Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 2 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 3 | Opinion poll results showed that he was consistently more popular than Bolger with the electorate , and many commentators expected him to launch a challenge for the party leadership . |
| 4 | For this is the Tetley Bitterworld of BIVOUAC , slightly inbred young Middle Englanders who would much rather plod their way to the top than dance with Nirvana , learns KEITH ‘ Plodcore ’ CAMERON . |
| 5 | The ex-Manchester United star admitted : ‘ I 'd rather quit at the top than drop to a lower level . |
| 6 | This author believes that the expert procedure is better suited than arbitration to what is essentially a valuation exercise . |
| 7 | Wood 's figures of 8–0-20–0 tell their story , but he was more wayward than Jeh in line and length . |
| 8 | Indeed , we will need something like this if travel to other stars , let alone to other galaxies , is to be a practical proposition in the future . |
| 9 | Nor should the novelty be exaggerated of abolitionists advancing petitions from a relatively popular base and on grounds of the general interest in 1788 — relatively popular because calculation from Drescher 's estimate of 60,000 signatures in 1788 suggests an average of 600 signatures per petition and , with Manchester producing 10,639 , some were clearly much smaller than the average . |
| 10 | I say this because contact with the next of kin may reveal that the patient has made an anticipatory choice which , if clearly established and applicable in the circumstances — two major ‘ ifs ’ — would bind the practitioner . |
| 11 | If it was not until later that the accused discovered that he had been overpaid it is suggested that the money no longer belongs to another because ownership of it passes on payment . |
| 12 | These carriers of non-penetrant or late onset genes may be heterozygous at codon 129 since heterozygosity at codon 129 might be expected to delay or protect against the onset of clinical disease . |
| 13 | Further problems identified by Kellett in this week 's journal centre on the inequity and illogicality of NHS care being free while care under the rubric of the community , even if provided in an institution , carries a means tested price tag . |
| 14 | From the literature it is not clear whether prolongation of therapy beyond four months yield a higher response rate . |
| 15 | I think it is doubtful whether evidence of attempts at self-injury and threats to others whilst in secure accommodation could be evidence on which the likelihood of self-harm or threats when at large could be assessed . |
| 16 | As Butler and Stokes point out , " It is difficult not to see this as evidence of the acceptance of the view that British society is divided into two primary classes . |
| 17 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
| 18 | Chung found that only 7% of the mispricing signals indicated an underpricing of the future , and he interpreted this as evidence against the presence of a tax timing option ( see Section 5.3.4 ) , which would lead to an increase in the number of underpricings . |
| 19 | It was only natural that we should interpret all this as preparation for release , that we would go home looking fit and not too pale . |
| 20 | To begin with , your mother should n't oversympathise with her when you go out , as the dog will regard this as approval of her nervous behaviour . |
| 21 | Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it . |
| 22 | The answers were clear as ash in a smouldering grate . |
| 23 | To him and to most of his European friends , it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming . |
| 24 | Kavner is n't clear as crystal on what exactly changed his mind — though he claims it was n't the money — and claims not to know what persuaded Noorda to push it in November when it all started to happen . |
| 25 | There were cases in which bishops were appointed in opposition to the will of a ruler , as when Dynamius , the patrician of Provence , appointed Marcellus as bishop of Uzès , despite royal support for Jovinus . |
| 26 | Norway , with the third-highest tax burden in 1989 , had an annual average growth rate of 3.1 % in the period 1976–91 , nearly 25% above the OECD average of 2.5% per annum , and ranked as high as second in terms of growth rate . |
| 27 | Eighth on the money list in 1984 with earnings to the tune of £8,957 , she won £21,234 in 1985 to finish as high as second behind Laura Davies . |
| 28 | A person with no connection with the occult can occasionally experience this when cat-napping during the day . |
| 29 | ( He does not even make any special point about the dishonesty which there would seem to be in doing this when acceptance of those claims is not the cause of one 's own attitude — to do so would be , from his point of view , to play the moralist rather than the philosopher who should simply describe ethical discourse . ) |
| 30 | The Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) is designating 1993 as Year of Youth Sailing in order to attract more young people to take up dinghy sailing and windsurfing . |