Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 . |
| 2 | Some courts in such circumstances will mark the court record so that further applications are brought to the district judge 's notice before any action is taken in the court office . |
| 3 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 4 | ‘ We always get a few walk-outs with that scene , ’ Tarantino grins . |
| 5 | A few clubs with all the money and all the best players . |
| 6 | And on the Jimmy Young Show , as the news of Telecom 's unannounced increase in charges was discussed : ‘ Well , said Jimmy , brightly , ‘ let's take some calls on this issue and the first one is Mrs so-and-so from whatnot … ’ and , yes you 've guessed it , what did Mrs so-and-so from whatnot have to say ? |
| 7 | Right , we 'll take some calls after this , starting with Humphrey from Kew , David from Pinner and Bob from Edgeware . |
| 8 | Want some herbs in these so |
| 9 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 10 | However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 . |
| 11 | Let us try setting some adjectives of this type into ordinary sentences : ( 34 ) our future chairman smokes heavily Lorraine showed herself a real friend Charlie 's old school has some fine pictures The obvious points may be made : the " chairman " is already alive , there need be no doubt about Lorraine 's existence , and Charlie 's school may be relatively new . |
| 12 | In other words , there are differences of degree in immoral conduct ; some acts within this category may be classed as immoral liberties , since not specifically punishable by law . |
| 13 | She is no longer merely a ‘ bimbo , ’ as designated by some experts on this sort of thing — Beaumont , Douglas and Rose . |
| 14 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 15 | Few copies of these gems travelled further than Gedge 's bedroom . |
| 16 | Er , we 're getting quite a few calls on that subject now , John from Erith , good morning to you John . |
| 17 | Curiously , there are few parallels for this , a natural enough way of making an opera , when the librettist and composer are dealing with a narrative not already shaped into theatrical scenes . |
| 18 | Following this expressivist logic , if a group is unable to objectify its interests in certain domains it may attempt to create its own cultural forms in some other field , although some groups without any resources are bereft of both power and prospects in virtually all spheres . |
| 19 | Some groups within both have protested at the homogenization of different histories , cultures , needs , aspirations and trajectories of migration and settlement , implied in the use of the singular category . |
| 20 | ‘ I bet you tell some whoppers to all your lovers . |
| 21 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 22 | You will get you will get some notes on this . |
| 23 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
| 24 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 25 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 26 | She spun a few yarns on that count , as well . ’ |
| 27 | ( She thought : I must n't forget to sing a few notes in that direction … ) |
| 28 | And do some graphs on that . |
| 29 | There were few conflicts within this rural society : the conflict lay between the towns and the country . |
| 30 | There are some dangers in such an approach . |