Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many animals take this even further : creatures as different from each other as salmon and pigeons may even navigate by smell , detecting minute changes in the concentration of certain chemicals in the water or odours wafting through the air . |
| 2 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 3 | The accused is not guilty of that offence if force or threat of force is not used at the time of the theft . |
| 4 | It was a tradition that Edwin should frame all my father 's work but his death made that impossible in this instance so Francis returned the picture . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover the pattern is as individual to each animal as fingerprints are to a person . |
| 6 | But few sportsmen or coaches could be more explicit on this point than Haringey 's sprinter John Skeets : ‘ It 's part of our make-up , physically and mentally . ’ |
| 7 | Some children may be submissive to this approach while others fight back and will not have their willpower broken . |
| 8 | Still , there may be more working against that film than Schnabel 's will to direct it . |
| 9 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 10 | Clearly all things worked together for good in this family where friction was as rare as in a well-oiled machine . |
| 11 | Antihistamines tend to cause drowsiness , but some are better in this respect than others ( see p 316 ) . |
| 12 | Certain sectors are more vulnerable to this process than others . |
| 13 | However , as figure 6.4 shows there was actually a small increase in the number of births to parents from social classes I and II over this period while births to parents in social classes III-V declined . |
| 14 | The examples are not always abstract ballets , because the three aspects described above are applicable to most choreography if music and dance are to be equal partners in a ballet . |
| 15 | It is difficult not to agree with Nossal that such wastefulness is inherent in any system where consumer pressures predominate and is one of the less happy faces of market economics . |
| 16 | Delayed gastric emptying is not responsible for this finding since octreotide , in contrast with somatostatin , slightly accelerates gastric emptying of a mixed meal . |
| 17 | A SKIING holiday is for those with more money than sense , giving you the chance to meet a lot of people you could meet at home for nothing . |
| 18 | Experiences that inhibit us as learners can be just as important in this respect as experiences that help . |
| 19 | But Charlie , seriously , and I mean this , you 've got to make your own life , and it must be a married life because I 'll be stuck in that house until Emma is old enough to look after herself . |
| 20 | Video 's role now can be to provide the variety , interest and stimulation which are very important at this stage when motivation is often beginning to wane . |
| 21 | Ninety-one per cent of people asked to demonstrate certain movements or activities were content with or indifferent about this aspect while 5% were not happy . |
| 22 | The historian was at his best , he maintained , not as an analyst but as ‘ a craftsman of synthesis , a weaver of other men 's threads ( and some of his own ) into patterns which they had not foreseen or even suspected ’ ; and he was forthright in claiming , at a time when it was not fashionable , that the contemporary historian was just as capable of such synthesis as historians of earlier centuries . |
| 23 | Competition between institutions will also be apparent in this sector as universities strive to attract more students and more funds . |
| 24 | Male dogs tend to be worse in this respect than bitches , because they are naturally more dominant within a pack . |
| 25 | Kirsch is a good addition , but I am not as crazy about this combination as Europe seems to be ; orange of any kind is much better . |
| 26 | First-class stockmen are considerably more common in this country than capitalists in Russia but , even with their expert help , total freedom for commercial animals shares many problems with the unbridled competition of free trade in the market place . |
| 27 | Charles was amused by this story when Robyn rang him up later that evening . |
| 28 | Grandcourt is Sir Hugo Mallinger 's nephew and his heir , but they are ethically as distant from each other as Disraeli 's Lord Mamey is from his Mr Lyle . |
| 29 | Its high resistance to detonation allows high compression ratios to be used and thus offers potential for more power than petrol ; little or not particulate emissions come out the exhaust pipe and CO 2 production is relatively low . |
| 30 | Feminists are more aware of this ambiguity than psychologists are of their similarly ambiguous position . |