Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Fortunately , although Johnny and Susan and Harbajahn and Khadijah are individual personalities with a myriad variety of individual differences , they are all recognizably part of the genus homo sapiens , whatever the embattled teacher may sometimes wonder .
2 But last year all food subsidies in Sichuan were abruptly abolished , so part of the Lis ' capital outlay no longer brings them any return .
3 Mr Patten said the 120-clause bill was only part of the Government 's strategy for the environment .
4 But revenge , while it would be sweet , was only part of the government 's reason for ‘ taking on ’ the miners .
5 The services provided by the music business adviser are only part of the union 's total commitment to servicing the needs of today 's musicians .
6 Such notes are usually signed by the buyer 's warehouse staff , who are not necessarily part of the buyer 's purchasing department , and may have no idea of what the requirement under the contract is in relation to the goods .
7 The projectile was imperfectly aimed but exploded in Verdun , smashing down part of the Archbishop 's palace .
8 Indisputably part of the Crown 's personal income were the various feudal dues , paid by those who held land by military tenures .
9 Section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 comes into effect on 1 January 1992 ; so incorporation of a solicitor 's practice will become an additional option .
10 Was all this emotion merely suggestibility to the day 's teaching ?
11 Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) .
12 No form of argument or persuasion is allowed ( eg criticism of the target 's board ) and the buyer ( and its advisers ) may not make any statement or otherwise make public any information in connection with the tender offer which is not already contained in the tender offer advertisement itself .
13 The words were sharp but there was none the less warmth in the queen-dowager 's voice .
14 Far from guarding mystical secrete , however , the transvestite eunuchs running this shrine employ rather more basic method of impregnating their female guests — a sinister twist whose destructive effects only surface after the baby 's birth .
15 Greguric 's replacement would be Hrvoje Sarinic , hitherto Head of the President 's Office .
16 Besides being not untypical , 3½ per cent was a fair enough share of the community 's wealth for the fifty-two secular priests , who formed almost exactly the same proportion of the 1484 adult male inhabitants .
17 Gen. Joao de Matos , hitherto chief of the government 's ground forces , and Gen. Ahilo Camalata Numa , commander of UNITA 's northern front , were sworn in on Nov. 14 as the Supreme Command of Angola 's armed forces .
18 In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make .
19 While the seller is there he is at an advantage over the competition ; thus part of the salesperson 's job is to try to close the sale .
20 Nevertheless , even though having angles equal to two right angles is not part of a triangle 's essence , it is because it is a three-sided plane figure that it has them .
21 Although intelligence in a horse , or lack of it , is also an inherited characteristic , it is not part of a horse 's temperament .
22 ‘ It is not part of a doctor 's work to become involved in brawls , ’ he said firmly .
23 Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ .
24 Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client .
25 Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client .
26 It 's not part of the University 's public service .
27 Here , the aim of the therapeutic intervention is specified in terms of the verbal responses which are considered desirable for a particular child but are as yet not part of the child 's verbal repertoire .
28 Section 24 may also be used by a hotelier who is prosecuted under s.14 where the overbooking was due to the actions or default of the receptionist or reception manager and was not part of the hotelier 's policy .
29 There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge .
30 The De Havilland decision demonstrates in stark form the fact that EC merger control is not part of the Community 's industrial policy , but is competition driven .
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