Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay .
2 The profit diagrams for options ( Figs 7.5 and 7.6 ) are a little more complex than those for securities as the profit is dependent on more than just the share price at expiry ( S ) .
3 It should be remembered , however , that the great majority of inland sewage works themselves ultimately discharge their treated effluents to open watercourses , subject to more or less the same kinds of constraint as other dischargers .
4 The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen .
5 IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other .
6 Fishman acknowledges the skill involved in this and indeed the necessity for someone to do it ; but she sees it as something women are coerced into .
7 The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now .
8 It is concerned with English as both a subject and a means of instruction , with the ideas about language , teaching , and learning , which inform different methodologies , and with the verbal interaction that occurs spontaneously in classroom settings .
9 That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast .
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