Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [det] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be those saying that of course the UK must help this or that ruler protect himself , and anyway , it 's a little naive to ignore the markets . |
| 2 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 3 | The sky was still grey and menacing and both sisters allowed their eyes to comb the white mantled slope of the moors for some evidence of life . |
| 4 | ‘ After all they 've done for me , ’ he bit toughly , ‘ I 'd have far more compunction if I allowed their youngest and much-thought-of son to ruin his life over some female who obviously does n't care a damn for him ! ’ |
| 5 | An agreement is made when one person makes an offer to another and that other accepts it . |
| 6 | Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers . |
| 7 | Centrally organised arrangements are sometimes not appropriate and that point brings me to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) . |
| 8 | Increasingly , he envisaged a great war in the pacific and many others shared his expectations : the prophecy of Jayabhaya was again on everyone 's lips . |
| 9 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 10 | In any one week there could be a dozen or more children spilling their beans , wetting the beds , hoarding old crusts . |
| 11 | That 's real history that is , words that are vanishing daily , fewer and fewer people learning them , all full of Dallas and Dynasty and the Beatles jingle jangle . ’ |
| 12 | The equipment may be more sophisticated but these fisherman say there are not so different from their more humble colleagues . |
| 13 | The evolutionary pressure for some exaggeration of fighting ability is present and many species puff themselves up in various ways , thereby making themselves look more fearsome than they really are . |
| 14 | ‘ Secondly , the post of organiser at the Whyte House , is ACE-funded and has been vacant since December 1992 and all attempts to fill it have proved unsuccessful . |
| 15 | I looks rather good and each shelf holds one full-size or two half-size trays . |
| 16 | It was reported at the time that ten or more navvies met their death fighting and falling from scaffolding as this tunnel is unusually high and was built to accommodate double tracks . |
| 17 | The 1930 Act gave the Education Minister power to nominate up to a quarter of the membership of Education Committees in Northern Ireland ( it being understood that the nominees would be clergymen ) ; regulated the membership of School Management Committees ; and required local education authorities to provide Bible instruction in any school if the parents of ten or more children demanded it . |
| 18 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
| 19 | Whenever women begin anything it 's , it 's horrifying and shocking to begin with and as more and more women do it more and more people accept it , whether men or women . |
| 20 | If this hypothesis is correct — as more and more biologists believe it to be — then it illustrates that symbiosis , co-operation between organisms , is a crucial evolutionary step in nature ; for without it , organisms as complex as plants , animals , and fungi simply would not exist . |
| 21 | As more and more frauds emerge it becomes apparent that conmen are trying to dupe vulnerable people . |
| 22 | As Robert Paul Wolff ( 1969 , p. 66 ) points out : ‘ The Pythagorean theorem does not flicker and grow dim as more and more minds embrace it . ’ |
| 23 | With more and more people getting their pop information from our squalid popular press and with most modern magazines covering music using only the language of consumerism and gossip , it is increasingly difficult to feel optimistic about rock journalism 's values . |
| 24 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 25 | As more and more people concern themselves with psychological growth , we anticipate extensions of intellectual , emotional and creative capabilities . |
| 26 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 27 | With more and more pensioners owing their homes outright , and with eight out of 10 recently retired pensioners having an income from investment and savings , is it not reasonable to recognise a measure of prosperity among pensioners ? |
| 28 | Spasm of the arteries in one or more fingers makes them go white for a varying length of time . |
| 29 | Four years in the making , the three-day event had itself been organised by a team of 15 people based in the US , Hong Kong , South Africa , Brussels , Leeds and Manchester , all communicating by electronic mail ( so-called ‘ e-mail ’ , in which messages typed into a personal computer are sent by telephone line to a big , central computer that stores them until they are called up by one or more addressees using their own computers ) . |
| 30 | During chemical reactions , one or more substances change their chemical composition to form one or more new substances . |