Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other factors were deployed , but the standpoint of the report was predominantly that of the legal profession and local affinities , rather than the interests of the accused or the more efficient despatch of business . |
| 2 | Now the ship greyhound outline of a frigate but rather that of a clumsy old sow with submarine piglets suckling beside her . |
| 3 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 4 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 5 | Whitehead Mann has taken on some of the highest salaried job searches in Britain , comparable with Russell Reynolds ' recruiting of Bob Bauman for Beecham ; an assignment on behalf of a major British company looking for a chief executive to run their operations in Australia earned the firm £333 000 , according to the popular press ( on the basis that the successful candidate was to be paid an annual salary approaching £1m . ) . |
| 6 | The stations of the South African Boer Republics , themselves huge concessions to the modern world which the Boers would originally much rather have done without , took on some of the dour , flinty character of Dutch Reformed Calvinism . |
| 7 | This urban base once distinguished these movements from such parties in Europe , although extreme-right phenomena there in the 1980s have ( with exceptions ) now taken on some of the distributional features of the British extreme right 's support . |
| 8 | Since some of the restrictions have been taken off , team members are beginning to take on some of the old supervisors tasks — requesting stores , requesting maintenance , in general , being more responsible . |
| 9 | The Trust says the estate is botanically some of the richest land the National Trust owns with a variety of trees , natural grasses , orchids , marsh flowers , insects and bird life . |
| 10 | Right Some of the commoner types of fern-like foliage from the Carboniferous Such foliage often belongs to the seed ferns , rather than the true ferns |
| 11 | Without greater honesty , we shall not combat effectively some of the extreme and ugly negativism which is widespread and which is epitomised by the derogatory phrases which Isaacs ( 1981 ) describes as ‘ defamatory ’ like ‘ old Crumble ’ . |
| 12 | Although Europe is the original home of the cat show and of competitive , controlled breeding , remarkably few of the fifty basic breeds come from that part of the world . |
| 13 | Traditional stylistic terms ( eg that of the periodic sentence — see 7.5.3 ) although often ill-defined , seem to refer to such configurations of categories . |
| 14 | The fault is not entirely that of the sanitary authorities or of the immediate landlords … |
| 15 | His look as he glanced across at her resembled so much that of a shamefaced small boy that she found it hard to control a smile . |
| 16 | If , in the lifetime of Gerard , their family world appeared to be very much that of the Dutch reformed and Huguenot expatriate communities in London , their social horizons expanded considerably after the Walpole marriages . |
| 17 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 18 | Garden design , especially that of the small garden , appears on the Ward Lock list in two titles : Roger Sweetinburgh 's Creative Garden Features ( September 1992 , £14.99 , 0 7063 7094 5 ) , and Small Gardens by Gill Page et al ( March , £8.99 , 0 7063 7153 4 ) . |
| 19 | Finally this anthropological study will investigate political reactions to this recent development , especially that of the Communist Party which is locally dominant . |
| 20 | Widely in evidence in the ancient world , it was regarded as a powerful protection against evil forces , especially that of the evil eye . |
| 21 | His Remarks touching Geography especially that of the British Isles ( 1822 ) proposed the introduction of Napoleonic departments , while his Horae Viaticae ( 1836 ) included a novel about a radical reforming pope . |
| 22 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 23 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 24 | Why have SSDs achieved so little despite the massive increase in resources allocated to them since they were first established in 1971 ? |
| 25 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |
| 26 | It is very unfortunate therefore that , in Britain especially , social anthropologists have , on the whole , displayed towards colleagues in adjacent disciplines so little of the ecumenical tolerance with which they habitually approach exotic tribesmen . |
| 27 | So little of the minor traces are required , that organic manures invariably contain enough of all that is needed . |
| 28 | It is interesting that Leapor makes so little of the high perspective . |
| 29 | But why so little from the Indian sub-continent ? |
| 30 | Ellen and I both assumed that Sweetman 's interest in Wavebreaker had been merely that of a prospective charterer who wanted to reconnoitre the boat 's amenities . |