Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [subord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the minute grubs hatch , they are immediately attracted , through some as yet unidentified sense organs , to the scent of mustard oil emanating from the roots . |
| 2 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 3 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 4 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 5 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 6 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 7 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 8 | These were the first men of less than fully aristocratic background to gain prominence through their merit . |
| 9 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 10 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 11 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |
| 12 | Meanwhile House Party producers Reggie and Warrington Hudlin are preparing a science fiction musical comedy with several as yet unspecified rap artists in starring roles . |
| 13 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 14 | Articulated crampons have a separate front and heel piece linked in some way , and are better for less than totally rigid leather boots and boots with some curve on the front sole . |
| 15 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |
| 16 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
| 17 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 18 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 19 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 20 | Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs . |
| 21 | It seems that the listeners , both black and white , were able to home in on some as yet unidentified aspect of the phonology of these two adolescent boys which identified them as black . |
| 22 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |