Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is often concerned with the structure of social relationships , the principles underlying organizations and the manifestation of social institutions in general as evidence at a particular time , rather than being concerned with the flow of events which attracts the historian . |
| 2 | The effects ranged from the hilarity and confusion produced by laughing gas ( nitrous oxide in less than anaesthetic doses ) to a simple diminution of the sense of pain by fever-reducing drugs of the coal-tar dyestuffs industry ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 3 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 4 | This type of revision , arising via a matching exercise , will be a feature of National Certificate in future as Lead Bodies continue to generate standards . |
| 5 | As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service . |
| 6 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 7 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 8 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 9 | Since that day of Dirac 's discovery the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those in the know . |
| 10 | A more precise source for this than archaeology is the record of tax assessments , and more particularly the grants of tax relief which were made in the fifteenth-century reassessments . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , but there are other ways of winning than fighting . ’ |
| 12 | One fifth of England will have been lost to urban sprawl by 2050 if development continues at the present rate , according to the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |