Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 2 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 3 | Few researchers who use this method regularly will not have doubted , at one time or other , that these assumptions are not always met . |
| 4 | Dark ages ; but there are a few performers who take these pieces seriously , and their beacons light the path for others to follow . |
| 5 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 6 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 7 | For a few minutes he remained silent and she wondered where the bright start to the day had gone . |
| 8 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 9 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 10 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 11 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 12 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 13 | or in some cases you get two intermediate routes |
| 14 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 15 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 16 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 17 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 18 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 19 | The means-tested payment for home helps meant that some clients who needed such help were refusing it because they had to pay for it . |
| 20 | Yeah I mean I 'm definitely gon na put some words I think that |
| 21 | Well with us we have some gentlemen who believe that bald is not best , |
| 22 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 23 | While there is some obvious truth in this , there are also some ambiguities which need careful consideration . |
| 24 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 25 | In some respects she resisted that influence and in others succumbed to it . |
| 26 | The few Marxists who devoted serious attention to the problem of nationality and nationalism — above all , Otto Bauer and Karl Renner — also approached it from a class standpoint . |
| 27 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |
| 28 | And there are few effects which require more time or effort to achieve . |
| 29 | Although in some trials we noted post-randomisation exclusion of ineligible patients , early deaths , and protocol violations , we did not exclude them . |
| 30 | There are some texts which break this rule — W. S. Gilbert 's for the Savoy Operas and the books of Broadway Musicals , such as those by Lorenz Hart , Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin . |