Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The similarities with a number of recent ethnic/nationalist phenomena are evident , especially where these are themselves linked with , or seek to re-establish links with , a group-specific religious faith — as among ( Christian ) Armenians opposing ( Muslim ) Azeri Turks , or in the recent and markedly Old Testament phase of Likud Zionism in Israel . |
| 2 | In the Dili area that winter , there were 300 Europeans and 5,000 native villagers working on their sweet potato , pineapple , and peanut plots or in the larger and more ordered government plantations on higher ground where crops of rice , maize , and coffee grew . |
| 3 | But it was also an explicitly Christian spirit — unfortunate therefore for the four thousand Jews and for the tiny but now increasing numbers of Hindus , Buddhists , Muslims , and Taoists . |
| 4 | Diamonds on the other hand were too hard , and during the Classical and Early Medieval periods could only be mounted as natural crystals , in which guise they served as symbols of hardness and strength , but not yet as signs of conspicuous wealth . |
| 5 | In the search for alternatives , eyes are turning away from faraway galaxies and towards the nearest and most humdrum piece of astrophysics : the sun . |
| 6 | Dave has spent some 20 years researching this fascinating subject and of the 1,000 or so entries there is a wealth of detail — much of which will be brand new to the reader and possibly just down the road ! |
| 7 | ‘ With respect , ’ said Earl Robert , standing courteously aloof , and in the mildest and most reasonable of voices , ‘ how should we determine who should be first to try the fates ? |
| 8 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 9 | This stance was rejected by extremist elements in the military , and by the richest and most right-wing families who had been the most fervent supporters of the coup . |
| 10 | But amongst the easier and more obvious structures to count are the dendritic spines , and a graduate student of Mike 's , Sanjay Patel , did just that in the mid-1980s . |
| 11 | Not just with the new things , but with the old as well . |
| 12 | But in the Cambrian or earlier the chordates no doubt included animals little more highly organized than the contemporary arthropods or brachiopods . |
| 13 | Yet such discrepancies are not caused by the logic of structures but by the messy and often far from inevitable ways in which people come to understand the world around them and their own practices . |