Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs .
2 Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status .
3 After that only a matter of confidence .
4 It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately .
5 Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this .
6 It is claimed , however , that only the female of the species is fertilized .
7 It was argued earlier that only the use of higher level knowledge will enable any additional success .
8 Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ?
9 Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 …
10 Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear .
11 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
12 Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ?
13 Is this perhaps a comment on the inadequacy of the law and the difficulty of policing and getting convictions ?
14 Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ?
15 Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us !
16 is this not a recipe for disaster ?
17 Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ?
18 At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ?
19 The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster .
20 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
21 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
22 ‘ Is this just a game for you ?
23 ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards .
24 He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep .
25 Perhaps he thought that a man , or more than one man , was trying to hurt or kill his mother , and perhaps he thought this nearly every night of his life .
26 There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy .
27 Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ?
28 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
29 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
30 Is this really the intention of the UN sanctions and , if so , what is the reasoning of it ?
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