Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 2 | We know too little about the internal social relations of some of the earliest collective and collaborative forms to speak with any certainty of that stage . |
| 3 | We found that the electrical conductivity of the electrolyte-saturated carbon-bearing samples increased more steeply with temperature than that for the electrolyte-saturated carbon-free samples ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 4 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 5 | It is , nonetheless , significantly different from that for the high rated films , z=1.75 , p<0.05 . |
| 6 | Third , it is noteworthy that the question appropriate to predicate qualifying position is different from that for the postnominal attributive adjectives . |
| 7 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 8 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've met quite a few during the past five years , ’ he agreed smoothly . |
| 10 | Detroit 's population has dwindled by half during the past four decades , to barely 1m . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , I am taking six ferrets then I need two boxes — one for four as already described and another for the remaining two animals . |
| 12 | No matter how she might have to count the pennies she could always spare a few for the bright yellow flowers which reminded her of home . |
| 13 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that nearly half of the top 500 companies in the European Community are British , led by British Telecom ? |
| 14 | Plans to airlift up to half of the wild Javan rhinos to new reserves have proved controversial . |
| 15 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 16 | Banbridge are the only one of the ten Senior One teams who wo n't be playing home games on such surfaces , and now that Ballynahinch and Portadown have elected to slot in at Valley Leisure Centre and Newry respectively , half of the Senior Two games will be played on synthetic too . |
| 17 | There is some way to go in all this despite the promising early signs . |
| 18 | If the relatively steep dips of some of the exposed reverse faults were to continue deep into the crust , the region to the south could legitimately be regarded as unprospective . |
| 19 | Editor , — Though we agree with Fritz H Schröder that some of the intriguing scientific questions about the natural course of prostatic cancer could be answered in a randomised controlled trial of screening , we are concerned that the possible adverse effects of screening may be arguments against such an exercise . |
| 20 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 21 | She passed some of the compulsory qualifying examinations and failed others and was granted an exemption from one subject on the basis of a pass in it attained at London University . |
| 22 | Some of the grand sidereal events of the universe are more accessible at night . |
| 23 | Nowadays the keen water gardener has become far more selective when purchasing waterlilies , either trying to obtain some of the rarer varieties or experimenting with some of the more recent introductions of nymphaea , especially some of the outstanding new varieties that have been produced in America . |
| 24 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 25 | Let's hope for Leeds ' sake that some of the doddery old gits in the FA are too scared to give it to Wilko . |
| 26 | Alongside the old telegraph equipment , old telephones , old radios and old cables , there is Prestel , optic fibres and some of the not-very-exciting new telephones available in Britain . |
| 27 | In the Operations Room , some of the female part-time watchkeepers were just coming on duty and were being briefed on the operations that were planned for the day and those that were already taking place . |
| 28 | The worst offenders are some of the Eastern European countries , who are unlikely to be able to make substantial financial contributions . |
| 29 | We have failed to grasp it and , although some of the eastern European countries now seem to be succeeding in the adaptation to a market economy , many others , including Russia , are likely to fail . |
| 30 | The Thatcherite view of a loosely associated Europe , including some of the Eastern European states , rests on a nationalistic suspicion of things European . |