Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |
| 2 | Although public awareness of the Third Reich is probably greater in Germany than in the US , the organisers were right not to cut down on the documentary material . |
| 3 | When she was about to remonstrate after hitting a less than perfect iron aboard the 7th green in the final round , Jim put up a salutary hand by way of saying ‘ stop ’ . |
| 4 | Suter , whose interests span car parts to haircare products , was heavily in demand after the group more than tripled profits in the first half . |
| 5 | Suter , whose interests span car parts to haircare products , was heavily in demand after the group more than tripled profits in the first half . |
| 6 | O'Rourke 's voice was unruffled as ever , unmoved by the less than flattering reference to the Sixth Fleet , from which he was on temporary loan . |
| 7 | But I saw torches moving , less powerful than lighted matches against the first crack of tarnished gold in the eastern sky . |
| 8 | At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost . |
| 9 | The fossil record seemed to indicate sudden steps rather than continuous development , although new discoveries over the next few decades would help the evolutionists ' case . |
| 10 | A century of coal-mining activity had made a depressing scene of this valley until imaginative landscaping during the last two decades transformed it . |
| 11 | Scarborough remained a prosperous if small town until the seventeenth century when , after the discovery of medicinal springs , it became a fashionable spa . |
| 12 | The week of 12 – 19 April provided decisive proof of the last of these considerations . |
| 13 | To prepare his reforms , Ivan summoned the first Zemsky sobor ( 1549 ) , the consultative body destined to play an important if erratic role in the next century of Muscovite history . |
| 14 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 15 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 16 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 17 | At RHA this Autumn another show with a European flavour , The Hungarian Renaissance , acknowledges the rebirth of contemporary Eastern Europe , showing the work of many contemporary Hungarian artists as well as outstanding artefacts from the 15th century . |
| 18 | The independent Turkish Human Rights Foundation reported 179 allegations made by criminal as well as political suspects in the first six months of 1992 alone . |
| 19 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 20 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |
| 21 | Cairncross ( 1949 ) has argued that , as rural-urban migration in the nineteenth century was greater in the more prosperous farming areas surrounding towns , the attraction , or ‘ pull ’ , of alternative jobs and higher wages must have been more important than the ‘ push ’ from the decline of farm jobs and the low wages in farming . |