Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She later confessed that she had seen in him not a budding genius , but only a ‘ little man ’ . |
| 2 | Any one network junction has topological neighbours , that is , junctions connected to it along a common chain , but it also possesses spatial neighbour junctions — junctions which may in fact be nearer to it in the continuum space but which belong to other chains . |
| 3 | His choice of vegetables was being dictated to him over a portable telephone . |
| 4 | Questions of religion mattered so much to the leaders of the colony that arguments in favour of religious toleration would have seemed to them simply a new onslaught on the purity of religion . |
| 5 | And the passion with which the surviving English monks defended their past and resisted change must have seemed to him simply a final proof of mental and spiritual decay . |
| 6 | The bulk of the programme would then outline in some detail the specific projects being funded , and the resources allocated to them over a 3–4-year period . |
| 7 | HCFC-123 , a substitute material for ozone-damaging chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) being marketed by the British chemical company ICI , has been found to cause tumours in rats exposed to it over a two-year period . |
| 8 | The purchase , in large numbers , of these items by the development team gained for them quite an athletic reputation among the chemist shop assistants in the locality . |