Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |
| 2 | Gould , particularly where one of his most important and influential subscribers was concerned , felt exceedingly uncomfortable in the role of campaigner . |
| 3 | We would like you to join us for dinner , meet our friends , enjoy a glass of wine or two over something as simple as a plate of pasta , or as extravagant as a six course meal . |
| 4 | Obviously there was not much that any Government concerned in governing the United Kingdom could do to meet the wilder demands of the " Left is Right Group " , but , since it was never clear whether these were immediate demands or merely long-term hopes , Cabinet office for Carolan and Under — Secretaryships for one or two of his more articulate followers contrived to keep the group within the Parliamentary fold . |
| 5 | They can not accept that one of their most cherished foxes has been shot . |
| 6 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 7 | It can be no more tolerable than one of its most specific forms , behaviourism in psychology . |
| 8 | If I do n't manage the bedspread I know that my friend would really like a loose , plain , black sweater in fine wool for winter or a synthetic yarn for summer rather than one of my more dashing designer confections . |
| 9 | The Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) confirmed on March 6 that two of its most senior officials had left the organization . |
| 10 | It was lucky for the Bolshevik government , though not accidental , that two of its most suspected categories in local society were powerless in the Famine areas . |
| 11 | STOCKBROKERS : STILL WILLING AND EAGER Post-Big Bang , many stockbrokers are subsidiaries of larger financial groups , but more than 200 of them still welcome private client business |
| 12 | If you just born you 're free , at the age of five , fifteen percent is attacked , at the age of eight , it 's forty percent , and eight of you over forty , congratulations , you 're all got arteriosclerosis . |
| 13 | Up in the hills , at the place of marching water , I found Ashley Watt and one of her more exotic cousins . |
| 14 | And one of their most valuable assets is consummate flexibility . |
| 15 | Philip Pouncey 's death at the age of eighty in 1990 ( see The Art Newspaper No.3 , December 1990 , p. 2 ) robbed Old Master drawings studies of its greatest connoisseur and one of its most valued personalities . |
| 16 | The focal point is the Rathaus ( town hall ) , with a fine sixteenth-century tower that dominates the many charming houses in the vicinity , and one of its most striking houses offers a reminder that the Swiss have been at the business of looking after travellers for a long time . |
| 17 | It is sometimes referred to as a wide shot , and one of its most important uses is to establish the nature of a location in the minds of the viewers . |
| 18 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 19 | In June 1950 the Daily Express described him as ‘ at 32 the Royal College of Art 's youngest teacher , a brilliant exhibitioner in London and New York , and one of our most sought-after magazine illustrators ’ . |
| 20 | Impending death was an early subject , and one of his most accomplished schoolboy poems is ‘ The River ’ , based on an actual suicide . |
| 21 | Bremer collects gallstones , the middle-ear bones of Dwarfs and Halflings , preserved shrunken ears ( separated into male and female , nobles and commoners ) , and one of his more distressing habits is keeping one eyeball from each of his victims if at all possible . |
| 22 | Israel designed Avedon 's PORTRAITS ( 1976 ) and two of his most important exhibitions : JACOB ISRAEL AVEDON at the Museum of Modern Art , New York ( 1974 ) and a sensational exhibition of large-scale prints at the Marlborough Gallery in New York ( 1975 ) . |
| 23 | Science 's negative relation to the past emerges as one of its most distinctive and significant aspects , one which marks a complete break with the cumulative structures of the arts and social sciences . |
| 24 | The NSA has a huge operation in Britain which it regards as one of its most important listening posts , being strategically placed to eavesdrop not only on East Europe but West Europe as well . |
| 25 | So far as one of its most important components was concerned , early opera developed pari passu with solo song , but its evolution was controlled by other factors . |
| 26 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 27 | Hunt 's fine victory at Zandvoort , which I remember as one of his most controlled and patient races , also marked Hunt 's twenty-ninth birthday . |
| 28 | For nearly thirty years that crusade has been regarded as one of his least successful , whereas a later British Crusade at Earls Court in London in 1966 has always been seen as a triumph . |
| 29 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 30 | She was on the point of ordering some of her people to hurry over to Acropolis Park to call in person , when one of her more canny officers , who had lost no time in searching the sector , arrived back at the Club . |