Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Maurier always said that her life would be dull , not to her but to other people . |
| 2 | Barnes 's decision therefore came as somewhat of a slap in the face to these well rehearsed points . |
| 3 | Yeltsin 's proposals specifically envisaged that he , as Chair of the Supreme Soviet , should be given powers to issue " binding orders " , as should the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | ‘ La Malfa 's resignation just shows that anyone who has been involved in government for so long can be involved ( in corruption ) , however pure he may claim to be , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 6 | The Minister 's Department now concedes that it can not check every farm in every year . |
| 7 | Cinzia 's eyes suddenly flashed and she smiled , displaying an excessive number of rather dirty teeth . |
| 8 | Berger 's methodology only works because there is the implicit assumption of a non-distorted theory as a possibility with which distorted forms can be compared . |
| 9 | I 've seen an American training video where a policeman 's legs just buckled when one was used on him . |
| 10 | The strain of the couple 's pact clearly showed while they were together yesterday . |
| 11 | Similarly , Sauguet 's cat probably thought that his owner needed help , and rushed over to lick the hands from which the sounds seemed to be coming , as a way of comforting him — just as a mother cat would rush across to lick the fur of one of its kittens if the young animal appeared to be in distress . |
| 12 | But this traveller 's bible also says that there are an awful lot of buses in Brazil . |
| 13 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 14 | Experiments with ZETA were underway in 1957 and Thonemann 's team successfully demonstrated that they could produce quasi-stable highly ionised plasmas with densities of 1013 to 1014 ( ten to one hundred thousand billion ) particles per cm 3 , at temperatures of about 5 million degrees for times of milliseconds . |
| 15 | Hahnemann 's writings clearly show that he differentiates between the level of potency and smallness of the dose i.e. the quantity given . |
| 16 | Hay 's booksellers justifiably boast that they cater for all tastes . |
| 17 | No , Steen 's behaviour certainly suggested that he regarded her as a threat in some way . |
| 18 | Patterson 's evidence plainly indicates that there has been a gradual swing away from front values in the past century or so . |
| 19 | But if Labour 's leadership genuinely believe that their party is irrelevant to the task of developing non-sectarian politics , they should explain just how they see this task being accomplished . |
| 20 | The child 's smile never wavers though her eyes are knowing . |
| 21 | Christopher 's schedule already highlights that his style will be very different from that of his predecessor James Baker , who was the architect of the Arab-Israeli peace talks . |
| 22 | If you are playing Dwarf Wars , for example , the adventurers might reach Hargrim 's tomb only to find that it has been defiled and looted . |
| 23 | I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time . |
| 24 | The County 's policy actually says that it should erm avoid unacceptable traffic consequences on any single part of the network . |
| 25 | Since Sotheby 's catalogue categorically stated that their version was ‘ unknown ’ to me , it seemed reasonable that my views should be made known to them . |
| 26 | Hillary 's critics also say that she is way to the left of her husband politically . |
| 27 | The bleeper clipped to Whitlock 's belt suddenly activated and he was quick to silence it . |
| 28 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that today 's statement clearly shows that he is a prisoner of the right wing of his political party , which is responsible for the demise of his party in Scotland ? |
| 29 | The Potter 's hand certainly slipped when it made him . |
| 30 | Ian found Williams 's assertion hard to believe but he pushed his chair back , conceding defeat . |