Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version . |
| 2 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 3 | Most authorities lacked such a committee before this except in a shadow , non-statutory form within the majority party caucus . |
| 4 | o overall er the plan looks reasonably sound except for the which er reflect in the price . |
| 5 | The floor was sound except near the wall where there were rat-holes in the planks . |
| 6 | The middle course valleys are broader and the valley sides are less steep than in the upper course . |
| 7 | The report is more interesting than by the member for South East Derbyshire er not that there 's much sex in it but if er er i it 's more interesting er sexual favours provided by B C C I officials to certain persons affiliated er with the firm . |
| 8 | The arithmetic in the Lords is messier than in the Commons . |
| 9 | The grass is greener than in a commercial for lawn-mowers ; something , as at a Test match or at Wimbldeon , hangs in the air or on the hum of the crowd 's voice . |
| 10 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 11 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 12 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 13 | Shaped like straw mushrooms , they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body . |
| 14 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 15 | ‘ I can tell you he 's running quicker than at the same time last year , ’ said the Welshman , confident that Christie is capable of matching Canadian Bruny Surin 's 1993 world best of 6.45 . |
| 16 | While this is admittedly still a lengthy period , it is significantly quicker than under the ordinary procedure . |
| 17 | For the first time in 42 years , the seven biggest companies reported a smaller rise in assets in the financial year to March 31st than in the year before , as uncompetitive savings policies matured and were not renewed . |
| 18 | The wide entitlement to reliefs and rebates , which the government insisted were more generous than under the rates ; the existence of safety nets to redistribute income between certain authorities ; and the immediate introduction of capping all fudged the relationship between councils and voters . |
| 19 | Saviours of England 's Test image as the 1980s gave way to the 1990s , he is yet lugubrious except in the most private environs and incurably introverted . |
| 20 | He returned to England in 1844 but was unemployed except for a brief tenure of the post of governor of the new prison in Birmingham in 1849–51 , before dismissal . |
| 21 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 22 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 23 | The anatomy is also more strongly stressed in this than in the earlier statue , perhaps to tell against reflections in the shiny metal ; and this is something that becomes even more marked in succeeding generations . |
| 24 | In several species , including humans , colonic VFA absorption in vivo is associated with HCO 3 - secretion and a lower luminal pCO 2 than in the absence of VFAs . |
| 25 | Having denied that we may ever legitimately interfere with the liberty of another except on the grounds of self-protection , Mill ( 1910 ) asserts : |
| 26 | The exercise of new found autonomy has been more apparent in the cultural than in the diplomatic sphere . |
| 27 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 28 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 29 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 30 | The British government bought a controlling interest in Anglo-Persian , which from then on operated in Iran on terms much more favourable to the British than to the Iranians . |