Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 For some shares therefore the deals were often done on a matched basis .
2 Of these divisions only the gastropods and cephalopods contain predators and in terms of the home aquarium we only really need to consider gastropods as octopi and squid are so seldom offered on the hobbyist market .
3 In those days also the boats were unchanged since Vincent Van Gogh had spent one week there in June 1888 and had painted them , red and blue , green and yellow , with coloured delicate masts erect , and the slanted , tapering yard-arms crossing each other on the pale mackerel sky .
4 Nevertheless the load factors have consistently increased until most days now the flights are full . ’
5 They hurried past Fleet ditch , the corpses of dead dogs floating in the slime , and along twisting lanes which ran through the high , four-storey houses , the upper floors projecting out on wooden pillars so the rooms above could catch the sun .
6 If zero values for and can be imposed on theoretical grounds then the conditions necessary for the non-rational expectations observationally equivalent model can be ruled out as implausible .
7 [ But ] we must recognise as competing rights only the rights of other members of society as individuals .
8 The various highways and public transport requirements can be covered by negative conditions i.e. no houses should be occupied until the specified roadworks etc. have been completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Highways .
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