Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Money paid to a person in a public or quasi-public position to obtain the performance by him of a duty which he is bound to perform for nothing or for less than the sum demanded by him is recoverable to the extent that he is not entitled to it . |
| 2 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 3 | A survey would establish once and for all whether the coal they are taking out is paying its way and whether the pit has a future . ’ |
| 4 | Well if that 's the case it must be sorted out once and for all if the club is to go forward . |
| 5 | Hence , one may be able to work out the broad effect of interdependencies once and for all when the strategy is set . |
| 6 | Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts . |
| 7 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 8 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 9 | And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations . |
| 10 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 11 | Neither the Saracen vassals nor the Basque and Navarese vassals were trustworthy , and in 778 while the army was returning across the Pyrenees , Basque warriors attacked the wagon train , capturing considerable amounts of booty and killing three senior members of Charles ' government . |
| 12 | And in less than a year after that the Secretary of State may make it clear that our client group is radically changed and moved |
| 13 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 14 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 15 | And in less than no time the weeks passed and the memories of that dreaded party were only a vaguely uneasy thought in the sealed-off recesses of Robyn 's mind . |
| 16 | The wind turned colder , with a scatter of rain , and in less than an hour it was dark . |
| 17 | To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month . |
| 18 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 19 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 20 | These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility . |
| 21 | ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’ |
| 22 | Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake . |
| 23 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 24 | Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars . |
| 25 | But in less than an hour he was back , and he looked very afraid . |
| 26 | But within less than an hour he was back on his farm . |
| 27 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |