Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is further argued that , in the case of those who are mentally frail , they may no longer be capable of exercising informal consent or its converse — refusal ; and that resistance to leaving their own home may sometimes be as much about fear of the unknown as love of the familiar . |
| 2 | The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress . |
| 3 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 4 | Surrealist photography indeed developed techniques that self-consciously played upon this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 5 | Surrealist photographers indeed developed techniques which self-consciously addressed this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 6 | The profile of the sphincter after operation did not differ significantly from the profile before operation in either group of patients . |
| 7 | This has been capped by the well publicised current appearance of no less than Rain Man ( Warner ) for sale ( £14.99 ) as well as for rent , when hitherto the two spheres have tacitly been regarded as mutually exclusive . |
| 8 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 9 | This view of acting behaviour as no more than role function has taken us a long time to understand . |
| 10 | ‘ The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt in the thirties when farming was n't paying . |
| 11 | Above the usual Fraggle style , the leaping around and smiling a lot stage presence , the Northampton four-piece have a frontman with a larger than life aura akin to Perry Farrell and Miles Hunt . |
| 12 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 13 | Their pessimism comes amid estimates that cereal production could reach almost 190m tonnes by the end of the '90s unless action is taken , warns the European Commission , following forecasts drawn up by officials in Brussels . |
| 14 | For this is the Tetley Bitterworld of BIVOUAC , slightly inbred young Middle Englanders who would much rather plod their way to the top than dance with Nirvana , learns KEITH ‘ Plodcore ’ CAMERON . |
| 15 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |