Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And remembering how furiously the Larks and the Covington-Pyms — and no doubt Goldsborough himself — had opposed the opening of parliament to the new and much despised middle-classes , he wondered afresh why the captain should now be murmuring against his own kin . |
| 2 | Presumably the materials that were bought not are still there . |
| 3 | Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ? |
| 4 | There is a problem about investigating the first of these hypotheses in that the dreams that are remembered are presumably the ones that have more logical structure . |
| 5 | First-preference votes are presumably the votes that have been most seriously considered . |
| 6 | While we do not expect the Revenue to provide a canteen service , presumably the inspectors and their staff have tea-making facilities at their offices . |
| 7 | Well presumably the men as well . |
| 8 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflec-ting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 9 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflecting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 10 | It was an appalling time of tyranny and religious persecution in which all classes of Scottish society , but mostly the ministers and farmers , and mainly in Ayrshire and Galloway , took the lead in resisting the final efforts of the Monarchy to install Episcopacy , many paying with their lives for adherence to their faith . |
| 11 | The mayor and the chairman of the rural district council met the Minister of Health and Local Government on the issue , and Eddie McAteer also raised with the minister the additional problem of thirty-one subtenants , mostly the sons and daughters of Springtown residents , who had not been mentioned in the statement issued following his meeting with the two local authority leaders . |
| 12 | Mr Snowden was released by firemen just before 8 am and police opened one lane of the eastbound A45 around 10 am purely to help clear the tailbacks that had built up . |
| 13 | And once again the autocracy appeared unable to mobilise effectively the resources that they created , through an industrial economy , to fight a modern war . |
| 14 | Having taken on the teachers and the police , he will now square up to fellow ministers and the voters . |
| 15 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 16 | He switched on the headlights as the car entered the M1 at Brent Cross . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to get three or four more experienced lads in their mid-20s to help bring on the youngsters but I do n't want players who are 30 . ’ |
| 18 | He switched on the lights and drove down the tank paths towards the front gate . |
| 19 | We carried on the traditions but young ones want to question everything , and maybe they 're right . ’ |
| 20 | But they dare n't take on the decisions and responsibility that would allow them to make their own alternatives , and to drop right out . |
| 21 | " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made . |
| 22 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 23 | Anna , determined not to be able to reproach herself for not trying , took on the women and children . |
| 24 | In Dudley , the place of his first ministry , his preaching was so popular that the people not only filled the church , but also hung on the windows and the ‘ leads ’ to hear him . |
| 25 | .. he has shown us that we can take on the Americans and beat them . |
| 26 | 120 golfers have taken on the challenges that Woburn has to offer . |
| 27 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 28 | A market maker , however , takes on the shares until he finds a buyer . |
| 29 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 30 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |