Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all a bit iff in the clouds |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 4 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 5 | All these senses are much easier to satisfy in the paddocked horse than in the stabled horse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ? |
| 8 | 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) ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His body bore no sign of violence except for a weal around his neck . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Our cooker is about 35 years old , but is still in excellent condition except for the sealing ring . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 23 | Instead of the Michels notion of a radical movement being compromised by a leadership more interested in its own future than in the goals of the movement , a more fruitful theme from the social movements literature is Smelser 's distinction between various ‘ means ’ . |
| 24 | Fears were thus expressed that , while the ratio of all dependents to the total population might be no greater in the immediate future than in the past , the cost per dependent had grown and would continue to grow . |
| 25 | Many more people in the future than in the past will benefit from the kind of economic support which people give to their relatives through post mortem transfers . |
| 26 | There will also be , as certainly we can tell , more very old people in the future than in the past , something also clear from table 5.4 . |
| 27 | You talked a lot about computers being more friendly in the future than in the past . |
| 28 | Groupe Speciale Mobile communication in France is more expensive and has achieved less penetration than in Germany , and cellular overall has much less penetration than in the UK . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh my boy , my boy , home at last ! ’ cried Mrs Clare , who at that moment cared no more for Angel 's lack of religion than for the dust on his clothes . |
| 30 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |