Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this attempt by Fabians and New Liberals to conjoin ethical and evolutionary considerations that led to the most sustained criticism of their theories . |
| 2 | She gained medals and prizes which enabled her , at age 15 , to go to Paris where she was accepted into the free Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied under the most eminent French artists and sculptors . |
| 3 | It was , however , only a brief-lived aberration if compared with the more complete Victorian revival which happened later . |
| 4 | With the signing of two financial agreements with Algeria on May 2 , Italy was confirmed as one of Algeria 's main commercial partners — a policy said to provide endorsement for Hamrouche 's reform programme and to contrast with the more cautious attitude of France , Algeria 's most important trading partner . |
| 5 | The problem for any intelligence agency , East or West , is whether to take a politician at his word when he is publicly declaring a desire for greater friendship and understanding with the very same people against whom the covert operation is intended . |
| 6 | Was it a creature like a sea squirt which gave rise to the more mobile lancelet-like form by producing descendants that abandoned the stationary condition and reproduced during the hitherto larval stage ? |
| 7 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 8 | I was glad the well had been Christianized , as Michael Quirke himself could scarcely go on his knees and pray to the rascally old gods he so admired . |
| 9 | It was packed , further proof that dance music is now threatening to displace rock and pop as the most popular live musical entertainment in Glasgow . |
| 10 | Whitby is worth minor discomfort , however , and we quickly clambered down the 199 steps and strolled around the endlessly fascinating harbour and backstreets . |
| 11 | The Franks have been up mountains and down valleys , floated around idyllic lakes and cruised through the staggeringly beautiful ( see The Prisoner -meets-Brothers Grimm ) town of Salzburg , they 've even mimed in a restaurant hall which provides the definitive ‘ Sound Of Music Dinner Show ’ , during which tourists can dine on ‘ cream-coloured ponies ’ . |
| 12 | The words we use , though they have a central core of meaning that is relatively fixed , have a fringe of uncertainty when applied to the infinitely variable facts of experience . |
| 13 | These societies may have comprised small political units and low population densities when compared with the more concentrated areas of consumption discussed above . |
| 14 | Then to our surprise he produced CAST IRON plate ‘ No. 2 ’ off Carlisle , and if that were not enough , the wooden trespass board that appears in the well known photograph of ‘ No. 1 ’ near Horderley . |
| 15 | The ‘ new ’ socialist criminology that emerged from the more politically conscious branch of 1960s interactionism brought this dilemma once again to the forefront . |
| 16 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 17 | At one level this is what happens when we refine our perception of concepts such as ‘ insects ’ ( from which everything small that creeps or crawls to the more precise ‘ creatures with six legs and bodies consisting of three elements : body , thorax , and head ’ ) or ‘ the Victorian age ’ , or ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 18 | They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep . |
| 19 | Accepted in sensitive areas and regarded by the most discerning specifiers as the finest handmade tile on the market . |
| 20 | Yes , well , I particularly welcome this erm concentration on areas , I think it 's an excellent idea , particularly in relation to housing , I think what we will find interesting is that a whole number of Oxford citizens , perhaps indeed from Barton , Blackbird Leys , Marston originally , who are badly housed in these areas and waiting in the most appalling accommodation for the opportunity of a council home . |
| 21 | He agreed that they could disembark at Peterborough and wait for the 2.30pm train . |
| 22 | I suggest that we proceed along those lines and look for the most economic way to alleviate my constituents ' problems while not doing too much damage to my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 23 | Agatha ignored Fidelma and returned to the much more worrying matter of Timothy 's encounter with a chit called Topaz Chilcott . |
| 24 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 25 | Four of the shops in the group opened on Monday 28th December and shared in the apparently rich pickings to be had that day . |
| 26 | It 's all very complicated and there 's a lot of stuff about original ‘ round ’ core as opposed to the more modern ‘ hex ’ core , and something about wrap wire being able to move around a round core , and the wrap stretching on tuning and just the core moving through the nut , and the smaller space available for gunk to gather , and a heck of a lot more besides . |
| 27 | Mark asked him how he could reconcile his views with what was clearly Britain s basic needs ; the need to maintain a strong manufacturing base as a defence capability ; the need to correct a massive and worsening trade deficit on manufactured products ; and the need to provide talented school-leavers with creative career opportunities in the manufacturing sector as designers , physicists , chemists and engineers as opposed to the more mundane jobs in the service sector as warehousemen and handlers of other countries ' goods . |
| 28 | Before we go into the issues there , I notice that you appear to favour the dry-roasted peanuts as opposed to the more conventional variety of salted peanuts . |
| 29 | It can pass its calm temperament to its offspring when crossed with the more excitable Africander and Brahman . |
| 30 | People who live , work , play and die in the more remote rural places like Baldersdale are distanced from the rest of us , and not just in the geographic sense . |