Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 2 | Leipzig church calls for calm as unity movement gathers strength . |
| 3 | Since that day of Dirac 's discovery the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those in the know . |
| 4 | All a far cry from the practices of old when panel pressing was labour intensive and slow . |
| 5 | Unlike the days of old when typography and design were learned over generations , desktop publishing has provided a fast track where we can take ideas and try them out to see if they work . |
| 6 | The choice of Montini as pope was an enormous encouragement to those working for change in and through the Council . |
| 7 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 8 | part of the process of universal involvement in recognition of Artai as Lord of the Earth now necessitated the removal of the Dragon Throne — a solid piece of carving of the weight of seven thousand diram — with its occupant from the top of the plinth down to the concourse from whence it was destined to be borne on a processional route on the shoulders of teams of men of every degree in the Khanate , most of whom had been selected by lot , although there were a few who had paid out considerable sums in gold koban for the privilege of inclusion . |
| 9 | Dummett , architect of anti-realism as successor to verificationism , offers the most introductory account I know in Dummett ( 1978 , ch. 10 ) but if you are new to this area you would do better to wait until you have read ch. 9 of the present book before attempting it . |
| 10 | December : appointment of al-Jaburi as Defence Minister [ see p. 37927 ] and Gen. Abdel-Jabber Khalil al-Shanshal as Minister of State for Military Affairs . |
| 11 | ‘ Let me remind you , Brother , that your own superiors have recognised the Count of Mortain as King . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , but there are other ways of winning than fighting . ’ |
| 13 | This desire should govern every aspect of living as desire for health dominates a sick man — it is the very mainspring of action , " rote of al wirkynge " ( 47.558 ) . |
| 14 | But what does matter is that relegation of drama to the same order of non-seriousness as game , revellings and disportings , permitted an ‘ it 's only a game ’ attitude — both dismissive and tolerant — to creep in . |
| 15 | Take the centre of mass as origin and the orbit to lie in the xOy plane with the masses along the x axis at time zero . |
| 16 | The sky was turning several shades of blue as night gave way to day . |
| 17 | It can be seen as applying principles of ESP to the general curriculum of school education , presenting language as a service for the achievement of other than language objectives . |
| 18 | Entwined with the question of politics and of film-making as self-expression — a matter of class privilege ( Diaz-Abaya ) or cultural struggle ( Dhanraj ) — -was the issue of women 's sexual objectification . |
| 19 | Howell ( this volume ) takes up some of these issues in her paper where she argues against the interpretation of ritual as catharsis among the Chewong . |
| 20 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 21 | Appointment of Berri as Speaker — Appointment of Hariri as Prime Minister — New government |
| 22 | Excise duty in most countries is lower for unleaded than 4-star , so some garages are allegedly buying lead free at a lower rate of tax and selling it on to customers as leaded . |
| 23 | I 'll admit from the start that my own attempt to arpeggiate the Gambale way sounds more like Sooty than Sweep picking , but I console myself by thinking that I should n't let a signature model impose another player 's personality on my own style ! |
| 24 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 25 | Continuous-process technology offers more scope for self-actualisation than machine and assembly-line technologies . |
| 26 | ‘ This particular part of Wychwood wo n't be coming down , Boz , but it will be passing into private hands-as part of the manor 's lands . |
| 27 | In the West African slave trade , a pidgin form of English ( i.e. a pidgin with English as lexifier ) was used for communication between the English slavers and their African counterparts , as well as among those Africans involved in the trade who did not have any other language in common . |
| 28 | The word was brought west by Xenophon , who introduced it into Greek when describing the fabulous garden built by the Persian Emperor Cyrus at Sardis ; from the Greek paradeisoi it passed into Latin as paradisum ; and hence into Middle English as paradis . |
| 29 | They fly piston engined aircraft for the most part which are subject , amongst other things , to carburettor icing which will stop an engine in flight even if the ambient temperature is as much as 10°C above freezing unless carburettor heating is selected at the appropriate time . |
| 30 | Deduction at source was hardly possible with other than government employees , nor on the recipients of rents and interest , but Addington 's division of his tax into five schedules , A to E , was not only a major step in the direction of obtaining accurate assessments but remained the basis of income taxation into our own time . |