Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to interpret the results of this experiment as representing anything but evidence of precise specialization of clover clones in their ability to grow in association with particular grass neighbours . |
| 2 | In 1956 , Break found a small net disincentive effect , with an extra 3% of the population claiming higher taxes to be a disincentive to further work than claimed it to be an incentive . |
| 3 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 4 | Conclude : ‘ It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it . ’ |
| 5 | Yet others may deplore British nationalism while taking it for granted that there is some homogeneous group called the British , thus conceding the basic premise for a British nationalism . |
| 6 | This call the lesser chamber because to distinguish it from the greater chamber . |
| 7 | The promise is to achieve economic growth of over 3% this year while fighting everything from hunger and homelessness to tax dodgers and financial speculators . |
| 8 | To everyone 's amazement , she rushed to the defence of the driver who , in ferrying her to and from the course at Cely , had been so late on the second day as to put her in real fear of missing her starting time . |
| 9 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 10 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 11 | If the military do n't use the area often , they can not cause as much distress to the natural environment as opening it to the public would . |
| 12 | This is not necessarily an increase in your workload : drafting and redrafting allows lower-intensity and less stressful work than packing everything into a single and decisive act of composition . |
| 13 | What better way to unwind at the end of a frantic week than treating yourself to an hour or two of pure pampering ? |
| 14 | What better revenge than to disgrace him by rigging a scandal involving the dead man 's daughter , a married woman ? |
| 15 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 16 | Georgina Naylor of the National Heritage Memorial Fund explained that securing the house under the charity was a cheaper solution than placing it with the National Trust and also allowed a greater individuality . |
| 17 | It has got to the stage where it would be cheaper for stockholding booksellers themselves to buy the books from these cheaper sources — they 'd get a better margin than ordering them from the publisher . |
| 18 | These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 20 | I 'll have to watch out with Robert and that lot because telling it to Mr , he 's worried , is it a story and all that lot . |
| 21 | Too often the role is left to a houseproud male or to the women who dig their own grave when entrapping themselves into a traditional duty , by doing it themselves out of resignation . |
| 22 | It was as much a speech to slam eleven years of Conservative government as to promote himself as a statesman , capable of assuming the role of Prime Minister . |
| 23 | It goes without saying that stating the problem is not the same thing as solving it in practice ! |
| 24 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |
| 25 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |
| 26 | In fact , there is general agreement that the country 's leading corporations were increasing overseas employment in other industrial countries ( Chapter 2 , 25–6 ) at the same time as reducing it in Britain . |
| 27 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 28 | It was the one shared walk of the Rambles and I had forgotten the golden rule when introducing someone to the hills , never to stretch them beyond their ability . |
| 29 | To this Lord Reid said that to regulate a person 's existing trade may be a greater restraint than prohibiting him from engaging in a new trade . |
| 30 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |