Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [noun prp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , it 's erm its empirically verified that in developing countries er the civil service or the , the government sector is very very large relative to the , to the economy , now whereas say U K or somewhere like France the government public and semi public er organizations employ ten percent of the , the workforce , perhaps a bit , bit more in France than the U K erm in developing countries the government sector can be , you know , over half of the total urban , urban employment , in some cases it 's seventy and eighty percent of er employment . |
| 2 | In fact he was so huge that he became known as the Paunch of Misty Mountain , or simply as Grom the Fat . |
| 3 | She needed at least three full days here and the thought of driving to and fro from Palma every day … no , it was out of the question … impossible . |
| 4 | Talks between Bangladesh and Myanma during January and February had yielded few results and so in March the Bangladesh government launched a diplomatic offensive in an attempt at spurring the international community into preventing a major tragedy occurring . |
| 5 | The government itself , of course , through its own various research organizations , and especially in Britain the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , carries out a great deal of valuable social research based on interviewing . |
| 6 | Finally , we 've got to bring the players back to earth a bit , but two absolute cracking games to look forward to in the next couple of weeks ; Oldham next week , probably the best footballing side in the second division , and away to Swindon the week after , so still a lot to look forward to although disappointment at going out of the Cup . |
| 7 | Already he was well enough off to pay his army , with 6d [ 2.5p ] a day for the rank and file and 1s 0d [ 5p ] for the gentry , and soon after Prestonpans a ship bringing money , arms and a French ambassador-cum-political-adviser arrived at Montrose , 62 miles [ 99 km ] from Edinburgh , followed by two others carrying six field guns and a number of Irish officers . |
| 8 | I arrived bright and early at Brian the falconer 's house for day one of my course . |
| 9 | And even with Mercury the change involved is minuscule : it is , in terms of angles , about 40 seconds per century ( there are 3600 seconds in each degree of arc ) . |
| 10 | Bath cup semi-final is just one of many big events this weekend … at Aintree they race the Grand National … while on the Thames they 'll be rowing the Boat Race … and today in London the Oxford and Cambridge crews were pulled together for the weigh-in … |
| 11 | This had begun in the late thirteenth century , and the edicts were falling thick and fast under Philip the Fair in the early fourteenth century . |
| 12 | And then in September the battle of the Marne — that was no longer cricket . |
| 13 | thank you so have we got this right beyond measure in the chain , the responsibility in the group of companies , you bring to the attention of your board and ultimately to Mr the fact of your concern about the centre piece |
| 14 | The answer might be to reintroduce transport allowances , but only on Tuesday the Racehorse Owners ' Association voted against that . |
| 15 | But elsewhere in Swindon the message has n't got through . |
| 16 | Indeed the pact with the devil emerges as a favoured theme not only in Goethe 's Faust , but also in Melmoth the Wanderer , the strange work of a Church of Ireland clergyman , the Rev. Charles Maturin ( 1780–1824 ) . |
| 17 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 18 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |