Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 2 | Hammam said Jones was a Sheffield United player at the time the video was compiled and that Wimbledon were unjustly being made to suffer because of the suspended sentence . |
| 3 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 4 | If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency . |
| 5 | He pulled on the goggles but still there was nothing to see except for the red embers of a dying fire emanating from some unknown source . |
| 6 | At the strategic level of integrating the territories into the Israeli economy , the competitive edge of Israel 's highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in industry and agriculture destroyed the Palestinian sector almost in its entirety — although there was not an enormous amount to destroy because of the Jordanian legacy of economic neglect . |
| 7 | DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley travelled to London today to urge the Commons to adjourn because of the recent bombings . |
| 8 | Muir , whose company has been involved in major retail construction projects throughout Scotland for eight years , said that the method was perhaps rather unorthodox , but was highly successful in keeping the overall contract time up to scratch because of the earlier unforeseen delays caused by the original steel fabricating company going into receivership . |
| 9 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |
| 10 | It will be interesting to see if in the long term the claims that this product prevents damage to valve seats etc. from using leadfree fuel are true . |
| 11 | Cecil King , Daily Mirror chairman , preferred ‘ to wait until after the second bankruptcy ’ . |
| 12 | Only 5 per cent of women want a child within the first year , and 12 per cent prefer to wait until after the fifth year of marriage . |
| 13 | A 54 hour working week was to remain until after the 1914–18 war , when , on l January l919 , a 47 hour week was introduced . |
| 14 | Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others . |
| 15 | Conversely the make-up girls had less to do than in the black-and-white days . |
| 16 | The subsequent improvement in the balance of payments clearly owed something to devaluation but its effect is impossible to disentangle because of the general improvement in world markets . |
| 17 | I mean , I am not playing with words when I say this , but it wo n't improve as fast as we would have liked it to do because of the financial situation . |
| 18 | These systems worked well but were very difficult to justify because of the high cost of the equipment and low value of the savings ( being mostly space savings from removing filing cabinets ) . |
| 19 | Prussia was the weakest of the victorious powers in 1815 , and posed no threat to Britain , as France seemed to do when in the 1860s Napoleon III appeared to be following the ambitions of Napoleon I , and contemplating invasion . |
| 20 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |
| 21 | In the mid-eighteenth century the linen industry made its appearance , though power looms had to wait till after the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution . |
| 22 | He would educate himself — fast ; and there was no better place to start than with the sorry tale of Freddie Laker . |
| 23 | The supervisor can aid and abet the earner to drive while over the prescribed limit etc . |
| 24 | She 's never asked me to go since before the big holidays . |
| 25 | The yearly catch of sand-eels rose to a peak of 52,000 tonnes in 1982 , but then began to decline until in the present season only some 2,000 tonnes were landed . |
| 26 | The development value of St. Andrews square bus station is extremely difficult to assess because in the last year alone commercial property values in the centre of Edinburgh have literally doubled . |
| 27 | If people 's payments for the good are related to their individual demand curves everyone has an incentive to lie because of the free-rider problem . |
| 28 | Where movement is a major element in a scene , such as in a shot of a passing vehicle , a diagonal composition is generally the most effective and pleasing to watch because of the increased illusion of depth . |
| 29 | Nowhere is it easier to blackmail than in the criminal underworld and the grey areas of conduct that surround it . |
| 30 | The punching elbow must be flexed before it can be extended fully , and any attempt to strike with a semi-extended arm is sure to fail because of the obvious weakness of the technique . |