Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is quite possible that at this pH range there is a mixture of gastric acid and duodenal alkaline juices which may be damaging ( with toxic synergism ) to the oesophageal mucosa , but this can not be assessed using the parameter of pH . |
| 2 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |
| 3 | Thus ( 61 ) will be true , on this account , just in case there is some reference time ( say , another event ) prior to CT , such that at that reference time , ( 62 ) would have been true ( while ( 62 ) is in turn true , just in case ( 63 ) would have been true at some point prior to the CT of ( 62 ) ) : ( 6z ) John had seen Mary ( 62 ) John saw Mary ( 63 ) John sees Mary But such M-tenses do not match up simply with L-tenses , for L-tenses nearly always encode additional aspectual and modal features too ( see Comrie , 1976a ; Lyons , 1977a : 703ff , 809ff ) . |
| 4 | Margaret Irwin reported in 1894 that in one Edinburgh firm the piece rate was 6¾d per 1000 for a man , 3d to 5d for a woman ; in another , men got 6½d , women 4½jd to 5d . |
| 5 | It was explained in Chapter 7 that in certain contexts no is pronounced , but the theory mentioned in the last sentence would claim that at an abstract level there is a phoneme , though in certain contexts the is not actually pronounced . |
| 6 | It is not impossible that on this sea voyage he was accompanied by Panaetius , who , according to a very fragmentary and dubious passage of the index Stoicorum , apparently travelled by sea with Scipio at about this time ( col. 56 , ed . |
| 7 | It is noticeable that from this time wagon services between London and the Midlands did not expand as did those to other parts of the country . |
| 8 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 9 | In the early sixteenth century the prices of essential goods rose more sharply than those of inessentials , and at the same time wage differentials increased again , so it is likely that by this date population was rising again , and that as real wages declined a higher proportion of them was being spent on essential goods and less on luxuries . |
| 10 | It is also likely that in some cases syntax is influenced by the controlled access of particular lexical items — the desire to convey certain items of information earlier , rather than later , in an utterance . |
| 11 | It is quite obvious that in many cases health and safety can not be bolted on , as an afterthought , to the basic design . |
| 12 | Even in terms of their own theoretical approach , it is surely obvious that in many respects stratification is dysfunctional , producing many negative and damaging social consequences . |
| 13 | ‘ While it is almost inevitable that in any money laundering activity a credit or financial institution will be involved , ’ FRAG says , ‘ there is a much lower probability of an accountant being involved … |
| 14 | Mr Threlfall , who has promised an investigation , said it was inevitable that in some cases response times were longer . |
| 15 | Ray Fletcher , the personnel manager at Rover 's Swindon plant and Graham Spaull , the training manager , are concerned that to many youngsters engineering means long hours , tedious jobs and dirty hands . |
| 16 | It is quite evident that in some areas farming has become a distinctly precarious occupation but , in exchanging the effects of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy for the need to produce results in a rugby field , Hare may find that he has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 17 | An early decree ordered the destruction of heathen temples ; and the pressure of Westernisation was so relentless and meticulous that at one stage male Christians could be fined for urinating in the oriental , crouched position . |
| 18 | It should now be apparent that for any rights theory to be capable of satisfactorily addressing the broader problems which now confront our traditional representative institutions it will need to transcend the essentially liberal principles which lie at the heart of Dworkin 's thesis . |
| 19 | It is notable that in eastern England cremation is the preponderant burial rite and if cremation took place near the settlement it would be more practical to take the remains to a distant cemetery . |
| 20 | For this reason , it 's not surprising that in some careers friendship blossoms between people taking the same path . |
| 21 | Thomas Law reported in 1896 that in one Lancashire town the local Council nominated nine men for election to eleven vacancies on the Board of Guardians and all nine were elected . |