Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , however , only a brief-lived aberration if compared with the more complete Victorian revival which happened later . |
| 2 | With the signing of two financial agreements with Algeria on May 2 , Italy was confirmed as one of Algeria 's main commercial partners — a policy said to provide endorsement for Hamrouche 's reform programme and to contrast with the more cautious attitude of France , Algeria 's most important trading partner . |
| 3 | The problem for any intelligence agency , East or West , is whether to take a politician at his word when he is publicly declaring a desire for greater friendship and understanding with the very same people against whom the covert operation is intended . |
| 4 | Was it a creature like a sea squirt which gave rise to the more mobile lancelet-like form by producing descendants that abandoned the stationary condition and reproduced during the hitherto larval stage ? |
| 5 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 6 | It was packed , further proof that dance music is now threatening to displace rock and pop as the most popular live musical entertainment in Glasgow . |
| 7 | The words we use , though they have a central core of meaning that is relatively fixed , have a fringe of uncertainty when applied to the infinitely variable facts of experience . |
| 8 | Then to our surprise he produced CAST IRON plate ‘ No. 2 ’ off Carlisle , and if that were not enough , the wooden trespass board that appears in the well known photograph of ‘ No. 1 ’ near Horderley . |
| 9 | The ‘ new ’ socialist criminology that emerged from the more politically conscious branch of 1960s interactionism brought this dilemma once again to the forefront . |
| 10 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 11 | They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep . |
| 12 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 13 | It 's all very complicated and there 's a lot of stuff about original ‘ round ’ core as opposed to the more modern ‘ hex ’ core , and something about wrap wire being able to move around a round core , and the wrap stretching on tuning and just the core moving through the nut , and the smaller space available for gunk to gather , and a heck of a lot more besides . |
| 14 | People who live , work , play and die in the more remote rural places like Baldersdale are distanced from the rest of us , and not just in the geographic sense . |
| 15 | WHEN JUGGLING YOUR FINANCES AT HOME AND WORK , WHY TOSS A COIN AND HOPE FOR THE BEST ? |
| 16 | I put my stethoscope on her heart and listened to the increasingly faint , rapid beat then I straightened up and sat on the rug looking sightlessly into the fireplace , feeling the warmth of the flames on my face . |
| 17 | Cut off the bottom of the stem and look at the freshly cut end . |
| 18 | The staircase to the upper floor is in beautiful style , with a fountain at its base and leads to the more important art treasures . |
| 19 | Each team was well aware of the danger that lurked on the seemingly innocent roads . |
| 20 | She speaks with an almost childlike directness that wins over the most sceptical audience . |
| 21 | Even if we adopt a much narrower focus and look at the specifically political institutions of the proclaimed democracies , it is plain that there is a long way to go before democratic principles are fully embodied in them . |
| 22 | In my view , those arguments are based on very little research , hyperbole and appeal to the most crude stereotypes . |
| 23 | He raised the lid and gazed at the brightly coloured pots . |
| 24 | Bombing sorties required exceptional skill and technical accuracy on the part of the Lincoln aircrews , particularly the navigation plotters and bomb aimers as most bombing missions required ordnance to be dropped on an exact point as opposed to the more conventional method of ‘ carpet ’ bombing large areas . |
| 25 | In addition to the learners , there is at least one resource person who knows both the target language and the native language , and who has some experience in a non-directive style of counselling as opposed to the more traditional role played by the teacher using the audio-lingual method . |
| 26 | The first was the introduction of the Apple Macintosh which was the first personal computer to be based entirely on a graphical interface as opposed to the more conventional character-at-a-time systems . |
| 27 | Now the trick of course is to buy at the cheapest price or sell at the most expensive . |
| 28 | But like many articulate and intelligent people , even those trained to search out the hidden structures of literature , even those who have been moved by great art or fascinated by the most remote biographical details from the lives of writers ( such as the information that Ibsen on occasion wrote with a scorpion in a jar on his desk ) , he nonetheless had little or no access to the springs of his own emotions . |
| 29 | There was something about the elegant fist-fighting , swearing , tough little New York-born Italian son-of-a-gun that appealed to the ever-so-ever-so English son of a knight . |
| 30 | It was the acquittal of the four policemen who beat Rodney King that touched off the most lethal urban riot in American history ( 50 dead , the majority of them black and Latino ) , but the memory of the killing of Latasha Harlins was as potent a spark in igniting the intifada . |