Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Information will be used by you solely for the purpose of evaluating the possible purchase by you of the Company and , unless and until you have completed such a transaction , the Information will be kept confidential by you and will not be disclosed , in whole or in part to any other person , except that the Information or portions thereof may be disclosed to those of your directors , officers , employees , agents , auditors , lawyers , bankers and professional advisers ( collectively ‘ Representatives ’ ) who need to know such information for the purpose of evaluating the prospective acquisition ( it being understood that those Representatives will be informed of the confidential nature of the Information and shall agree to be bound by this Agreement and , if requested by ourselves , will enter into a direct agreement with us on the same terms as this Agreement ) . |
| 2 | There were definite signs of something in the wind and when I saw who we were drawn with for the first rounds — Nick Price and Ray Floyd — both Nick and I were delighted . |
| 3 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 4 | She lathered herself languidly beneath the refreshing jets of water , letting the spray caress every hot , sticky part of her with a glorious wave of sensual awareness . |
| 5 | I suspect Age Concern do n't require that but it 's there , and they 're the sole user of it at the moment . |
| 6 | The cliff was sheer , dropping down to secret rocky coves below them with the sea gently lapping white sand . |
| 7 | I took one last , depressed look at myself in the mirror above the electric fire and clattered down the stairs . |
| 8 | His colleague stirred , and fixed his attention on a large dark car which was making a stately progress towards them on the southband lane . |
| 9 | A comparatively recent sub-section , as it were , of the Branch , it only came into being in 1973 when Ray Davis joined the Branch as the sole practitioner amongst us in the use of flight recorders . |
| 10 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 11 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 12 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 13 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 14 | Others go in a vain search for it on the sabbath . |
| 15 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 16 | But they very soon did , for within a few days , on October 19 , Keith made a speech in Edgbaston which demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude for someone in the running for the Leadership . |
| 17 | Dana had wanted to take his old bike with him on the ship back to the States . |
| 18 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 19 | Since their traditional migration routes lay in areas which came under Russian influence fairly early ( Tornsk , Kuznetsk and Tara districts ) , they established economic , political and cultural contacts with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | Is he aware that what he achieved , or failed to achieve , might please the little Englanders behind him but will be a tragedy for the people of the United Kingdom and the Scottish part of it through the 1990s ? |
| 21 | He hooked the door shut with his foot , and walked away , spilling wrong notes behind him like a gardener sowing weeds . |
| 22 | And he saw the work of an old favourite of his from the London days , J Maris , who had some beautiful things on show . |
| 23 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |
| 24 | All the services listed offer free guidance to anyone over the age of 19 who has been away from education for a significant period . |
| 25 | Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen . |
| 26 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 27 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 28 | The continual passage from one to the other was initially as refreshing as a succession of hot and cold showers , and ultimately as enervating . |
| 29 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got a good man living in that old place of yours above the stables , ’ said Tom , enjoying a warm at the kitchen fire before riding on . |