Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 2 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 3 | and also for taxation is very sort of there 's one chapter which quite sort of |
| 4 | Intentions are infamous for getting put into action less frequently than plans simply because intentions leave a yawning gap which only plans can bridge . |
| 5 | For one thing , they feel the functionalist approach does not only neglect change and conflict but tends to ‘ reify ’ society — to treat it as a thing — by attributing to social structures capacities for thought and purposive action which only humans can possess . |
| 6 | James has been kindness itself all day . |
| 7 | I 'm not trying to make it hard for you , I 'm trying to work out what is useful for you , cos it 's no good you just sort of more or less copying it out . |
| 8 | my Lord that that 's with respect right , erm certainly what , what he says that does n't necessarily lead to that conclusion all it does is have void what maybe authority between |
| 9 | Palmerston wound up the debate with a forthright speech , which hardly seems to justify Scott 's later remark that it contained ‘ a quantity of poor buffoonery which only Lord P. 's age permits ’ . |
| 10 | He drove the horsebox himself yesterday morning back to his base at Brandsby in North Yorkshire . |
| 11 | ‘ A confidential report of some kind which only PKB customers should have seen . ’ |
| 12 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 13 | Good afternoon , welcome to a course which hopefully system that we have here . |
| 14 | Thus , the first 18 amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America , passed immediately upon its adoption , constitute the ‘ Bill of Rights ’ and contain , for example , guarantees of freedom of speech and due process of law which neither Congress nor even the president can override . |
| 15 | Good connections with a minister would be advantageous to any political interest , for freeholders and councillors often requested assistance which only government could provide . |
| 16 | Go through it to a track on the edge of the wood which then forks left up away from the edge of the wood to a clearing and then on to a second gate . |
| 17 | Therefore , every time a Forest Goblin shaman fails a Waaagh Test he automatically staggers D6″ in a random direction . |
| 18 | Of the four Constitutions , Dei Verbum is the most theologically concentrated ; but in its wider relevance it both undergirds and touches most of the Council documents — obviously those on the Church and the liturgy , but also all those with a mainly pastoral thrust . |
| 19 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 20 | So try and remember that I E one when it makes an E sound I before E except after C now that 's going to help you with quite a few words . |
| 21 | This contains 4 pints of very corrosive organic acid which only attacks living or organic items such as wood or leather , but not metal or stone . |
| 22 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 23 | 2 In phonology , the head is that part of a word group which either beings with the stressed syllable of the first accented word , not being the nucleus , and which ends with the syllable immediately preceding the nucleus ; or it may be the pitch pattern associated with that part of a word group . |
| 24 | What we witness here is something resembling the Freudian proposition that the repressed returns via the very images , structures , and mechanisms of repression itself : the words which consummate the renewal of man , his salvation , these words return to signify the opposite of salvation which is damnation , and they signify also the desire which only damnation can acknowledge and which salvation must repress . |
| 25 | Another firm distinction which both Ashton and MacMillan make clear is between the dances of youth and age or innocence and experience . |
| 26 | It was an organic relationship which even anti-democrats like Aristotle endorsed . |
| 27 | We walked on , reaching the Strid , a narrow channel of deep foaming water which spectacularly churns and leaps its way between gritstone ledges worn into weird shapes . |
| 28 | In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of . |
| 29 | Bells hung on the inside which occasionally Ruth , when in residence , would strike . |
| 30 | It 's a service which only Rentokil could offer and supply , with our broad range of experience and skills across a number of hygiene and cleaning activities . ’ |