Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 2 | In Crohn 's disease the frequency of IgG anti-α antigen and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies did not differ statistically from the control group , although in a few instances the antibody levels were surprisingly high . |
| 3 | Washing facilities are another priority , although in the early stages the patient might be washed in his room , as though he were in hospital . |
| 4 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 5 | Both slow movements are warmly and elegantly done , and if in the outer ones the soloist sometimes seems to be hell-bent on reaching the winning post first , the orchestra keeps up with ease . |
| 6 | It was further felt that in some cases the lowest tender tended to gain the contract at the expense of better quality work because of the financial restrictions the Housing Executive Board have allowed to be placed on them . |
| 7 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 8 | Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis . |
| 9 | Because in the earlier interviews no attempt was made to stimulate recollections of grandparents , we have a clearer indication of how far such memories were important . |
| 10 | Shiny swathes of gold , scarlet and black fabric had been draped from the ceiling , while between the gaudy bolts a brand-new wallpaper of rose-covered trellis disguised the damp patches of the ballroom 's plaster . |
| 11 | These open barren areas in central Australia are mainly populated by farmers ( who can own large expanses of land ) therefore the population density is low whereas in the coastal cities the population is much higher due to job opportunities . |
| 12 | Developers hired murderers to exterminate Indians while in the coastal cities a pro-Indian movement gathered strength and by 1910 an ‘ Indian Protection Service ’ was formed . |
| 13 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 14 | But for the largest banks the whole business has meant big pickings … ’ |
| 15 | It is for the tribunal which decides the case to consider , not as law but as fact , whether in the whole circumstances the words of the statute do or do not as a matter of ordinary usage of the English language cover or apply to the facts which have been proved . |
| 16 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 17 | When under the same conditions a saturated fatty acid ( stearic ) replaced the arachiodonic acid in sn-2 position almost all biliary cholesterol was in the vesicular fraction . |
| 18 | Bad today , the situation will get worse when in a few years the number of potential recruits begins to decline . |
| 19 | The Dickens study reported that 55 per cent of applicants and 67 per cent of respondents were represented , though in the remaining cases the companies ' representatives ' status could not be readily identified ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | As to the recent faults the committee concluded that they were due to careless handling of the cable during laying , to poor design and to bad practices in overall manufacture . |