Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [be] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 2 | Do you know that 's only wall that bit is only wall . |
| 3 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 4 | That college is so shit , what did you just call it , Whackney college ? |
| 5 | They are perhaps the most obvious form of deviance , in that crime is clearly behaviour which breaks the standards of society and which can result in some punishment . |
| 6 | Erm the Conservative thirty three million and the Policy Committee is that Labour was actually sort of lowest . |
| 7 | This is important to those involved with it , for whom that engagement is only part of a continuing career pattern . |
| 8 | ‘ This case is never calfskin . |
| 9 | As in the human , this action is both dose and enantiomer specific . |
| 10 | Shelley gazed as he sang , wondering if Dr Rafaelo had been right in saying that this act was only showmanship , with no genuine feeling or emotion in it . |
| 11 | Inasmuch as the appellant is not able to establish the necessary twelve years adverse possession , a decision on this question is strictly obiter , but as the judge has dealt with the point and counsel have argued it before us I will not conclude without making some reference to it . |
| 12 | ‘ This chat is purely business then , ma'am ? ’ |
| 13 | Gradually , it became apparent that this lady was definitely part of David 's life . |
| 14 | ‘ Made of birchwood they were — this wood 's mostly oak and birch giving way to conifers as we come out , with a view of the foothills . ’ |
| 15 | This module is either Source or Foreign . |
| 16 | The principal theme of this novel is again decomposition in all its aspects , so the formal disintegration of the text mirrors the dispersal of Georges 's subjectivity . |
| 17 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 18 | The leading authority on this subject is now Reg. v. Civil Service Appeal Board , Ex parte Cunningham [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 19 | This pony is roughly 9hh–10hh which is very small . |
| 20 | My prototype reminds me too much of a kingsize white plastic bucket , and I suspect that a combination of this summer 's largely ozone layer-free sun and a winter frost or two might render it brittle . |
| 21 | However , there is plenty of very interesting material in this volume and , while this book is only part of the process , one could certainly agree that the field of rhetoric has been reborn . |
| 22 | So what you 're doing for prep this weekend is very exam . |
| 23 | Along with most other docs , I used to believe that this fluid was always urine — and that the ladies were being slightly incontinent under the wholly understandable stress of ‘ coming ’ . |
| 24 | And this restriction is ultimately anathema to an institution of higher education , which must be founded on a continuing conversation about its ends and its values , and their fulfilment through its internal human transactions . |
| 25 | Like section 6 , this section is only part of a wider principle of common law . |
| 26 | But such innocence is only part of the story . |
| 27 | The main reason why women took up such work was undoubtedly poverty , resulting chiefly from either the low wages , sickness , unemployment or absence of the male breadwinner . |
| 28 | Such conduct is now conversion by statute but this is merely for the draftsman 's terminological convenience and has no effect on the concept of conversion at common law : for this reason , it must be kept separate in our analysis . |
| 29 | Now I 'm interested in you saying that chemistry is really physics . |
| 30 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |