Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggested poverty as both a cause and a rational reason for crime . |
| 2 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 3 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 4 | Er and this of course er became er er a major domestic political crisis as well a difficult military situation , a difficult one to win . |
| 5 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 6 | I had got to the stage with one particular chair when even a mallet and chisel was being limited by the design . |
| 7 | But over the eight drafts , what emerged was a particular vision of the whole penal system as almost a plot by the higher powers to perpetuate the whole system of crime , keep it rolling , keep criminals on the streets … ‘ |