Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 3 | The two-layer structure will be stable only if the density of the cool , clear upper layer is less than the bulk density of the sedimenting lower layer . |
| 4 | However , self-build schemes are really possible only where a number of energetic persons , usually young , coincide . |
| 5 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 6 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 7 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 8 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 9 | It certainly seems probable that addictive disease has a genetic element although the strength of that genetic component may vary considerably from one individual to another just as the intensity of short sight or other conditions that are genetically linked may vary in different individuals . |
| 10 | Finally , it is curious that the first two Greek cognomina in Roman onomastics belong to two plebeian consuls : Q. Publilius Philo , consul 339 and 327 B.C. , and P. Sempronius Sophus , consul 304 B.C. Whether the introduction of the Greek cult of Apollo into Rome about 435 was due to plebeian initiative is a question to which there is no answer . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the process of converting names into dealing clients was time-consuming and costly , although it would have been far less economical still if the Department of Trade 's regulations had been properly adhered to . |
| 12 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 13 | I should add that the outcome would have been no different even if the Act of 1985 had applied since Mr. Thomas concedes the time when the cause of action arises must be the same under both Acts . |
| 14 | The many complications seem to preclude this even though the importance of success is as great as ever . |
| 15 | Thus , there are policies which may lie within the present powers of an existing local authority , although these form part of the proper subject of Chapter 10 rather than a discussion of strategy . |
| 16 | These blobs are called sunspots , and they appear dark only because the rest of the Sun is so incandescent : the matter ( or plasma , as it should more correctly be called ) inside a sunspot , if transported to Earth , would give off greater brilliance than any arc-lamp . |
| 17 | The use of such terminology is , however , appropriate only when a relationship between behaviour and contingent events has been empirically demonstrated . |
| 18 | He had been nervous enough when the name of the Twenty-fourthers was first mentioned . |
| 19 | But this face was bigger ; swollen and bigger still than the horror in the car . |
| 20 | The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined . |
| 21 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 22 | This conclusion is controversial ; a legal issue does not cease to be such simply because the term in question is open to a range of possible meanings . |
| 23 | If the Secretary of State has considered a proposed merger and made a decision as to clearance or otherwise in respect of it a fee will also be payable even if no application for clearance has been made . |
| 24 | The net rate of interest payable to you remains fixed even if the level of composite rate tax changes during th course of the Bond . |
| 25 | ‘ Bigger even than the Bank of America . |
| 26 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 27 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 28 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 29 | As part of the denial of their own " family disease " they may believe that they themselves or the way in which they attempt to help others is what is inadequate rather than the capacity of the primary sufferer to receive the message of recovery . |
| 30 | Of course actual authors are dialectically difficult to classify and my examples are fairly arbitrarily drawn , the diagram being illustrative rather than an exercise in exegesis . |