Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sutherland alone , one third of the population was evicted ( by burning down their homes in most cases ) to make way for sheep ranching and game shooting — which ensured in their turn that the pine forests would stand little chance of regenerating . |
| 2 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
| 3 | Army " hardliners " , who believed in the supremacy of military over civilian institutions , had previously boycotted the peace process and demanded that the URNG lay down its arms before any agreement was reached . |
| 4 | Captain Montgomery says he 's going to shut down his engines in another half-mile . |
| 5 | Nu did not set down his impressions till many years later , but they are very similar : |
| 6 | F. R. Leavis gathered together his contributions to this discussion in Education and the university which was published in 1943 . |
| 7 | The second is a mutual agreement that substantive conditions of supply will hold , for example ‘ in exchange for you granting me an exclusive territory , I promise to sell only your products in that territory ’ . |
| 8 | The great skua stercorarius skua is an exciting bird to see along our coasts at this time of year as it makes its way from its northern breeding ground to its wintering area . |
| 9 | So our thanks to those people past and present , sung and unsung , who 've worked with us and for us through ten demanding , deadline-defying years . |
| 10 | Write down your liabilities in this column |
| 11 | On your own , write down your answers to these questions . |
| 12 | Write down your assets in this column |
| 13 | We looked down our noses at this pair of student hicks . |
| 14 | Erm , there 's just one item which m might be added , or perhaps our representatives on this body could take it up some time , and that 's the amount of deposit which is needed by the post office from er , new tenants , I do n't know if they 're called tenants , or licensees whatever , to run rural post offices . |
| 15 | He had held her and comforted her , wiped away her tears without any trace of scorn or mockery , had n't he ? |
| 16 | Says Renault UK 's Marketing Director , : ‘ We have closely analysed the executive sector to find out where our strengths and weaknesses lie and formulate exactly what buyers in this sector demand from their cars . |
| 17 | However , if Target pays dividends to Newco outside the group income election , Newco can elect to set off its losses against such dividends as if they were taxable income ( see s242 ) . |
| 18 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 19 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |
| 20 | So only Neil Webb left if you discount the goalkeeper and I remember the last time we did that Forest live game up at Bolton Forest had to use their both their substitutes in that game as well quite early on . |
| 21 | Miguez Bonino sums up their views on this point as follows : |
| 22 | The choice for the children trapped in the welfare system is therefore not solely between white families and a life of institutional care as we are led to believe ; there are black families willing and capable of opening up their homes to these children , but there have been policies and practices which have prevented this development . |
| 23 | Rex turned up his hands in all innocence . |
| 24 | Therefore , it makes sense that the branch , in the first instance , should be addressed by these people so that we can make up our minds at that level as to who we feel will be the best person to start recommending to go forward . |
| 25 | Mr Major told him : ‘ If you were here more often , you would know how often I have set out my views on that subject . ’ |
| 26 | I must have poured out my troubles at such length , and he must have put to me a sufficient number of searching questions , that , before we had drawn breath , the afternoon was already far advanced . |
| 27 | It is most important that arts teachers see themselves first and foremost as teachers and only after carrying out their duties in this respect to see themselves as artists . |
| 28 | In a global context , few people in the world today can live out their lives without some awareness of , or indeed direct contact with agencies of state administration . |
| 29 | Major hotels and restaurants are making the most of new ideas like these and , realising the need to invest in the best modern equipment available , they are increasingly relying on equipment manufacturers to fit out their kitchens with these innovations . |
| 30 | The verderers were enabled , in return for an annual payment of £1 , to secure for the commoners the right to turn out their animals during these periods from year to year . |