Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect is unlikely to be compensated by a corresponding delay in cash outlays , and of course applies to total sales revenue rather than to simply the net cash flow , the difference between inflows and outflows . |
| 2 | As time draws nearer to the present the incidence of today 's members joining obviously increases , although by far the vast majority of today 's members are of 20 years standing or less . |
| 3 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 4 | The wet spell has been replaced by a cold , dry front which will last until at least the New Year . |
| 5 | I decided not to protest , because at least the whole Report would be published , and teachers would be able to read the total rationale . |
| 6 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 7 | At twenty , he still wants to become a muleteer , though by now the Spanish location has been narrowed to that of Andalusia . |