Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 2 | Conclude : ‘ It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it . ’ |
| 3 | Yet others may deplore British nationalism while taking it for granted that there is some homogeneous group called the British , thus conceding the basic premise for a British nationalism . |
| 4 | This call the lesser chamber because to distinguish it from the greater chamber . |
| 5 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 6 | If the military do n't use the area often , they can not cause as much distress to the natural environment as opening it to the public would . |
| 7 | This is not necessarily an increase in your workload : drafting and redrafting allows lower-intensity and less stressful work than packing everything into a single and decisive act of composition . |
| 8 | What better way to unwind at the end of a frantic week than treating yourself to an hour or two of pure pampering ? |
| 9 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 10 | These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead . |
| 11 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 12 | It was as much a speech to slam eleven years of Conservative government as to promote himself as a statesman , capable of assuming the role of Prime Minister . |
| 13 | It was the one shared walk of the Rambles and I had forgotten the golden rule when introducing someone to the hills , never to stretch them beyond their ability . |
| 14 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |
| 15 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 16 | In this way , people such as the Trobrianders of the Pacific , made famous by Malinowshi , spend a great deal of their energy producing goods of no practical value , mainly elaborate pieces of jewellery , for no other purpose than to exchange them with neighbours , and thereby maintain peaceful social relations . |
| 17 | Everyone is agreed that looking after patients in the community is a more expensive option than keeping them inside a hospital , where all the facilities are available under one roof . |
| 18 | Some other option than putting herself in debt to DeVore ? |
| 19 | It presented a far better opportunity for an unsolved murder than killing her on his own premises . |
| 20 | Apart from not actually having members of your audience fall headlong , the other main consideration when getting them into and out of their seats is ease of movement . |