Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corresponding evidence for textile manufacture and treatment on a commercial basis is everywhere lacking in Britain , except for the possible cloth-finisher 's or dyer 's shop at Chelmsford , which contained several hearths and a large tile structure identified as a vat . |
| 2 | The room contained nothing personal except for the dead man 's clothes and these were carefully stored in the great wardrobe and the chest-of-drawers . |
| 3 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
| 4 | Rally-attenders at Wheathampstead were gratified to find the school magnificently decorated with flowers ( albeit for the previous evening 's farewell to the retiring headmaster ) . |
| 5 | But it is not so easy to find good examples of his suggestion that batterie can lend wit except in the Blue Boy 's révoltades in Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 6 | It has been generalist rather than specific , its programme being based upon each child 's interests and abilities ( rather than upon an external authority 's projection of what they ought to be ) . |
| 7 | And the room always looked beautiful , except on a gloomy winter 's day , when it was frightful . |
| 8 | The members regarded the course as satisfactory , although at the next month 's committee meeting the decision was taken to dig trenches around the back and across the 4th green . |
| 9 | Yet , in sharp contrast , village life here moves little faster than at a slow donkey 's pace and has a simple , rustic feel which gives it a special charm . |
| 10 | This will reduce Target 's profits that are subject to corporation tax to £100 , providing Target with an economic benefit of £33 ( assuming that it pays corporation tax at the full rate rather than at the small company 's rate under s13 ) . |
| 11 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 12 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 13 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 14 | Erm because of a social evening er we had a raffle and a whiskey bowl I think the purists might not like the E in whiskey but that 's the way it 's been done that must be the southern way . |
| 15 | This is because of the limited partnerships ' tax losses while drilling , and the availability of capital allowances . |
| 16 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 17 | I also know that I sit here , not because of any evidence against me but because of the legal establishment 's concerns for its own pretensions to infallibility . |
| 18 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 19 | The appeal aims to raise £125,000 to back the theatre , which is to be called the Manweb Theatre , because of the Chester-based company 's support . |
| 20 | ‘ Normally the Bruces are in their mountain castle across the country on the River Clyde but , because of the late King 's death , Bruce stays near Edinburgh . |
| 21 | This year there are fears that , because of the prime minister 's public commitment against narcotics , next spring will see a heavy toll in lives in the settled areas during the opium harvest season . |
| 22 | Is not it clear that the recession caused by the Prime Minister 's policies is continuing because of the Prime Minister 's paralysis ? |
| 23 | There are economies that are slowing ; ours is in reverse because of the Prime Minister 's policies . |
| 24 | He had immense difficulties to overcome , partly because of the average Englishman 's prejudice against foreigners ( especially perhaps the French ) and partly because of the then prejudice of society against a science — veterinary medicine — which was not yet established as respectable . |
| 25 | Once again , traditional and Project 2000 nursing students will be split because of the present government 's contempt for nursing students . |
| 26 | The recommendations included refraining from concluding a peace treaty because of divergent views among interested countries and because of the Soviet Union 's pursuance of militant expansion . |
| 27 | The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 . |
| 28 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 29 | I have no doubt that additional points will be raised about that aspect later because of the Select Committee 's excellent report . |
| 30 | Consequently , had the dye in Ingham provoked a reaction even to a " normal " customer , but the effect was exacerbated because of the particular customer 's sensitive skin , the hairdresser could not avoid or limit liability on this ground ( see Parsons ( Livestock ) Ltd v Uttley , Ingham and Co [ 1978 ] QB 791 ) . |