Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The similarities with a number of recent ethnic/nationalist phenomena are evident , especially where these are themselves linked with , or seek to re-establish links with , a group-specific religious faith — as among ( Christian ) Armenians opposing ( Muslim ) Azeri Turks , or in the recent and markedly Old Testament phase of Likud Zionism in Israel . |
| 2 | In the Dili area that winter , there were 300 Europeans and 5,000 native villagers working on their sweet potato , pineapple , and peanut plots or in the larger and more ordered government plantations on higher ground where crops of rice , maize , and coffee grew . |
| 3 | The peace in the harbour area was undisturbed , except for the insistent and mildly annoying buzz of flies . |
| 4 | Most building materials are porous to some extent , although in a well-designed and properly maintained building the absorbed moisture can evaporate harmlessly to the outside . |
| 5 | Some mutations , however , permit the fly to survive , although in an altered and normally less adaptive state . |
| 6 | The Qumran Psalms Scroll has proved that in the second or even first century B.C. the collection of the Psalms was still open to modifications . |
| 7 | The command hierarchy in such an enterprise may be more clearly structured , and responsibilities better delimited , than in a smaller and more informal partnership . |
| 8 | It locates bureaucracy in a class context rather than in a constitutional or even institutional context . |
| 9 | On the other end of the childbearing period , infant mortality in the maternal age group 40 years and over is also very high ; in the 39 WFS countries about 24 per cent higher than in the 30–39 and about 30 per cent higher than in the 20–29 maternal age groups . |
| 10 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 11 | In translating from a language such as Arabic to a language such as English , the unmarked predicator + subject structure would normally be translated by an equally unmarked structure such as subject + predicator rather than by an identical but highly marked structure which places the predicator in initial position . |
| 12 | But it was also an explicitly Christian spirit — unfortunate therefore for the four thousand Jews and for the tiny but now increasing numbers of Hindus , Buddhists , Muslims , and Taoists . |
| 13 | Diamonds on the other hand were too hard , and during the Classical and Early Medieval periods could only be mounted as natural crystals , in which guise they served as symbols of hardness and strength , but not yet as signs of conspicuous wealth . |
| 14 | The Board took the view that it was not in the national interest that such complete information about the whole nation should be in private hands and after a prolonged and bitterly fought legal battle it won — ensuring the perpetual hostility of Readers Digest the world over to any suggestion of data protection thereafter . |
| 15 | In the search for alternatives , eyes are turning away from faraway galaxies and towards the nearest and most humdrum piece of astrophysics : the sun . |
| 16 | Dave has spent some 20 years researching this fascinating subject and of the 1,000 or so entries there is a wealth of detail — much of which will be brand new to the reader and possibly just down the road ! |
| 17 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 18 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 19 | She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system . |
| 20 | ‘ With respect , ’ said Earl Robert , standing courteously aloof , and in the mildest and most reasonable of voices , ‘ how should we determine who should be first to try the fates ? |
| 21 | Measures to promote more flexible forms of retirement — at a range of ages and on a part-time as well as full-time basis — and to outlaw age discriminatory employment and redundancy practices would therefore be an essential part of this strategy . |
| 22 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 23 | This was precipitated by a House of Commons debate , marked by calculating and outrageous invective by Churchill , and by a less than usually effective speech from Baldwin . |
| 24 | This stance was rejected by extremist elements in the military , and by the richest and most right-wing families who had been the most fervent supporters of the coup . |
| 25 | The development and passage of legislation was aided throughout by the location of the Victoria state parliament in the state 's one major centre of population and by an effective and well advised all party parliamentary road safety committee that drafted the legislation and minimised partisan divisions . |
| 26 | The path up the gully from Bridge of Orchy is certainly the shortest route to the two peaks , but for a longer and more spectacular walk there is a deliciously tempting circuit round the back of the mountains via Auch Gleann . |
| 27 | It also suggests why ‘ interdisciplinarity ’ may occur not simply at the notional boundaries of contiguous disciplines , but as a subtle and often unpredictable flow of information and influence from one part of the model to another . |
| 28 | It treated its subject not as some kind of jokey aberration , but as a normal if slightly unexpected development of the weird and wonderful adventure we call Life . |
| 29 | But amongst the easier and more obvious structures to count are the dendritic spines , and a graduate student of Mike 's , Sanjay Patel , did just that in the mid-1980s . |
| 30 | A Liverpool friend remembered him as ‘ a tall spare man with alert eyes and a very beautiful voice , but with an ironic and often unkind humour about his contemporaries ’ . |