Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peace in the harbour area was undisturbed , except for the insistent and mildly annoying buzz of flies . |
| 2 | Most building materials are porous to some extent , although in a well-designed and properly maintained building the absorbed moisture can evaporate harmlessly to the outside . |
| 3 | Some mutations , however , permit the fly to survive , although in an altered and normally less adaptive state . |
| 4 | The command hierarchy in such an enterprise may be more clearly structured , and responsibilities better delimited , than in a smaller and more informal partnership . |
| 5 | It locates bureaucracy in a class context rather than in a constitutional or even institutional context . |
| 6 | On the other end of the childbearing period , infant mortality in the maternal age group 40 years and over is also very high ; in the 39 WFS countries about 24 per cent higher than in the 30–39 and about 30 per cent higher than in the 20–29 maternal age groups . |
| 7 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 8 | In translating from a language such as Arabic to a language such as English , the unmarked predicator + subject structure would normally be translated by an equally unmarked structure such as subject + predicator rather than by an identical but highly marked structure which places the predicator in initial position . |
| 9 | This would enhance the authority of international law because of the inherent and self-evidently moral qualities of such an impartial legal process ; the ‘ bindingness ’ of international law would be increased because the aims of the enterprise — the peaceful resolution of international conflicts — would be assumed to be universally desirable . |
| 10 | The Front Line peace camp was not difficult to find , mainly because of the hundred or so handwritten signs ( most on the back of crisp boxes ) saying ‘ Front Line ’ with a badly drawn arrow , which had been threaded into the wire perimeter fence . |
| 11 | He reasoned that they must exist because of the fixed and numerically simple proportions in which elements combine to form compounds . |
| 12 | Although the research reviewed below indicates some of the approaches made to these problems many difficulties still remain , partly because of the rich and sometimes ambiguous nature of art itself but also because of the value that is placed upon the validity of individual response in these areas . |
| 13 | Dougal shivered , partly because of the cold and partly because polite conversation was a bizarre activity for Lorton to choose . |
| 14 | Wherever the records of mankind 's history and prehistory are to be found , whether in the ancient and strangely charactered , but nevertheless understandable by the learned , writings of bygone civilisations , or in the numerous findings of decades of archaeological investigations into the past history of human life , there is always evidence of belief in some form of ‘ god ’ . |
| 15 | And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population . |
| 16 | As to the unfair and entirely predictable venom that was poured on the head of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) a moment ago , it is increasingly impossible to have a sensible talk about sensitive matters without such abuse . |