Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Florey found more interest in studies of the circulation than in Sherrington 's own field , the nervous system , and presently moved to Cambridge with a studentship in pathology . |
| 2 | Lady Debrace seemed more concerned about Harry 's ability to drive her daughter safely in so powerful a motor car than about Madeleine 's reputation . |
| 3 | She misses it on Monday cos she goes to flute , she misses it , she wa- she sees it on Tuesday cos Chris takes Amy to ballet , she was , she misses it on Wednesday cos she goes skiing , she misses it on Thursday because we have to take Amy to uhum Brownies , she misses it on Friday cos of Amy 's swimming . |
| 4 | The next supply contracts which British Coal will negotiate with the big electricity generators would offer electricity users an even better deal because of coal 's success in reducing costs . |
| 5 | His father had suffered the humiliation because of Mills ' treachery and so the traitor should suffer in the same way . |
| 6 | Guatemala has relied heavily on external aid , especially from the United States , though this was suspended for a time under the Carter administration because of Guatemala 's human rights record . |
| 7 | ‘ The dinghy was wrapped around the front of the wheel strut and would n't leave the aircraft because of Derek 's frozen grip on the life-line . |
| 8 | Bob Carr , the state leader of the ALP , suggested that voters had rejected the coalition because of Greiner 's " arrogance " . |
| 9 | An agreement on flights had been reached by the Israeli and Soviet national airlines in December 1989 but had not been put into practice because of Moscow 's concerns over the settlement of Soviet Jews in the occupied territories [ see also p. 37748 ] . |
| 10 | No figures are available to compare to those in this study as to people 's perception of the causes of urinary incontinence . |
| 11 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
| 12 | Underwriters in the insurance markets in London and New York are making no bones about being more willing to insure craft launched with the American orbiter than with Europe 's Ariane rocket , which has suffered a number of teething problems . |
| 13 | Donna and Julie were more interested in the layout of the building than in Paxton 's nostalgic musings . |
| 14 | Yet , given their potential influence , few outstanding sportsmen have used their position to challenge the notion of the legitimacy of sport as a way out and a method of social mobility , and few have pointed out that blacks ' continued domination of sport is more a reflection of limitations in other areas of a society permeated with racism than of blacks ' talent . |
| 15 | In Charles , the rural past plays a more traditional , but still surprising , part than in Busi 's novel . |
| 16 | But Mr and Mrs Clare were even more interested in their son 's marriage than in Brazil 's religion . |
| 17 | Because of his interest in the properties of pictorial volumes , the device of combining into a single image various views of an object , one of the fundamental features of Cubism , was worked out more consistently in Picasso 's work than in Braque 's . |
| 18 | BAS director is withholding detailed comments on the criticisms until after parliament 's public accounts committee has discussed the NAO 's report next month . |
| 19 | Among them will be Mr Martin Lee , expelled last week from the post-1997 Basic Law drafting committee because of Beijing 's wrath over his joint leadership of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriot Movement in China . |
| 20 | A man who also honoured God , but more important than that he was a near kinsman of Ruth , or ra or rather Naomi rather , and there also of Ruth because of Ruth 's late husband . |
| 21 | They were not much respected in the village because of John 's laziness . |
| 22 | Fig. 7.5(a) shows the same set of keys as in Fig. 7.3(a) , but stored in a B-tree . |
| 23 | In particular they assumed that it was possible , at any given moment , to make reasonably precise comparisons of the real strength of the States concerned , to estimate accurately the advantages of Britain 's wealth as against Russia 's population or Prussia 's efficient bureaucracy . |
| 24 | And it 's less an explicit critique of men than a consensus shared between women — they share it as much with their grandmothers as with women 's liberation . |
| 25 | One way or another , it was vital that she left sanctuary until after Joan 's return … |
| 26 | One might rewrite Lewis 's phrase to say that in Valinor , as opposed to Eden , the Fall came when conscious creatures became ‘ more interested in their own creations than in God 's ’ . |
| 27 | As the English were forced back , their archers belatedly came into action , but showered more arrows into the backs of their own troops than into Bruce 's . |
| 28 | Though ostensibly child-centred , it paid rather more attention to teachers and classrooms than to children 's learning . |
| 29 | Accurately-timed aerial photographs of the water-line together with tide-tables gave contour maps of the beaches accurate to horizontal metres and vertical centimetres , There was very nearly a breach of security because of Bernal 's desire to be on the beaches by D + 1 . |
| 30 | ‘ But it 's been a complicated situation ; we 've had to cancel or reschedule gigs with Cozy 's band because of Brian 's thing , and there was a further complication … |