Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 2 | Rocktron have noted this and vaulted to the rescue by producing the rather obscurely titled Bass mAxe . |
| 3 | BHC cut the machine in half and put in a central section to carry more cars and passengers . |
| 4 | Two tomatoes cut in half and sprinkled with a little castor sugar . |
| 5 | There were drunken brawls that rolled from one vessel to another and ended with a splash in the cloudy river , or there were glimpses of painted female faces , bodies barely concealed by thin silk shafts . |
| 6 | The radial shields are long and thin , about 3–4 times as long as broad , separated from one another and recessed into the disk . |
| 7 | He heard one Englishman shout at him , as he was thrown to the ground by another and pierced by the halberd on the end of his musket , like a sunfish in a rockpool . |
| 8 | In the standard paradigm the two communicators are seated at a table opposite one another but separated by a screen so as to restrict communication to the verbal channel . |
| 9 | In this context ‘ critical ’ and ‘ rational ’ powers were developed and Goody sees this as connected with the beginnings of religious and natural philosophy and ultimately with science ( ibid . ) . |
| 10 | For example Adrian Thatcher ( 1991 ) takes issue with the emphasis on private individualism which talk of " inwardness " tends to convey , seeing this as based on a radical distinction between what is objective and what is subjective — a distinction which , though very influential since the seventeenth century , is now regarded as mistaken . |
| 11 | It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level . |
| 12 | Must remember this when tempted into the local hen shop. ) 9 pm Ben Frow arrives to try on costumes for Re:Joyce . |
| 13 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 14 | A significant new niche is tantamount to a new SBU and should be recognized as such and brought into the matrix in its proper place . |
| 15 | He did not seem to know how to play , would not settle down , ran about too much and fought with the other children . |
| 16 | Toxic liver injury was defined as such if recorded in the log book of the hospitals . |
| 17 | In 1966 , the Court ruled that a publication which is not obscene might be regarded as such if distributed in a lascivious manner , and in 1968 , that the law 's jurisdiction did not ‘ reach into the privacy of one 's home … [ whereas ] public distribution … might intrude upon the sensibilities or privacy of the general public … ’ . |
| 18 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |
| 19 | But nobody ever so much as hinted at the possibility that she might return . |
| 20 | The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) similarly broods upon the capacity of its own language and structure to contain a reality which can be obscured as much as illumined by the illusions of art . |
| 21 | The café-cum-shop up on the ravishing Col du Soul or in particular has been a wondrous mess on my two ascents there : very dark , immensely cluttered , low ceilinged and lit as much as warmed by a large log fire . |
| 22 | If you so much as parked on a yellow line they stuffed a mortgage application under your windscreen wipers . |
| 23 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 24 | Additional 12mm diameter cutting bits are available for £6.50 each if ordered at the same time as the Wallchaser . |
| 25 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 26 | After she left school she came to London from her home in Yorkshire in order to attend a secretarial college , but abandoned that and enrolled with a secretarial agency . |
| 27 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 28 | It also included the committee 's limit of 15 B-2s , 60 fewer than requested by the Bush administration . |
| 29 | Children can be involved in the design of these and consulted about the sort of games that they would like to have organised for them in break times . |
| 30 | There are 3–4 large irregularly arranged oral papillae ; distal to these and situated within the mouth slit is a series of 3 or 4 smaller papillae . |