Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie stood with her face against the cold glass of her window-pane , seeing not the bleak yard and the lights blossoming in the backs of other houses but berries reddening on the hedges around home and fields glinting with frost . |
| 2 | Repeat elections were needed where neither a sole candidate nor either of two candidates had secured 50 per cent of the vote in the first or second round . |
| 3 | Where either the High Court or a county court is satisfied that proceedings before it are required to be in the other court whether by reason of the 1991 Order or any other provisions made under s 1 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , or by reason of any other enactment , then it must either transfer the proceedings to the other court or strike them out ( CCA 1984 , ss 40 and 42 ) . |
| 4 | From studies of these countries , there appears to be an unwillingness of the elderly to seek assistance from their younger kin , although paradoxically the young report that they are more willing to give help than the elderly are willing to seek it . |
| 5 | In addition , the breed has been very widely exported and has played a major role in the creation or improvement of many other breeds : its influence has probably been greater than any other breed except perhaps the Friesian group and its adaptability is legendary . |
| 6 | The burgh of Paisley , although not a royal burgh and thus not forming part of one of the parliamentary districts , had a vote in the county elections for Renfrewshire in right of the burgh lands , and it was the burgh vote which provided the candidate with his strongest argument for preferment . |
| 7 | Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals . |
| 8 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 9 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 10 | ‘ Falling in love ’ , therefore , was more than just a trivial pastime but a serious business . |
| 11 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |
| 12 | Was there more to it , then , than just the plain fact that her mother was still alive ? |
| 13 | But her desire to be a ballerina was more than just an adolescent fancy and she returned to New York to study at the American School of Ballet . |
| 14 | For some countries , including Britain and Spain , it seems likely that a softer , more automatic ERM would be better than both the existing ERM and no ERM at all . |
| 15 | But there is more meaning in the word slum than simply a foul street or yard : it denotes also a certain quality of housing . |
| 16 | It may nevertheless be better than even a reasonable harmonium or American organ . |
| 17 | Of the seats where Labour is second , there are 31 where it is behind by 5 per cent or less and a further 11 where the Liberal Democrat vote is more than twice the Tory majority and a differential split in Labour 's favour would produce a Labour gain . |
| 18 | Companies tend to choose to reorganise when existing structure ceases to serve its purpose rather than when a new opportunity or developmental stage is being planned . |
| 19 | At the same time it 's worth remembering that at least one contrast colour , even if only a large plant or a mass of flowers or cushions , will help to emphasize the clever harmony of the background colour scheme . |
| 20 | No doubt it was in part imagination , exaggerating the stillness , but there was no mistaking the impression that we were witnessing a general decline in fertility , a form of degeneration , if not the actual death that we imagined . |
| 21 | There are other possibilities too ( e.g. if both the semantic system and the direct link from visual word recognition to spoken word production are damaged reading via the lexical procedure will be impaired ) . |
| 22 | The purchaser will need to remember that a minimum delay of between 14 and 21 clear days may be needed in between exchange and completion if either an ordinary resolution or special resolution of shareholders is needed . |
| 23 | It is clear from extract ( 11 ) that some elements in a speaker 's personal topic do not become salient elements in the conversation if neither the other participant nor the speaker herself mention them again . |
| 24 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 25 | Of course , intricate burnishing must be done manually , since only the human hand and eye can correctly judge the perfect level of finish . |
| 26 | The only interesting point to emerge was that the Roman ditch continued an almost certainly unbroken course northwards past the medieval gate and its street to terminate 5.5 m ( 18 ft ) beyond them , while both the early rampart and the Roman wall continued for an unknown distance beyond this end of the ditch . |
| 27 | According to the results given in the Soviet central government newspaper Izvestiya after the second round of voting for the Moldavian Supreme Soviet , with all but 10 of the 380 seats filled , such dual endorsements meant that up to 80 per cent of the elected deputies were identified as communists , while both the Popular Front and Yedinstvo were reported each to be represented by around 30 per cent of deputies . |
| 28 | Since neither the sole trader nor the partnership is protected by limited liability , both may find difficulty in raising sufficient money to commence trading from a secure financial position . |
| 29 | While neither the National Union nor the peers could have a direct say in the choice of leader it was nevertheless thought desirable , if only for reasons of tact , to know their views . |
| 30 | Yet the choice of such a neutral form is as much a linguistic choice as any other , and may have implications which may be fruitfully examined in stylistics : the third-person pronoun , for example , distances the author and the reader from the character it denotes . |