Example sentences of "[indef pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing the right colour at all . |
| 2 | He was keen to tell everyone the Great News about my dad coming back to life to expose Christianity . |
| 3 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 4 | Even more important was the fact that people had devoted their lives to establishing the identity of such creatures ; that for someone the original distinction between Porcellio and Armadillidium had been a matter of life-consuming importance . |
| 5 | IN his black and silver warrior 's robes , brandishing his flashing , menacing sword — and it is a real one — Glenn Lobo looks ready to do someone a great deal of mischief . |
| 6 | Whereas , taking him taking one guy a week for a week , is putting no-one in jeopardy and giving somebody a decent wage for a week . |
| 7 | It would n't hurt for some of them throwing away but none the right size of course . |
| 8 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 9 | Struggling to hold back tears , Mr Parry added : ‘ If my son becomes a symbol for peace and gives everyone a new sense of hope after so much tragedy , then that will be Tim 's unique achievement . ’ |
| 10 | Shulamith Firestone undoubtedly did everyone a great service by vigorously extending this notion to women , and pointing out the absurdity of men 's viewing themselves as totally detached individuals in relation to the rest of society , while still expecting to go home to a wife who would always have their dinner hot for them in the evening . |
| 11 | That way you 'd have saved everyone a whole lot of trouble . ’ |
| 12 | So if you would usually start the programme with the address from the mayor at 9.30am , consider having the mayor speak at a breakfast at 8am and then give everyone a two-hour break from 11am to have a sight-seeing walk or shopping session before returning for lunch . |
| 13 | More than a quarter of a millennium of Guinnesses ; every one at the head of the company and everyone a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Richard Guinness ( 1 ) ( c. 1690–1766 ) of Celbridge , Co . |
| 14 | The reported wind speeds gave everyone a false sense of security . |
| 15 | ‘ A little spartan , ’ he ran his finger along the nearest buttress and examined the dust it collected , ‘ probably seen better days , but nothing a good lick of paint and a few ornaments would n't help to brighten up . |
| 16 | Probably nothing a quick tweak on the truss rod and bridge adjusters would n't sort out , but seeing as that would have involved taking the neck off , I did n't pursue it … |
| 17 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 18 | ‘ So , ’ I finished for him , ‘ we can ignore everything the little bastard in Newgate told us ! ’ |
| 19 | Living and working separately from men , on our own , or with other women and children , as a conscious political choice and labelled separatism is not something the vast majority of women would identify as a possibility . |
| 20 | Existing qualifications will have to be recognised for the time being , probably for some years , and APL , or accreditation of prior learning , is something the National Council for Vocational Qualifications is still exploring . |
| 21 | A whole line of Shepherds , each one the perfect advisor for his T'ang . |
| 22 | This long extract gives one the general flavour of Locke 's discourse , besides illustrating some of his main propositions . |
| 23 | Well no , I mean , a tha even tha that one the other day with the eight workers I mean it |
| 24 | For example , on his first appearance in the 2nd Division for us , against Blackpool at The Nest on 22 October 1921 , he hit the single goal that gave a weakened Palace side victory , he got another one the following week in an excellent 3–1 win at Blackpool which was our first away from home in the higher division , then returned to Selhurst the next Saturday and headed the goal that disposed of Clapton Orient in a rugged London derby . |
| 25 | Some limited bit significance is provided by splitting the operation code field into two portions , one specifying the instruction group and one the particular instruction within the group . |
| 26 | Die-hard enthusiasts may prefer one the full length of the car to cater for all maintenance without having to turn the car round . |
| 27 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 28 | I know that many others share this natural affinity , for the remote hill regions give one the same sense of independence and adventure as the sea . |
| 29 | If the matter is one the direct outcome of which may be trial of the applicant and his possible punishment for an alleged offence by a court claiming jurisdiction to do so , the matter is criminal . |
| 30 | The new Saab CD 2.3 Turbo delivers everything a high-flying chairman of the board could expect from a luxury limousine . |