Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For parasites whose offspring infect the offspring of their host ( vertical transmission ) , any behaviour by the parasite that decreases the fecundity of its host ( and thereby that of the parasite itself ) is unlikely to be favoured by natural selection . |
| 2 | Now Norman would have er hopefully explained most that on the phone . |
| 3 | Even Picasso and Braque , who shared their discoveries so intimately that for a while they came to share a common vision , looked , it will be seen , at Cézanne in different ways . |
| 4 | Doctrinaire Anglicization marked some of these changes , but Somerset 's enduring reputation was rather that of an autocrat , as appeared from his conflict with leaders of English-speaking opinion in the colonial community , George Greig , John Fairbairn , and Thomas Pringle , who successfully used the governor 's quarrels with two reprobate settlers to demand press freedom . |
| 5 | Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying . |
| 6 | William Parker takes on some of the baritone material with unabashed lyricism and plangency , leaving Elly Ameling to bring refreshing charm and beauty of tone to the soprano Mélodies . |
| 7 | The aim is to ease the stress of house-buying by giving advice and taking on some of the workload . |
| 8 | The issuing house will underwrite the issue ( i.e. agree to buy up any unsold shares ) for a fee , and will generally pass on some of the risk to sub-underwriters , who are usually large institutional investors . |
| 9 | The surprising thing is how little some of the room schemes cost . |
| 10 | Yet her face with its heavy jowls , hangover eyes and early-morning stubble was entirely that of a man . |
| 11 | The feeling is very much that of a country house hotel in the heart of London , a retreat from the busy streets outside . |
| 12 | Guests eat together around an elegantly decorated table and the atmosphere is very much that of a dinner party between friends . |
| 13 | It does seem that Ross 's view is ( as he claimed ) very much that of the man in the street ( or at least in the streets with which Ross was familiar ) . |
| 14 | The concern here , however , is not so much that of the level of such benefits but their spatial distribution . |
| 15 | It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 . |
| 16 | Even authoritarian regimes , if they are to last , must be able to count on some measure of consent , though not necessarily that of a majority . |
| 17 | It was unmistakably the same girl as in the photographs ; especially that on the cabinet of curiosa . |
| 18 | But even if the analysis is internally consistent , as a prescriptive policy it appears intellectually naïve in the light of historical evidence , especially that for the period between the wars . |
| 19 | So Castells was the pioneer of what came to be seen as the ‘ new urban sociology ’ and , paradoxically , The City and the Grassroots seemed to recover some of the themes ( especially that of the experience of the immediate spatial and social setting ) which he had earlier rejected in the Chicago School . |
| 20 | Other features derived from blues are the use of a rift ( the two-note idea which starts the song off and forms the basis of the refrain ) , the use of call-and-response ( between vocal and guitar ) , and the instrumental styles , especially that of the guitar . |
| 21 | The surplus population of England , especially that of the Home Counties and the Midlands , was siphoned off to the capital . |
| 22 | In most agencies , the task of deciding what strategy should be followed in developing an advertising campaign is basically that of the account executive , working together with the creative group . |
| 23 | If one man would pay generously to become Nawab , then so would another , and the attraction of gifts paid out upon a change of ruler led to the deposition of three Nawabs in rapid succession , which reduced the position to one which was obviously that of a puppet of the Company . |
| 24 | Suddenly from behind that bush he hears a rustle and some movement , obviously that of an animal . |
| 25 | TRAINED observers in the press gallery have been rather surprised that the behaviour of MPs has changed so little as a result of the television cameras ' arrival . |
| 26 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 27 | ‘ But see , I 've talked enough already , and you still know so little about the scheme itself . |
| 28 | AS I HAVE not attended a Booksellers Association conference since Eastbourne 1987 , I was surprised by the fact that the 1993 conference was somewhat inward-looking and said so little about the consumer . |
| 29 | He knew so little about the serf question that at first he thought it involved no more than granting the peasants their personal freedom . |
| 30 | Why has so little of the development in Docklands ‘ trickled down ’ to benefit the people of the East End of London ? |