Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Container growing is convenient , too , in that herbs can be protected in winter , the containers can be put where most convenient or most suitable for the herbs , and they can be used for decorating otherwise austere sites such as paving , basement areas and concrete yards . |
| 2 | Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse . |
| 3 | Unlike BR , where the decline has been virtually continuous , numbers in RENFE were more or less static between the mid-1970s and 1984 . |
| 4 | No I think they 'd got to a point where , you know , if you , if you were about erm , they made sure they were the first ones there like the and they , I think they more or less recognized by the merchants they , they were the boatmen . |
| 5 | Yeah , I know you can feel those there , they 're just more or less flush with the heads . |
| 6 | The premise on which African governments worked was that if capital could not be had on highly concessional terms it was better to accept it on terms more or less defined by the donors . |
| 7 | But I think it is reasonable to observe that the major issues of the Falklands War were more or less written in the stars . |
| 8 | Rex and Moore 's classification was based upon research in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham , and it is more or less time-specific to the mid-1960s and applicable to medium-to large-sized cities . |
| 9 | The shareholders in non-profit institutions and publicly owned companies in both cases are more or less synonymous with the customers of the firm ; they provide no additional constraint apart from this , though in publicly owned companies the relevant government department will impose its own constraints ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 10 | In this respect it is significant that Sartre , Althusser , Derrida and Lyotard , among others , were all either born in Algeria or personally involved with the events of the war . |
| 11 | But what I , we are not prepared to do , is allow the schools that we represent to suffer , just to maintain small schools in this county , which are no longer economical or viable or educationally beneficial to the children that attend them . |
| 12 | In other words , the angle of attack relative to the airflow is steep at the centre of the sail , and neutral or even negative at the tips . |
| 13 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 14 | However , in the terms of the theory of the capitalist global system elaborated here , apart from those directly or indirectly responsive to the interests of the TNCs as expressed by the transnational capitalist class , their transnational practices are dis ’ tinctly marginal . |
| 15 | But there is a school of thought that says that if one can make the forests economically or financially valuable to the countries then they 're more likely to look after them than if you do n't . |
| 16 | a child 's needs are such as to require provision additional to or otherwise different from the facilities and resources generally available in ordinary schools in the area under normal arrangements . |
| 17 | To help with raising this portion of the budget , Highlander has a regular mailing list for donations , distributes nearly 7,000 mailed copies of the ‘ Highlander Newsletter , ’ and generates a certain amount by ‘ self-sufficiency ’ i.e. profits from the sale of records , books , cattle , and from farm produce which is surplus to requirements The donations from the ‘ Public ’ source also form a significant part of the total running budget of Highlander , and this generally consists of awards from Charitable organisations , Trusts and Foundations interested in adult education , leadership development , or specifically sympathetic to the aims of particular programs , ( e.g funding for cultural exchange workshops ) . |
| 18 | We laugh about it now , but it is sobering to think that thousands of men , either too old or too young for the Services , should have gone quite voluntarily , many nights a week , to drill and to manoeuvre , seriously believing that they might have to encounter an invading army . |
| 19 | It is nor particularly heavy on the controls , but it does tend to fishtail at bit , due to the massive engine up-front and a relatively small fin and rudder at the rear . |
| 20 | At death a series of rites enabled the pharaoh himself to become Osiris and thereby safe from the depredations of time . |
| 21 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar , which was where Mahmoud was taking them , was one of the oldest and most traditional of the bazaars . |
| 22 | ( Edited by Peter Edwards , available from Essex CCC , ) is the fattest and most thorough of the yearbooks received , probably because , as the editorial points out , last year ‘ there were so many aspects of Essex 's Championship success ’ . |
| 23 | MALAYSIA : On the west coast , Penang is the largest and most developed of the islands , with attractive beaches and an interesting history ( it is the oldest British settlement in Malaysia ) . |
| 24 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 25 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 26 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 27 | The palest and most wagtail-like of the pipits , with its almost uniform sandy-brown plumage ( scarcely streaked above , unstreaked below ) , long tail , and wagtail-like stance . |
| 28 | Sanskrit is the language of classical India , one of the oldest and most significant of the civilisations of the world . |
| 29 | In 1991 the Conservative government proposed to privatise one of the oldest and most respected of the inspectorates — Her Majesty 's Inspectors of Schools . |
| 30 | Apart from being a major port and ferry terminal , Cherbourg also has an extensive yacht marina , and is of course gateway to the Cotentin peninsula , where many of the bloodiest and most important of the battles of the liberation were fought in the immediate aftermath of the Allied invasion . |