Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Criminal law appears to be regarded in legal education as something of a Cinderella subject , being widely regarded as suitable for beginners in the study of law to cut their teeth on before tackling the real business of legal study , viz. contract , tort , trusts and land law .
2 There are dangers in over emphasising a particular set of test scores in that the results may not be replicated in future years and all sorts of qualifiers will need to be introduced .
3 Too many women have been brain-washed for centuries in to accepting the old saying : 'A son 's a son till he gets him a wife , but a daughter 's a daughter all her life . ’
4 There are occasions when the relationship between Voight 's big , blond , likeable dimwit , ludicrously decked out in cowboy gear , and Dustin 's small , greasy-haired , pallid , crippled down-and-outer is touchingly and humorously portrayed , particularly the moment when Buck 's face lights up on seeing an unshaven Ratso eating alone in a diner .
5 As a particular form of rationality a human being , considered as a total personality , is above all an effort to think things out by having a firm conception of its own nature , as this exists in the physical world , and of what will assist this nature to keep in existence .
6 He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops .
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