Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 2 | Erm I think they , I think they do that during the day and then in the evening it 's on for anybody else who wants to see that take-off on cheeses . |
| 3 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 4 | To take an example , the observation that shareholders are on the whole behaving passively is consistent with the view that they know little about the firm and consequently leave everything to the manager . |
| 5 | Of course , the motivation for playing this game is all the stronger when we have reason to resent the ‘ out group ’ for being more powerful or better resourced than we are , or not subject to the strains , pressures and tensions we face ( of course , because they are an ‘ out group ’ we know little about the problems that they have and we do not ) . |
| 6 | Many people know very little about the benefits that can be claimed by the elderly and those who are looking after them , or the free services to which they are entitled , so they often fail to claim something that is their right . |
| 7 | It gave the producers the chance to create some enticingly colourful kaleidoscopes , largely by Lazlo Kovaks ' cinematographic wizardry ; otherwise there was little about the film that either Nicholson , Dern or Strasberg would admit to being proud of . |
| 8 | Labelling theory has revealed something of the genesis of individual theories of the self in society , but we know little about the mechanisms and occasions of large-scale learning of such things . |
| 9 | However , they have said very little about the membership or the nature of political argument within the Britons or the IFL , and almost nothing on the most important of the extreme anti-semitic organizations , the NL , and its guiding spirit , Archibald H. Maule Ramsay MP . |
| 10 | Although Wilson was undoubtedly sympathetic to the WEA he left East Suffolk on appointment as Secretary for Education in Shropshire and was succeeded by Leslie Missen who , at that time , knew little about the WEA and the discussions with the LEA had to be framed within a longer time-scale than Jacques had originally planned . |
| 11 | Comparative Neurobiology by Peter Mill has a lot about standard muscle and nerve physiology , nothing about development and too little about the status and functioning of the invertebrate nervous system . |
| 12 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 13 | After so many years , there was little about the game that he did not know , and tactically he was a highly skilled operator who , his players knew , would stay calm in a crisis . |
| 14 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 15 | Perhaps God in his wisdom has told us only a little about the nature and personhood of Satan so that we are not tempted to dwell on him with morbid fascination . |
| 16 | The Greeks did very little during the winter because of bad weather but each spring they were back on the water , checking that everything was nautika or boatworthy . |
| 17 | I would like with your agreement Jim t to take that off the agenda and for you Dennis and I to discuss that out of this meeting |
| 18 | ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields . |
| 19 | It sleeps eight comfortably , and rents for between £352 and £489 each for a week if eight share , including hire of one car and flights , or £449 to £699 each if four take it . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association , which is meeting the legal costs of the nuns ' case , was ‘ pleased and surprised ’ with the ruling that the nuns should be paid the full market price of £1.42 each for the birds if they were slaughtered . |
| 21 | Babies used to be given one tag each for the arm and ankle . |
| 22 | Is that about the bloke that used to go out with Joan Collins ? ’ |
| 23 | Do n't do the i y , e one , because we 'll take that as a spelling and grammatical change . |
| 24 | The whole story is not yet known , although it 's claimed that North Korea er invaded South Korea er I sh I should take that as a hypothesis and not as a fact . |
| 25 | Can individuals and the community serve without spiritual values What about that as a starter before we look at the other questions , then . |
| 26 | He 'd always thought of that as a cliché before he met Emily . |
| 27 | Would they take that as a lesson and conform to the party 's expectations of educated youth ? |
| 28 | Campese dismissed the matter , but when he chose to put less confidence in the cover on the field and deliberately knocked down Peter Winterbottom 's pass , Bevan should have taken that as an admission that the so-far impregnable ‘ Gold Wall ’ was about to be breached . |
| 29 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 30 | I took that as an indication that I could play him every match . |