Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cuts down processing and response time of calls where in a Distributed Relational Database Architecture environment , client requests have to be translated at the server , which increases system overhead and makes database access less flexible . |
| 2 | It 's all a bit iff in the clouds |
| 3 | The last stanza of ‘ Exequy ’ is a summing-up of the kind of rituals described by Frazer in Adonis Attis Osiris where in the declining year the representative of the year-spirit was put to death , often by burning . |
| 4 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 5 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 6 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 7 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 8 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 9 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 10 | All these senses are much easier to satisfy in the paddocked horse than in the stabled horse . |
| 11 | Moreover , if the Moon was already in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and if there was more spare material between the Earth and the Moon than beyond the Moon , then the rather greater number of large basins on the near side than on the far side can be explained . |
| 12 | Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ? |
| 13 | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) . |
| 14 | Once the light had been turned out again , slowly , inch by inch , Charlie continued his crab-like advance , now more fearful of a stray bullet from his own side than from the enemy 's . |
| 15 | His body bore no sign of violence except for a weal around his neck . |
| 16 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 17 | This is a trading practice ( more common on the Continent than in the United Kingdom ) whereby a trader organises a coach or boat trip and then during the trip gets the travellers to buy or offer to buy goods or services . |
| 18 | Its companions emerged and approached the small fire , but stayed warily at a distance , more afraid of the flame than of the humans who had kindled it , Tallis decided . |
| 19 | The evident plagiarism which underlay her ‘ prodigious ’ contributions to polymer science was too obvious to require special demonstration except to the inquiring scientific minds of the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry which elected Elena Ceauşescu to its membership . |
| 20 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |
| 21 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 22 | And as a Warsaw Pact leader they know him more intimately in the Kremlin than in the West . |
| 23 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 24 | Although , by definition an entertainment industry , the BBC 's status was more in common with a Civil Service Department than with the opportunistic realms of Theatre and Film . |
| 25 | Because the interest is added to the loan from the outset , you will pay off more interest in the early months than in the later ones . |
| 26 | Strangely , the school probably now has firmer links , and certainly greater knowledge , of the tropics and hygiene than in the pioneering days of Ronald Ross and Patrick Manson 80 or more years ago . |
| 27 | The Channel Islands are physically much closer to the French coast than to the English and the island breeds have a certain affinity with the breeds of Brittany and Normandy . |
| 28 | Our cooker is about 35 years old , but is still in excellent condition except for the sealing ring . |
| 29 | I have explained why it is difficult to use laboratory experiments and controlled trials in social research except in the cases of narrowly focused psychological studies . |
| 30 | Surprisingly , there is usually less reduction in ‘ g ’ during an incipient spin or full spin than in a straight stall and , apart from the initial apprehension , these manoeuvres affect sensitive people less than normal stall recoveries . |