellectual Property angles involved in : — |
| 9 | I do not disregard the possibility that some rituals in some societies do indeed perform such a function , but this interpretation would be meaningful only if the members of those societies could be shown in their various ideas and practices — in particular those concerning personhood — to endorse such an interpretation . |
| 10 | Jot down on paper answers which you think adequately cover all the points . |
| 11 | ‘ I think , my dear Shiona , you 've rather got that the wrong way round . |
| 12 | Yes , we 've all seen all the reports — distributed open systems end up costing downsizers more money than the mainframe ever did , that there are many applications that can be handled only by the mainframe , that the mainframe has a bright future if only IBM Corp can get over its present problems . |
| 13 | I 've only done this a little while . |
| 14 | ‘ We think it 's pretty special ourselves — the land of beech trees , storks and marguerites — and you 've only seen such a small part of it . |
| 15 | We 've only got half a side and we need you . |
| 16 | You 've only got half a mug of coffee . |
| 17 | When life is hectic and you 've only got half an hour in the evening to snatch a meal , a heartwarming bowl of Campbell 's condensed soup with some crusty bread makes an ideal supper . |
| 18 | Then I 've only got half an hour and I wan na go through my tap . |
| 19 | well I do n't know , I suppose they sort of well , they the same time paint work and they go thundering down the corridor and go charging in there and , oh back at training on there you know come on , come on we 've only got half an hour |
| 20 | They 've fucking given half the game up ! |
| 21 | ‘ I 've just seen half a dozen . |
| 22 | We 're just about to leave Sian by air for Nanking , and we 've just heard that a bevy of Brit . |
| 23 | no , they 've just cut all the hours down and one thing and another , it 's a pain in the bum |
| 24 | Oh yes indeed I 've just taken all the dividers out |
| 25 | ‘ Besides which , my dear Shiona , I 've waited long enough for you , and I 've just come all the way from Loch Lomond to propose to you . |
| 26 | We 've just had half an hour in Jubilee park , extremely brisk walk , I feel ext jolly toasty now . |
| 27 | they 've just changed all the if there 's any names on there like , they want use it , |
| 28 | I 've just got all the apples into the cart , and it looks as if Anna has upset the lot . ’ |
| 29 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 30 | I 've just got all the rain off , and now we 're coming out again ! |