Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , if he was prepared to visit Sanders to make the appointment , why not do so for the lessons as well ? ’ |
| 2 | Lords , ladies , dukes and duchesses figure prominently among the names as well as more ordinary mortals of obviously substantial means . |
| 3 | The petrol ignited immediately , a loud whump filling the room as it consumed Connelly 's body , which twisted insanely on the ropes as he screamed in uncontrollable agony . |
| 4 | In the diplomatic arena , the coalition made it clear throughout the campaign that it would not be amenable to peace initiatives so long as the Iraqi leadership remained unprepared to accede unconditionally to the requirements as laid down in the successive UN Security Council resolutions . |
| 5 | An astonished officer found him still clinging grimly to the controls as he trundled along at a snail 's pace . |
| 6 | In fact you need never move far from the apartments as there is a pizzeria on the corner , a supermarket and plenty of cafés close by . |
| 7 | Then , in the 1960s , the bull of controversy was grasped firmly by the horns as the term ‘ Political Education ’ came into fashion . |
| 8 | Victory in her first war with one of the European powers had the paradoxical effect not of reassuring Japan that she was now a major power able to compete effectively with the others as at least an equal but , instead , of convincing her of her continuing vulnerability and the need to strengthen further her military capability . |
| 9 | In Germany , too , the clergy were distrusted still by the workers as ‘ black police ’ and the most powerful Socialist movement in Europe was avowedly antireligious . |
| 10 | Acorn started and turned towards him and the beetle scurried away over the pebbles as Pipkin moved and woke . |
| 11 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 12 | At first the boys went straight for the cars as usual and the girls did n't notice . |
| 13 | The girls kept well in the wings as play became more rugged . |
| 14 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 15 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |
| 16 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 17 | But she spun away from the cameras as she popped the parcel into her mouth using chopsticks . |
| 18 | We move away from the Germans as the Brigadier is now pointing at some other unfortunate bastards . |
| 19 | Many theories have been put forward over the years as to its original purpose . |
| 20 | Various fairly unscientific theories have been put forward over the years as to why and how it got there . |
| 21 | Sadly , in the second half , the play begins to fall apart at the seams as Harwood attempts to combine comedy with more serious themes . |
| 22 | ‘ Furtherance ’ was to be tested objectively by the courts as well as subjectively by reference to the defendants ' intentions . |
| 23 | Rural teachers melted away into the towns as their schools closed down for lack of pupils and funds . |
| 24 | She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting . |
| 25 | Men were described alternatively in the records as yeoman or husbandman or by their craft name , for industry and agriculture were not then regarded as two entirely separate ventures . |
| 26 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |