Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 3 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 4 | In there I have to be courteous but I 'll never forget that you and that bloody rogue of a servant were the last to see my clerk alive ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do you have to wear that bloody garment in the house ? |
| 6 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 7 | ‘ Gallagher made Luke confess in front of about twenty witnesses — that bloody rabble from the pub and the cottages . ’ |
| 8 | At first sight it is absurd to propose that Islamic socialization of the economy required the nihil obstat of everyone 's mother-in-law . |
| 9 | The SNM is a ragged band of fighters with little political ideology beyond the expulsion of President Barre 's forces from northern Somalia and the overthrow of his 20-year-old government . |
| 10 | Other countries use bells to summon people to church but only the English go in for that cascading sound from a ring of six or more bells — ‘ change ringing ’ . |
| 11 | There is that admittedly-dwindling sector of the population which still smokes and those who make their living from the cigarette industry . |
| 12 | The random-walk model described in Section 6.2 is based on the assumption that each possible state of the system ( the stream flow direction in the example in Section 6.2 ) is equally probable . |
| 13 | The key all.unit.id effectively defines a generic heading which contains an integer value for each possible component of a textual identifier . |
| 14 | A set of anaphor resolution rules , based closely on those of Sidner ( 1979a ) , were applied to each possible anaphor in the reading . |
| 15 | The fundamental rule described in Chapter 2 ensures that each possible path in the tree which matches the input string will be followed up . |
| 16 | The character recogniser for the handwriting analyser ( Wright , 1989 ) produces a ranked list of ( up to 6 ) character candidates for each possible node in the character lattice . |
| 17 | The book is non-mathematical and assumes little technical knowledge on the part of the reader . |
| 18 | A few minutes later they were starting up Heymouth Brae , the road that connected Heymouth with the summit and world beyond . |
| 19 | However , Swallow was not optimistic regarding the prospects for the latter , arguing that administrative confusion on the border with the Czech Republic now made it easier to ship kit to Slovakia from a third country . |
| 20 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 21 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ After all , Alice did sacrifice her virtue for you and that grubby brat of a brother — Edward , was it ? ’ |
| 23 | Certainly , there is little strong evidence of an unambiguous growth in permissive child-rearing practice , at least in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | Erm we feel that er in that circumstance the proposals should be retrospective erm and we find the Good Committees er comment on this singularly unhelpful , in that all they say is we do not accept that retrospective implementation of the compensation scheme is appropriate full stop . |
| 25 | That wondersome facility of the young . |
| 26 | Time now to run , to fix her eyes on that tow-headed lad with the green scarf around his stringy , chicken 's neck and never lose sight of him , no matter who got in her way , to catch him and crucify him if necessary to find out where her bag had gone . |
| 27 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 28 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 29 | ‘ The point is that the people inside the organisation are clearly the best at knowing what it does and it is vital to harness that inside knowledge through a multidisciplinary team . ’ |
| 30 | Each mobile electron in the system is represented by a point in k space such that the vector from the origin to the point is proportional to the electron 's momentum , and so represents both the magnitude and direction of the momentum . |