Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As seen from the United States both Japan and western Europe welcomed the American deregulatory tide of 1975 onwards as offering a freer flow into the US market . |
| 2 | Lord Justice went on , quote , I agree with this indeed when making the calculations the judge had to make , those who die early are the only ones which matter because the fact of living longer than the expectation is immaterial . |
| 3 | Foucault argues that a whole series of movements since the nineteenth century , including various anthropologizing Marxisms , have developed complicitly with this so as to preserve the sovereignty of the subject against Marx 's and others ' decentrings : positivism , the Hegelian Marxism of Lukács , the Marxist humanism of Sartre , as well as various theories of cultural totalities such as that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 4 | ‘ I think she 's got the attribute that every good cook should have — if you can do a few things really well , stay with those rather than attempt the impossible . ’ |
| 5 | Pilots had little faith in the system and kept their heads and height down , preferring to risk prosecution by the CAA for low-flying rather than run the risk of killing themselves and another crew . |
| 6 | Or we might compare the way Philip II kept Phokis intact in 346 rather than make a present of it to Thebes . |
| 7 | Ninety per cent of debtors paid up in 1979 rather than tolerate the presence of the malodorous individual in reception for another five minutes . |
| 8 | We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University . |
| 9 | 2 Locational decisions are taken in general so as to minimise the frictional effects of distance . |
| 10 | The boots were very comfortable from new even when wearing a single pair of walking socks . |
| 11 | We shall return to this shortly when seeking a measure of infinitesimal strain . |
| 12 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 13 | The aim of structural fire precautions is to limit the spread of fire within the building or from one building to another so as to minimize the risk to life . |
| 14 | Yalta was condemned by many afterwards as marking a Western betrayal of eastern Europe , as grave as Munich in 1938 : Roosevelt , in his eagerness to secure world peace , was duped , it was said , by Stalin . |