Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since use of land for domestic and industrial purposes is largely incompatible with clean water , potable supply rivers tend to be found in rural settings where they also have considerable amenity value . |
| 2 | The Independent has remained independent from political allegiances though it too favoured a middle-of-the-road political outcome in the 1987 election . |
| 3 | The United Kingdom government had earlier broken ranks when it unilaterally lifted the investment ban in February 1990 [ see p. 37234 ] . |
| 4 | Ackland seems the sort of man who could hammer a nail in with his clenched teeth so he never begins to look like a tentative nonentity . |
| 5 | I 've always tried to keep too clear of foreign riders as you well know , but erm there are n't the riders around that you can slip in erm of the sort that we would want to put in . |
| 6 | Foreign sovereigns and the ambassadors of foreign states are immune from the jurisdiction of the English courts unless they voluntarily submit themselves to it , but the actual extent of the immunity is not free from doubt . |
| 7 | Oddly , he finds that about 70 per cent of his clients end up buying very different homes than they originally intended . |
| 8 | It may be an over-simplification , but imagine the improvement to our daily lives if everyone always understood everyone else , and it our speech and actions were always interpreted in the way we intended . |
| 9 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 10 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 11 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 12 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 13 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 14 | His troops were left outside that city throughout the entire bitter winter of 1942–1943 , resulting in the loss of a quarter of a million German troops when they eventually surrendered to the Russians on 2nd , February 1943 . |
| 15 | It is time to turn to the turbulent scene of public examinations as they now are . |
| 16 | She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house . |
| 17 | as if he had no more unexplained attributes than anyone else . |
| 18 | Normally common sense and her instinct for self-protection , much sharpened since her disastrous relationship with Giles , would have outlawed such foolish thoughts before they even reached her conscious mind . |
| 19 | Young people who abuse drugs regularly often end up as very immature adults because they never learn to cope with their problems . |
| 20 | Yet sometimes , like now , she wanted a neural-driven transmitter that would send a signal that would send Ace and Daak into painful paroxysms if they so much as thought of questioning her instructions . |
| 21 | There are also others whose role in the home has changed or who have taken perhaps lesser jobs than they once had . ’ |
| 22 | These reports indicate they 've got more bloody AAMs than we ever dreamed of . |
| 23 | Many studies of previous generations have shown that many young people leave rural areas before they even enter the job market , and that these migrants are the most able and motivated ( Rieger , 1972 ; Hannan , 1969 ) thus adding weight to the theory of cumulative causation , as the less able young , the old , and the redundant come to form a greater and greater proportion of the population . |
| 24 | Most attention in the past , however , has been given to residential differentiation within urban areas , whereas the current trends are operating on a much broader canvas , such that young school leavers are drawn to London from all over Britain , older people retire to remoter rural areas where they previously enjoyed holidays , and young married couples move not just to the suburbs but to smaller cities and towns situated at considerable distance from the major urban centres . |
| 25 | Your protected rights can only be invested in a single contract , in contrast to your/ your employer 's extra or voluntary contributions which can be invested in as many different personal plans as you please . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought , ‘ well , it 's the Boat Race , not very high-powered crews considering they mostly do other things ’ . |
| 27 | It 's my duty to cover certain pastoral matters before we actually get on to the business of the seminar . |
| 28 | I may indeed want to stand by women living in less fortunate circumstances than I today . |
| 29 | has already said that the Tories do n't seem to have any provision for capital and I 'm dying to know why they have as much to say about the additional buildings as anyone else er I 'd be interested to know what they say . |
| 30 | Thus Flavia was unable to feel a sense of kinship with people who were not decisively older than herself , who were not real grown-ups as she still called them . |