Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enquiries were made of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic where , however , there was a lengthy waiting list . |
| 2 | The essence of an attractive picture is the quality of the pressing and design rather than the amount of flowers and leaves . |
| 3 | They would sit across one from the other and study hard , for they bet on their games . |
| 4 | It does n't matter — they 're in the wild and breeding successfully , I 'm pleased to say , and that 's all that matters . |
| 5 | Fidelity has a 2 per cent front-end fee and exit charges on a sliding scale — 3 per cent in the first year , 2 per cent in the second , 1 per cent in the third and zero thereafter . |
| 6 | Yes but as I 've I 've seen many a bus coming towards Norwood Gardens goes round the little and back out again . |
| 7 | A chamber-pot is said to be on offer with Mozart on the outside and Salieri inside ; and in the bookshops , serious biographical and analytical works are well hidden under a catch-crop of sugary Mozart nostalgia . |
| 8 | This tendency has persisted on the left and centre-left ever since . |
| 9 | According to this view , the preponderance of large families among the poor and ill-educated only persists today because their demographic transition is not yet complete , their higher fertility being due to unwanted births from poor family planning . |