Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 2 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 3 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 4 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 5 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 6 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 7 | That enjoyed being playfully submissive , because of the many delights she knew would follow . |
| 8 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 9 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |