Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 2 | The theory has several distinctive aspects , the most important of which are these : ( a ) The insistence that units are ranked one above another in a definite order . |
| 3 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 4 | This happens when a succession of items are placed one after another in a sentence without words to indicate their order or importance . |
| 5 | Pat was infinitely available to Alice , helping with painting and cleaning ; between them the two women accomplished miracles , dingy caves being transformed one after another to fresh and lively rooms . |
| 6 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 7 | One asks whether we are now seeing tools being fashioned which by some future , perhaps less scrupulous , Government may be used to weaken the independent administration of justice and so undermine the rule of law . |