Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused is not guilty of that offence if force or threat of force is not used at the time of the theft . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clearly all things worked together for good in this family where friction was as rare as in a well-oiled machine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Delayed gastric emptying is not responsible for this finding since octreotide , in contrast with somatostatin , slightly accelerates gastric emptying of a mixed meal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Also active at this time as receiver of Admiralty droits in Sussex , he was restored to the commission in 1628 . |