Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 2 | ‘ It takes most soaps quite a long time to establish themselves in the favour of the audience . |
| 3 | The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality . |
| 4 | Oldest competitor was full time astrologer Gerald Pitchforth , who at 91 still manages nine holes twice a week at Ferndown . |
| 5 | In the UK , euroShell provides separate invoices twice a month for each country of pick-up , showing the value of purchases in sterling and local currency . |
| 6 | Bains believed ‘ that the advice of officers must be available wherever the effective decisions are taken and if it is the party group which makes those decisions then a way must be found of making the officers ’ advice available ’ ( Bains 1972 : 18 — 19 ) . |