Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [subord] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the minute grubs hatch , they are immediately attracted , through some as yet unidentified sense organs , to the scent of mustard oil emanating from the roots . |
| 2 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 3 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 4 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 5 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 6 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 7 | It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts . |
| 8 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 9 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 10 | These were the first men of less than fully aristocratic background to gain prominence through their merit . |
| 11 | There is a simple linear hierarchy in groups of less than about ten hens . |
| 12 | For many if not most writers in the Marxist or neo-Marxist tradition , the state is an ‘ arena of class struggle ’ . |
| 13 | SIR — When regretting the lack of an inventory of life ( see Gaston and Mound Nature 361 , 579 ; 1993 ) , we should be careful to distinguish the complete list of organisms , that is including many as yet undiscovered species , from the smaller set of just those that have already been described . |
| 14 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 15 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 16 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |
| 17 | Meanwhile House Party producers Reggie and Warrington Hudlin are preparing a science fiction musical comedy with several as yet unspecified rap artists in starring roles . |
| 18 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 19 | But neither of these is fully regulated which means that teachers may perhaps find themselves working for less than fully professional organisations . |
| 20 | Articulated crampons have a separate front and heel piece linked in some way , and are better for less than totally rigid leather boots and boots with some curve on the front sole . |
| 21 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |
| 22 | And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported . |
| 23 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
| 24 | This analysis suggests that the identification and diagnosis of language disorder is unlikely to provide the basis for more than relatively crude speculations regarding the child 's prognosis . |
| 25 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 26 | Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
| 28 | Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts . |
| 29 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 30 | Changes in these practices were stimulated , in many if not all cases , by the need to respond to population pressure ; once again , the same problem may have invoked a different response in different cultural milieux . |