Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption that transformations represent paraphrase relations has been undermined , for example , by consideration of cases in which the passive and deletion transformations illustrated in [ 4 ] and [ 7 ] do not preserve the same " logical content " : Many arrows did not hit the target The target was not hit by many arrows . |
| 2 | The temperature at which the solid and liquid are in equilibrium is called the freezing point . |
| 3 | They should understand the operation of some major transformations , and be able to interpret , and to produce , the diagrammatic forms ( both tree diagrams and brackets ) by which the deep and surface structures of sentences are conventionally represented . |
| 4 | In France the process by which the administrative and business elites give one another interesting employment is called pantouflage which literally means jumping in and out of one another 's trousers ( Birnbaum , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | It can help older people realize that they are not the only ones with problems , a belief which the isolated and depressive nature of personal circumstances can sometimes encourage . |
| 6 | The cause in both cases appears to be the strength of catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist popular consciousness and the way in which the cultural and material interests of the subordinate classes appear to be represented by the alliances themselves and their institutions . |
| 7 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 8 | Bronzes are created by building sand moulds of a plaster original , in itself a skilled and labour intensive job . |
| 9 | Bronzes are created by building sand moulds of a plaster original , in itself a skilled and labour intensive job . |
| 10 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 11 | She the heroine entrapped by family expectations ; he a faithful and stoic , if unimaginative hero . |
| 12 | You should also consider whether you need a licence , and if so , what the structural and staffing implications will be . |
| 13 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 14 | But she knew what a constant and life-deforming worry the money had been . |