Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are twenty-one Anglican churches in Halifax and about half-a-dozen denominations , so Kit Widdows invited them all to take part and about one third took up his invitation and produced a play . |
| 2 | At many industrial sites , for example , workmen routinely carry portable radios , whereas a few years ago , only security guards had them . |
| 3 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 4 | Day continues : ‘ Very few outlets would warrant more than one product , and that is usually a lager , so ale brands find it quite difficult to get in-trade distribution . ’ |
| 5 | Nitrates can have harmful effects , but are usually kept in check by fortnightly water changes to dilute them . |
| 6 | Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty . |
| 7 | Much as Mandy 's well-intentioned little white lies annoyed her , Charity felt intensely loyal to her irrepressible cousin , and she was n't going to tell him that Mandy had an unfortunate trait of bending the truth into what ever pigeon holes suited her . |
| 8 | Jonathan Goodman believes that publishing should be a ‘ dynamic entrepreneurial business ’ , and last year set up Carlton Books to prove it . |
| 9 | However , later UNITA reports made it clear that the two men had in fact defected , and accused Portugal of assisting them . |
| 10 | But you do n't have to seek out specialist shops to buy them . |
| 11 | These are important times of our lives — too often biology books neglect them and assume we are forever in our youth and prime . |
| 12 | Now Government cuts mean he will be released with £5,000 and some qualifications . |
| 13 | Today Swindon Magistrates sentenced her to 3 months ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | Two seasons ago Metro Pictures treated us to a collection of ‘ found art ’ paintings by anonymous amateur limners purchased mostly at thrift shops by a West Coast artist named Jim Shaw . |
| 15 | ROKER flop John Colquhoun has revealed how terrace taunts stung him into his best performance for Sunderland . |
| 16 | At the very least job exhibitions give you a good chance to practise your interviewing technique . |
| 17 | Does daddy go in there drink drinks does he ? |
| 18 | First Franciscan monks lived here , then Canossiane nuns ran it as a convent school . |
| 19 | Sometimes Cabinet meetings horrify me because of the amount of rubbish talked by some Ministers who come there after reading briefs which they do not understand . |
| 20 | How man saucepans do you need |
| 21 | That 's exactly how A types see it . |
| 22 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 23 | However health officers say they have already slashed the waiting list and that children now face a maximum eight-week delay . |
| 24 | No , I do n't want a lecture on the birds and the bees , I was just wondering where software companies find them , and how they learn their art in the first place ? |
| 25 | The Albanian Communist Party , formed by the defeated minority in the former ruling communist PLA when party reformists renamed it in 1991 , was thus outlawed . |
| 26 | He returned sometime before 1804 to Glasgow , where family connections enabled him to compete successfully against David Hamilton [ q.v. ] for the Hunterian Museum at the university . |