Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [noun pl] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern ceremony contains only vestiges of the original Latin in such phrases as in absentia , for candidates graduating in their absence and honoris causa , applied to honorary degrees . |
| 2 | He is always talking about style : he has yet words of the absurdest that occur in every page , bland , delicate , dainty ; one blushes to read them . ’ |
| 3 | It conjures up images of the old Nimble bread adverts with the girl in the balloon , or the bit in The Snowman where the kid flies over the coast . |
| 4 | The central action revolves around persons of the same sex and figures of speech having the same gender reference as they themselves . |
| 5 | Samuel 's argument uses the example of ‘ nation ’ , which he points out historians of the left have shied away from either as a subject of study or as a symbolic category . |
| 6 | As Reinhard Drifte has observed , ‘ Here for the first time , the idea of a Japan-US security treaty emerges along lines of the actual treaty of 1951 . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , their everyday life constantly brings about reminders of the metropolitan life . |