Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His statue stands in the delightful Place Royale , above the possessive caption of ‘ Lou Nouste Henric ’ , or ‘ Our Henry ’ in the local Gas con patois . |
| 2 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |
| 3 | The dummy is nonetheless a vital element in the scrum-half 's armoury in order to buy that odd half-second of time ; for example , in a scrum where a flanker or scrum-half is set to pounce as the ball lies at the opposing no.8 's feet , a dummy for the no.9 would ( 1 ) remind the players where the off-side line is , and ( 2 ) buy him an extra second of time to distribute the ball , and ( 3 ) avoid potential injury from being flattened by his opponents and , controversially … ( 4 ) earn the chance of a penalty . |
| 4 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 5 | Today , a formal lowering of the male retirement age to 60 has been rejected on grounds of cost , but high rates of unemployment among the 60–64 age-group , together with official encouragement for unemployed men to leave the labour force , amounts to an informal de facto policy of increasing early retirement for men . |
| 6 | Second , he introduced a further equation — a price equation — and found that , as the rational expectations theory predicts , an anticipated rise in monetary growth , of say per cent , leads to an immediate per cent rise in the price level , whereas a similar unpredictable rise in monetary growth leads initially to a less than per cent rise in the price level . |
| 7 | Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur . |
| 8 | Derives from the Latin pomum ambrae meaning ‘ apple of amber ’ . |