Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , however extended , the basic process of writing and printing retained at least some elements of mediation . |
| 2 | None of the television which Boy watched for so many hours made sense in a conventional way , because he watched television as if it was one continuous programme . |
| 3 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |
| 4 | Most people who have looked at the matter have concluded that deterrence played at least some part in the process . |
| 5 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 6 | Jenna had never heard her own name said with so much accusation and all she could do was nod her head , words sticking in her throat at the blast of displeasure in the dark voice . |
| 7 | Eventually we began to feel that the Inspector had at least some leanings towards our point of view . |
| 8 | His friend vows steadfastness in friendship , but repeats his warning : his illness came from too much study , and he should n't do it again . |
| 9 | Started in 1979 as an amateur effort to amuse and impress his friends , Viz 's lavatorial schoolboy humour appealed to so many people that the Newcastle-based cult comic grew into Britain 's third highest selling magazine . |
| 10 | Although the scores of The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker followed Petipa 's explicit orders that each item consisted of so many bars of one tempo and time signature and as to what it was supposed to represent , Tchaikovsky did demonstrate how ballet music could be developed symphonically by using the leitmotifs . |
| 11 | It was no good , her brain seemed like so much candy-floss . |
| 12 | The patient had at least some colour now . |
| 13 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |
| 14 | Mr Annesley 's strongly-worded statement came as the agreement ran into yet another patch of stormy weather , with Dublin taking exception to remarks made by Peter Brooke , the Northern Ireland Secretary , about the Ulster Defence Regiment . |