Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are often infrastructural assets which have no determinable useful life , are not readily disposable , have no readily determinable market value , and which provide a social rather than a commercial service . |
| 2 | You want a six preferably or a king or five , yeah . |
| 3 | The only way to overcome this was to add gold dust , heat the two together until the molten gold bound the platinum granules together , and then by alternately heating and hammering the mixture convert it into a compact mass capable of being forged or cast . |
| 4 | Add the two together and the answer Trent found most obvious was a coup d'état . |
| 5 | So I 'm going to do erm a half add a third okay and a third add a quarter and a half take away a third okay and I 'll give you another one to do How about this one . |
| 6 | The Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) and EHOS strongly recommend that caterers use a commercial rather than a domestic model . |
| 7 | Which meant you had to try the mixing drop it onto the plate count how many you got out it clean out the machine and try another one and do the same again and the same again . |
| 8 | A recent report of the Institute of Directors on the professional development of directors ( 1990 ) led a spokesman to say that ‘ it is not surprising that many boards do an adequate rather than an excellent job ’ ( quoted in The Independent , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |
| 10 | So take the ten away and the you have ten left over and then take the two away from that so eight . |
| 11 | ‘ No player … has shown greater ability to retain possession of the ball … his passes are invariably accurate and reach a forward so that the latter can make rapid headway ’ eulogised a Palace scribe back in 1913 , by which time H.H. ( as he was popularly called ) had become our club captain — indeed it was while Harry was our skipper that we had our best Southern League season and went within an ace of winning the Championship in 1914 . |
| 12 | Some sources have a subtle rather than a very strong and obvious bias . |
| 13 | Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words . |
| 14 | Grierson ( 1961 ) has suggested that seventh century coins have a social rather than a commercial significance . |
| 15 | However , most sociologists would argue that systems of racial stratification have a social rather than a biological basis . |
| 16 | The law and procedure of his court have an international rather than a purely English character ; it administers a law which is to be found in the medieval maritime codes , such as the Laws of Oleron and the so-called Law of Rhodes ; in the background , as a supplementary law , is the Civil or Roman law . |