Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 2 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 3 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 4 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 5 | He made clear that he agreed with the thrust of all the other recommendations , except the one which said that responsibility for food should remain within the Department of Agriculture . |
| 6 | To begin with the efficacy of parliamentary control , it is clear that it suffers from the federal constitution itself : the intricacy of policy decisions , complex inter-governmental decision-making structures at the national , sub-national and supranational level , and the inherent complexity of new policy areas , have all made parliamentary scrutiny more difficult . |
| 7 | That evening Wycliffe 's after-dinner walk took him once more to Newlyn , but it was a fine evening and still light so he continued along the coast road , past the stone quarries , to Mousehole . |
| 8 | In the torrid heat of the afternoon the village seemed deserted so I hammered on an iron gate . |
| 9 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 10 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 11 | They ended in a pair of green bronze doors , each so high that they disappeared into the gloom . |
| 12 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 13 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 14 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 15 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 16 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 17 | Erm , it would seem sensible if we look across the whole commission to try and even things out . |
| 18 | It has nothing to do with the plight of the unemployed and everything to do with the power and desire for further power of the Trade Union Movement . |
| 19 | This service is free if you go to a justice of the peace ) . |
| 20 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 21 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 22 | NOTE Because ears are so sensitive , it is very painful if you shout in the ear of someone whose aid is switched on . |
| 23 | Yeah actually , I 'd be interested if someone sitting on the planning committee , or perhaps a director erm , yeah or perhaps you could tell me , er , why why if the planning committee members are so concerned about this , did they grant the planning permission ? |
| 24 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 25 | If you come out of our , out of a swimming pool and you 're wet and you stand on the side and you 're beginning to get cold , what 's your body reaction , what do you do ? |
| 26 | She would not travel on the underground or in an aeroplane , and felt panicky if she went into a department store and was too far from the door or windows . |
| 27 | now he passed that on , that had , sort of knowledge on through the people in the shop okay , if you , soon as that link gets broken and you go into a shop something like erm Burtons okay , big retail shop like Burtons , you go in there you 'll have a manager in there and assistants and so on , but their background knowledge has nothing to do with tailoring , nothing at all |
| 28 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 29 | Well , things are different if you live in the Gorgie-Dalry area of Edinburgh — or at least , they were until recently . |
| 30 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |