Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts .
2 The Labour Party conference defeated Communist affiliation at the request of the National Executive and with the approval of most union officials other than some in the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union .
3 Comet debris , as its name suggests , is derived from comets , and much of this debris lies in orbits that are far more eccentric than most of the asteroids ' orbits , and which in many cases carry debris far beyond Jupiter .
4 Quite where this freight profit would arise is a puzzle , because most of the railways ' profitable coal-carrying lines are closed under this option .
5 It should be noted that most of these are neutral on the optimism/pessimism scale , while some of the characters ' proverbs approach the meaningless .
6 The former have all the dash and flair of the neighbouring wines of Aÿ , while those of the Clos des Goisses , which belong exclusively to the house of Philipponnat , are high in alcohol , somewhat richer and possess great longevity .
7 To test whether each of the participants ' before and after scores were simply a fluke occurrence , as distinct from a genuine increase in alcohol knowledge , a Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test was undertaken using SPSS and the result proved statistically significant , that is , Z= - 10. 1839 , 2-tailed , P=0.0000 .
8 After half an hour or so , when some of the journalists ' drinking arms were a blur , Jefferson banged on the table .
9 Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message .
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