Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [det] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further complexities in place deixis arise if the speaker is in motion — it then becomes quite possible to use temporal terms in order to refer to deictic locations , as in : ( 86 ) I first heard that ominous rattle ten miles ago ( 87 ) There 's a good fast food joint just ten minutes from here This raises the issue about whether time deixis or place deixis is more basic . |
| 2 | Network Computing Devices Inc pretty much has the dedicated X-terminal business sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 3 | How much I owe to his continuing good health , that he should feel able and eager , at eighty-two years of age , to entertain poets and undergraduates and mathematical professors and political thinkers so early in the day , and to tell the anecdote of the Bust with his habitual fervour without too much delaying the advent of buttered toast . |
| 4 | There has been extensive theoretical discussion about how this affects the Kolmogorov result , suggesting that with n a little larger than 5/3 but not exactly known . |
| 5 | To misquote Sir Winston Churchill : ‘ Never in the field of human conflict did the votes of so many influence the outcome of so few in so much time . ’ |
| 6 | If you do get a 5° change in the QDMs then your estimate of how much to change the drift allowance can be related to how quickly the QDM change occurred . |