Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This seemed just the movement ’ , he wrote in a letter , ‘ to give scope for all my enthusiasms and even hobby-horses . ’ |
| 2 | Many of my friends and even relatives felt sorry for me . |
| 3 | Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it . |
| 4 | The Edelson family were traditionalists and Alice became one of Gainford 's best-loved characters for her activities as both benefactor and conservationist with a deep interest in the history and heritage of the village . |
| 5 | Mrs Crumwallis 's medical ministrations were so notorious for their vagaries that even Toby , a healthy young man with no great tolerance of the sick , would not willingly subject a boy to them . |
| 6 | Alan Milburn , Darlington 's Labour candidate , said : ‘ All the evidence suggests that fares are rising , that pensioners will loose their concessions and now services to Darlington will suffer as well . |
| 7 | Faye began to struggle to sit up , but Belinda forestalled her , relieved that the other woman had n't commented on the tired bags beneath her eyes that even make-up could n't fully conceal . |
| 8 | Marian closed her eyes and even Allen averted his gaze and flinched . |
| 9 | As he said it , he held her eyes and suddenly Ronni was remembering that glass of champagne they 'd shared at the party . |
| 10 | The governments of the FRG and the GDR reaffirm their declarations that only peace shall emanate from German soil . |
| 11 | And even the drizzle and grey skies wo n't stop some putting on their new outfits , though others succumbed to the weather and brought out their brollies and even wellington boots . |
| 12 | It feels to them that a major event has changed their lives and yet people around them seem to be wanting them to forget it and ‘ get on with things ’ as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | This weapon is a coercive metaphor or conceptual structuring lens which carves up the world according to its needs and either conditions or eradicates colourless inhabitants by subjecting them to ‘ diagnosis ’ or excluding them from ‘ symbiosis ’ in a perpetual present . |
| 14 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 15 | At the same time the private sector and foreign capital lose confidence in the ability of the government to manage its affairs and so people prefer not to invest but take funds out of the country . |
| 16 | In fact , all European countries were likely to have more than one nationality within their frontiers and often people of the same nationality would live in several countries . |
| 17 | How wonderful it must be to live in a community where everyone trusts their neighbours and even strangers ; a community where you can invite outsiders into your house , garden or car , and share hospitality and friendship without any fear of danger . |
| 18 | This procedure , however , has the disadvantage common to many cell marking techniques that the cells selected for labelling need to be isolated from their neighbours and hence disaggregation and reaggregation steps are necessary . |
| 19 | Some personnel directors speculate that young male managers have problems relating to older women , who may remind them of their wives or even mothers . |
| 20 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 21 | The first and foremost is natural selection ; individuals that are particularly well-adapted to their environment reproduce more than their fellows and so copies of their genes become more common . |
| 22 | Some heads of departments had used the summer vacation to write the bulk of their reports but sometimes advisers requested additional information in subsequent visits . |
| 23 | Deciduous trees , like this beech , lose a lot of water through their leaves and so water loss is reduced by shedding them . |
| 24 | There had been talk of meeting for a drink in the evening , but the talk had taken place at five in the morning as Kelly was hurriedly slipping into her clothes and now Nick seemed to have forgotten . |
| 25 | Nor had she ever seen her mother expose her breasts or even legs , at home . |
| 26 | Macmillan astutely side-stepped the opposition by appointing General ‘ Pug ’ Ismay , Churchill 's wartime Chief Staff Officer , and General Ian Jacob , who had been one of his deputies and then Director-General of the BBC , to use their acknowledged experience of the workings of Whitehall to produce a blueprint of the most practicable way of bringing the three Service ministries together into a single Ministry of Defence . |
| 27 | After the war , Tute worked in a variety of jobs where his skills as both sailor and writer were much in demand — broadcasting , film-making , and as script editor for London Weekend Television . |
| 28 | Dustin was doing so badly that Nichols decided to allow the actor time to learn his lines and then redo the test . |
| 29 | Maddison headed wide from one of his crosses and neither Shearer nor Maddison could just reach another . |
| 30 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |