Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impulse to partner parents can be as strong for children as the temptation for parents to confide in their children as if they were partners . |
| 2 | Invoking Woodrow Wilson , Mr Frohnmayer told his audience that , ‘ The world will not be free for museums until the world is free for ideas ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Morris , whose own house suffered relatively little damage , said he realised the potential danger early on Thursday evening when he asked for the river to be kept clear of debris before the level grew too high . |
| 4 | Snobbery may provide one answer : in his supposed solidarity with his own kind , he may not have wished to suggest that a tenant farmer could prove more generous of spirit than the laird . |
| 5 | Customer Care — If a customer 's car is off the road for more than 24 hours waiting for a component to arrive , Renault 's Customer Courtesy Service allows him or her to use a replacement vehicle free of charge until the part is delivered and the problem rectified . |
| 6 | Ground can sometimes be hired on a commercial basis but it is more often totally free of charge provided the farmer is assured of your good character and dependability . |
| 7 | The white areas of the design are stopped-out with varnish before the plate comes into contact with the acid . |
| 8 | French composers , notably Le Jeune , preferred in the 1590s to describe their chansons as ‘ airs ’ and the lute ayre was as definitely French in origin as the madrigal was Italian — and as completely anglicized by the different language . |
| 9 | All patterns are made in paper to try-cut the parts , and each seam is pre-stretched in turn as the shape is built up . |
| 10 | ‘ He was n't interested in experience because the idea was to train people , ’ she explains . |
| 11 | Tottenham and Nottingham Forest would also be interested in Webb if the fee was less than £1million . |
| 12 | AN INTENSE melting pot of American society in decline , Arthur Penn 's adaptation of Horton Foote 's play was far more popular in Europe than the country in which it was set . |
| 13 | Other significant phenomena which have emerged from such studies are that simple reversals of the numbers are a common form of error , accurate reproduction is facilitated by deliberate grouping in twos or threes and the ends of a span seem to be less prone to error than the middle . |
| 14 | Lenny Sinken , a lawyer for the Washington-based Christic Institute , wants the mission delayed for 18 months while Nasa studies alternative power sources or arranges for Galileo to leave Earth on an unmanned rocket , less prone to failure than the shuttle . |
| 15 | Heel of the palm : Fast and less prone to injury than a punch . |
| 16 | ‘ Success ’ inevitably remains elusive by definition unless the individual escapes the label altogether . |
| 17 | Such religious/humanitarian subject-matter — even the Holocaust , Hiroshima and Aids have not escaped — makes a fortress as unassailable by criticism as the art produced under tyranny . |
| 18 | A man and woman who freely and willingly engage in anal intercourse are thus as guilty of buggery as a man who perpetrates a violent anal attack . |
| 19 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 20 | It was held that the accused was not guilty of theft because the transaction was a contract of sale which was voidable for mistake but had not been avoided . |
| 21 | No sound was more typical of Iran-contra than the dropping of a secret , like a stone , into otherwise peaceful conversation ; at which the other participants would carefully get up and walk away . |
| 22 | ‘ I just went numb with shock when the jury found them guilty . ’ |
| 23 | As share prices rose , companies rushed to issue Eurobonds with warrants attached that were convertible into shares if the share reached a pre-fixed exercise price . |
| 24 | This would be easy in principle if the world-from-within were somehow lodged in an external world , which held the causal key to it . |
| 25 | The tort is sometimes referred to as statutory negligence but it is preferable to treat the action as separate from negligence as the standard of care owed may differ . |
| 26 | In times of recession , turnover rents are more favourable to tenants because the tenant 's liability to pay rent is related to his ability to pay . |
| 27 | News of the final terms caused the shares to bounce 31p to 558p yesterday as it became clear that they were much more favourable to Kingfisher than the market feared when negotiations between the two sides came to light earlier this month . |
| 28 | Rosettes , mats , cushions and tussocks create internal microenvironments that are more favourable to growth than the world outside ; temperatures and humidities measured among growing shoots in spring are usually higher than ambient , though soil and root temperatures may remain lower . |
| 29 | Hardwood frames are stronger and more resistant to decay than the softwood variety , but good protection is still required for best results . |
| 30 | It is much more dangerous to humans than the man-o'-war , and several hundred fatalities have been recorded ; death is so sudden that no treatment is possible . |