Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , works of different kinds can be shown in spiritual unity , just as in a church a fourteenth-century painting is perfectly compatible with a baroque altar . |
| 2 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 3 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 4 | And I 'm sure you 've had a bit of thought about it , I 'm glad you 're see it there er and the whole lot is a blessed mismatch , it 's nothing to do with us though I do thank you Mr for the help you wish to give me , the Duke of Westminster and the Duke of Rutland if this goes through as I said this today because without a doubt the government will listen to what you have to say and I 've no doubt it will be effect . |
| 5 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 6 | They still exchanged gifts and trade with the Emperor ; they still had the interest and friendship of Pope Leo , even though for a year the Pope had been not in Rome but in Germany , caught by the cry for a mediator between attacking Germany and defending Hungary ; pressed by the fighting in Italy to beg help against the triumphant Normans . |
| 7 | It was quite surprising how when in a disaster the whole community pulled together and helped each other out , and there were a fair number of people who really were having problems . |