Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover .
2 On the contrary , the use of such materials will consolidate and extend our students ’ familiarity with computational techniques while introducing them to a relatively new and important range of historical source material .
3 They see society and human action as being structured by social rules and values , and portray social systems as reproducing themselves via socialization — the transmission of social values to new generations through the family , the educational system and so on .
4 If so , Britain would be in the position of forbidding its own manufacturers from making unsafe goods while allowing them to be imported .
5 Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death .
6 Well what do you think would happen to the poor things if left them in that water ?
7 As mothers and doctors we benefit from being able to continue our medical careers while devoting ourselves to our families ; our patients have access to female doctors sympathetic to the experience of raising a young family ; and our practice is enriched by our contributions on the broadest range of issues from the clinical to the practical .
8 There are plenty of other ways than throwing yourself from a walkway . ’
9 John Arthur Johnson was born in 1878 and worked on a milk wagon , in livery stables , in bakers ' shops , at Galveston docks and in various other occupations while establishing himself as a boxer of some distinction .
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