Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoteliers constantly argue that Muzak encourages relaxation but it is certainly not to everyone 's taste . |
| 2 | You would n't , would you ? ’ he asked , his eyes so pleading that Leith , aware that he was asking her to ring Rosemary and then pass the phone over to him , had no thought to refuse . |
| 3 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 4 | The speakers hardly whine and Jim Reid now sings with a US accent , rather than mumbling in a Scots one — it all sounds improbably adult-oriented . |
| 5 | Hanne and Jens always hoped that Svend would join them on their farm , but when it became clear that his interests lay in constructional engineering they gladly supported him , despite their disappointment and the sacrifices they had to make . ’ |
| 6 | This is the night we British fans also learn whether Woody 's ( Woody Harrelson ) political career takes off , and will find out what Norm ( George Wendt ) loves most in the world . |
| 7 | This is the night we British fans also learn whether Woody 's ( Woody Harrelson ) political career takes off , and will find out what Norm ( George Wendt ) loves most in the world . |
| 8 | The words simply mean that Jesus was conscious that someone was seeking his help . |
| 9 | The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time . |
| 10 | Manners briefly countered that Dr Newman had said that Italian was more in accordance with the true Jesuit spirit than Gothic . |
| 11 | The Roman army was now committed to establishing a frontier in difficult terrain and their losses steadily mounted until Scapula , worn out with bitterness and frustration , collapsed and died . |
| 12 | ( The courts finally decided that Indiana state law governed the purchase but examined Swiss law because important parts of the transaction had taken place in Switzerland ) . |
| 13 | Against BC the gaps duly materialised and Joe Stanley , Va'Aiga Tuigamala — a pocket-battleship of a wing — Walter Little , Bruce Deans and Zinzan Brooke crossed for tries . |
| 14 | But his parents soon realised that Ashley would need more specialized help , so they turned to the Peto Institute in Hungary , which has pioneered the treatment of children like Ashley with what 's known as conductive education . |
| 15 | Bennett himself had a couple of chances late in the half , but the visitors also threatened as Alton 's defenders had to cope with the bright sun in their eyes . |
| 16 | However the conservationists and oil companies both agree that President Bush must now come up with a viable energy policy . |
| 17 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 18 | England and Wales are many times more populated than Kenya . |
| 19 | The politicians , army officers , civil servants and government officials all descended and Aarau , of course , was too small to accommodate them in the style to which they were accustomed . |
| 20 | ‘ I have got ambition , ’ Hari said quickly , her cheeks suddenly flushed and Emily could see that her words had stung . |
| 21 | The bag and its gruesome contents still lay where Cranston had dropped it . |
| 22 | Throughout the early days of October the Allies blithely assumed that Antwerp could withstand investiture . |
| 23 | Observers also considered that Saddam 's efforts to resume peace talks had been designed both to " neutralize " Iran in preparation for Iraq 's August invasion of Kuwait , and to secure its assistance in any war between Iraq and its Arab and Western adversaries . |
| 24 | So I was not surprised when he rang me a few weeks later to say that Dorothy was in hospital . |
| 25 | ‘ Psychologists now think that America has never recovered from the traumatic blow of introducing baseball into the Los Angeles Olympics and then losing in the final to Japan . ’ |
| 26 | The reports , first published in the New York Times , revealed that US investigators now believed that Ahmed Jabril , leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) , had paid Libyan agents to carry out the bombing of the Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) Boeing 747 flight PA 103 . |
| 27 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 28 | Most Christians today believe that Jesus feeds ' his people in the Eucharistic celebration ( The feeding of the 5000 ) . |
| 29 | Christians today believe that Jesus has the authority to forgive sins . |
| 30 | Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course . |