Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these fungi , Phurmomyces for example , are known to occur only on or between the tarsal claws at the tips of the insect 's legs . |
| 2 | This was reflected in admiration for the achievements of the Russian revolution and the Five Year Plans , so that during the interwar years socialist writers such as G. D. H. Cole advocated planning in contradiction to the chaos , irrationality and waste of the capitalist system . |
| 3 | Perhaps because of the coral reefs , as now , there had been no tidal wave but the force of the wind had driven the sea inland , thirty feet deep in Belpan City . |
| 4 | The big surge in investment has been possible only because of the liberalisation policies pursued by the Government . |
| 5 | Granny 's visits to Bowes Road would always be very much appreciated by her little granddaughter Doris , if only because of the teatime treats which would attend such occasions ; as she took the old lady upstairs to dispose of her coat , Doris would whisper : ‘ We 've got blackcurrant pie today because you 're here ; we only ever have it when you come … ’ . |
| 6 | We walked along the dry bed of the Guadalfeo ( ugly ) River : ugly only because of the plastic bags , bottles and other rubbish which had been tipped there . |
| 7 | I could not stick to any diet for very long because of the chocolate cravings . |
| 8 | And especially when in the summer months |
| 9 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 10 | Many young men were attracted to the profession of arms for its own sake , and the excitement and glory of successful war were reasons in themselves for service , but some at least of those who engaged with a captain may have been responding to pressures at home and in the local economy rather than to the material incentives that war offered . |
| 11 | All those rules were for nominal measures — money supply , public spending and borrowing , growth in money GDP — rather than for the volume goals of output , jobs and expenditure that most earlier governments had pursued in vain . |
| 12 | In this typical example of scientific doublespeak , the burden of proof is , as usual , thrown on to conservationists to show that a fishing technique has an unacceptable effect , rather than on the fishing nations to show that the method is ecologically sound . |
| 13 | She refers to the lines joining them as ‘ lines of force ’ , and states that pagans worship the Old Gods on these rather than at the power centres themselves which had tended to have been ‘ exorcized ’ by the Christians by the erection of chapels dedicated to St Michael . |
| 14 | The application for clearance must be made , somewhat anomalously , by Target or Newco rather than by the vendor shareholders who wish to benefit from the capital gains tax deferral . |
| 15 | The general secretary of the railway union is elected by the federal congress rather than by the railway delegates alone , and there is a growing concern to concentrate policy-making at federal level . |
| 16 | Because the activity is taking place in London , rather than in the home countries of the currencies in question , the markets are referred to as Euromarkets . |
| 17 | As a procedural matter , the Court of Appeal determined that the inhabitants should bring their case in the High Court of the Trust Territory rather than in the District Courts of the United States , and rejected the claim . |
| 18 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 19 | Once again the trade unions working individually and through the trade unions for Labour pulled out all the stops to try and secure a Labour victory . |
| 20 | I was firmly in the present , watching the starlings cavort over and under the telegraph wires and the wind shimmer the young leaves into a muzzy Monet . |
| 21 | Yes the best if there was a dry time a dry stack , they kept that very best but for the calf beds , both for the bothy and the house . |
| 22 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , withdrew England 's application for the clubs to be allowed back into Europe largely because of the way incidents involving English fans , the Dusseldorf police and young Germans looking for trouble had been reported by the press and TV back home . |
| 23 | It was a machine particularly suited to the fast production of newspapers , and as has already been noted , women were not employed in the composition of daily papers , largely because of the Factory Acts . |
| 24 | Largely because of the tax gains , but also the increased freedom it gives to the pensioner , many pension schemes have provision for allowing part of the value of the pension to be capitalized on retirement . |
| 25 | ‘ Even though the property market has had its problems and tenants are n't as thick on the ground as normal , a number have looked at CADCAM but gone elsewhere because of the traffic problems , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Just as with the predicate qualifiers , the occupation by postverbals of a syntactic position more commonly taken by an adverb seems to accord well with the fact that a favoured form for questioning them is how ? , unless pre-empted by a question based on pragmatic categories such as what colour ? . |
| 27 | Yet despite the impressive cycle/pedestrian routes marked within and through the development sites , the Local Plan shows no overall strategy , ie network , of routes . |
| 28 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 29 | Investment trusts are regulated by the rules of the Companies Acts , which lay down requirements with respect to number of shareholders , form of financial accounts , constitutional structure , etc. and by the listing requirements of the Stock Exchange ( see above ) . |
| 30 | Parliament could , either directly or through the Local Authorities , implement what the public as a whole demanded . |