Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gum shields are one thing ( having rattled my teeth on many a South African hard field in bygone days , and having been bitten more than once in scrums , I wish they had appeared long ago ) , but shoulder pads are entirely different and their acceptance could change the game for the worse , in my opinion . |
| 2 | And er , I think , I wo I would wish to extend my thanks to all the finance staff , er , particularly Ann in helping us to arrive at this position . |
| 3 | I am rather unsure of my qualifications for such an honour , but I feel deeply grateful and flattered to be joining the many famous people who have received the Freedom of this great City , including my more illustrious and worthy ancestor , the third Earl Spencer . |
| 4 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 5 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 6 | It trained its beams on my eyelids with all the casual cruelty of a schoolkid playing with a compact mirror . |
| 7 | I just get my bunches of three the wrong way round because I know where they are . |
| 8 | ‘ Part of my job ’ , said one , ‘ is to make sure that the approach in every district is similar throughout the area and that we are consistent , in the same way that it 's [ my superior 's ] job to make sure that I 'm consistent along with my colleagues in all the areas within the region . ’ |
| 9 | Crowninshield sliced through my objections with all the brute force of his family 's fortune . |
| 10 | By the time she was nineteen or twenty she might have changed her views about such an austere future . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the strong element of central intervention ensures that one local authority can not be very different in its policies from all the others ; citizens can travel round the country to places under different party control without detecting any very noticeable variations in the quality of local services . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a terrible wrench for any mother to give up seeing her sons on such an important and what should be a gloriously happy day . ’ |
| 13 | And although she does consult with colleagues , advisory committees and city councillors , according to her critics , Dr Fohrbeck fails to present her projects in such a way as to find much-needed allies on the city council . |
| 14 | That his warm breath on her face churned up her insides to such an extent that she was forced to lie rigid ? |
| 15 | In 1967 , I attempted to introduce legislation requiring car manufacturers to design their products in such a way that when eventually the vehicles are consigned to scrap , their plastics and metals could be easily separated . |
| 16 | About a third said unequivocally that they would not support the repeal , and even the doubtfuls expressed their opinions in such a way as to leave no doubt about the strength of their reservations . |
| 17 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 18 | Dealers and artists complain now , but it should be remembered that they were happy to sell to Saatchi in the first place , and doubtless reaped the benefit of having placed work by their artists in such a prestigious collection in terms of increased prices . |
| 19 | When he considers his share of the Conservative party manifesto , will my hon. Friend give a promise to my Skelmersdale council tenants that they will be able to purchase their houses under such a scheme in the future ? |
| 20 | No doubt the rest of Europe will say yes to that , but the British Government will , as usual , drag their heels on such a development . |
| 21 | The organisers and the participants in the workshop wish to extend their thanks to both the sponsors and the funders for their support . |
| 22 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 23 | She wanted to go down on her knees in all the muck and dust and cry and cry until she was sick . |
| 24 | The Splash Principle — the dark markings on this grey tree frog spread across its legs in such a way that they break up its shape . |
| 25 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 26 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , only families in real difficulty were prepared to see their own older generation end their lives in such a place . |
| 28 | Circuses which use animals do so for profit , and there is no satisfactory scientific evidence that animals benefit in any way from their experiences in such an establishment — they can not educate the public in the artificial environment of performing tricks , they only serve to entertain . |
| 29 | Kay Evans presented their certificates to all the new teachers who were present , congratulated them all and encouraged them to take an active part in the training days . |
| 30 | The bats then erupted from their roosts like all the demons of hell , screaming , whirling and excreting partly digested fruit over the full length and height of the ship . |