Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | This is because of the limited partnerships ' tax losses while drilling , and the availability of capital allowances . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | Instead a growing number of elderly demented people were admitted because of the local authorities ' failure to provide alternative care . |
7 | Because of the original engineers ' appreciation of its intrinsic brittleness , cast-iron members tend to be stressed to lower levels than steelwork and the way they were incorporated into buildings usually allows them to expand in a fire without generating increased stresses . |
8 | Except , a small protective inner voice prompted her hurtfully , that I 'm no long-term threat to your person or your property because in a few days ' time at the very most I shall be out of your land and out of your life . |
9 | Brigade officers said that but for the two men 's prompt action the woman almost certainly would have died . |
10 | As for the internal auditors ' role , ‘ they 're not expected to do a full statutory audit but a great deal of the detailed work which , carried out on a continuous basis , would greatly increase the probability of detecting fraud . ’ |
11 | If the salad is delicate , then a flavoured vinegar or aromatic oil may be sufficient , as for the Smoked Quails ' Eggs and Mozzarella Salad ( recipe p23 ) pictured on previous page and dressed only with virgin olive oil . |
12 | As with the classical sociologists ' attempts to describe and explain the processes of social and historical change , so contemporary sociologists of development rely almost entirely on the comparative method of analysis . |
13 | For a study of clients ' perspectives with fairly limited time and money , group interviews can be very productive , as in the National Children 's Bureau 's ‘ Who Cares ? ’ study ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) in which young people in care spoke at length about their experiences . |
14 | Yet sometimes , as in the English Mummers ' Play , ‘ it is the representative of the good principle that is killed by the evil , and afterwards brought back to life ’ . |