Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after years of marriage an ex-wife will get no benefit from this if her former husband dies . |
| 2 | I could n't understand why he did this because his rebellious hair always sprang up like bristles on a brush and never stayed flat like Dad 's . |
| 3 | Our original intention in enacting regulation 72 was to facilitate the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases of clear official — I hope that the hon. Member for Oldham , West will listen to this because his total distortion of the case — |
| 4 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 5 | Believe me , I have thought a lot about this since your last visit . |
| 6 | With this as its inspirational text , monasticism spread through the Middle East and into Europe . |
| 7 | Judges themselves claim this as their great virtue and only occasionally is it seen to be departed from . |
| 8 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 9 | Four University , four College , and three Polytechnic courses in this category were described , involving 26 staff , only three of whom were not doing this as their main concern , and all of whom had appropriate degree qualifications . |
| 10 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 11 | I always teach new knitters to do this when they first start on lace , then they use the extension rails automatically and the problem will not arise . |
| 12 | All this when her only motivation was to go the extra mile under all circumstances . |
| 13 | Alice thought it would be easier to phone someone like that than her own mother if you had done what she had done , but she could be wrong there . |
| 14 | Er well that does n't matter I do n't mind that quite so much cos our bearded collie loves water . |
| 15 | How much the cost estimates are padded or pared and how much profit is built in will reflect the company trading position as much as its technical ability . |
| 16 | She was paid as much as her male colleagues , and earned every penny . |
| 17 | Whereas in the 1780s she produced twice as much as her closest competitor , Great Britain , by the end of the Crimean War she had been overtaken by Belgium , France was exceeding her output threefold , and Britain no less than fourteenfold . |
| 18 | To be successful , future education for headship will need to pay greater attention to the prime importance of the development and growth of heads as persons ; it must therefore embrace consideration of their values and assumptions , their feelings and their intentions , and their relationships with others as much as their professional knowledge and teaching skills . |
| 19 | For the common people , as much as their political representatives , it was also the ultimate affirmation of the rightness of the American way , of the moral ascendancy of the United States . |
| 20 | Newspapers are peculiar products in as much as their first copy costs — the cost of producing the issue irrespective of the size of the print run — are so high . |
| 21 | They 're part of a European team working on a nuclear fusion project , but claim they 're paid only half as much as their continental colleagues . |
| 22 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 23 | Members appeared to value their role as representatives of the community at large , just as much as their narrower role as parent or staff representative , or as a co-opted member serving a limited group of interests . |
| 24 | It is this as much as their stubborn stupidity and iron-hard muscle which makes Trolls very hard to fight . |
| 25 | If the Spanish youngsters enjoy the adventure playground as much as their English counterparts , there should be no problem . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't let anyone ever tell you that fat folk do n't feel the cold just as much as you skinny ones . |
| 27 | I HAVE APPRECIATED Matthew Fort 's delicious much-more-than-food columns in past issues , but none as much as his informative piece on oysters ( ‘ Dinners with Walruses ’ , The Seasoned Cook ) . |
| 28 | Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given . |
| 29 | In the E flat Sonata I enjoyed his cajoling lyrical charm in the opening movement and the Menuetto as much as his pin-point clarity in the Scherzo and his mounting flames in the finale . |
| 30 | One of the priests of Holy Trinity , Coventry , owned goods valued at no less than £100 , nearly three times as much as his eleven colleagues put together ; he was also vicar of Priors Hardwick . |