Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The water trough was empty except for a layer of scum , a beer bottle and some sweet wrappers . |
| 32 | The incinerator was empty except for a trace of carbon ash . |
| 33 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |
| 34 | It was empty except for an ox and ass who snorted and brayed a greeting . |
| 35 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 36 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 37 | The development of more flexible systems of access and qualifications ( in particular modular credit schemes ) means that the educational life-pattern for any one individual is likely to be less rigidly linear than in the past , a situation which is foreshadowed by developments in the USA ( Stacey et al . |
| 38 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 39 | Yet , for some , physical work at night seems more demanding than during the daytime and this is clearly another disadvantage for the night-worker . |
| 40 | Although European markets will be later than Britain in feeling any economic recovery coming from America , the bonus for investors is that share prices remain relatively undervalued and dividend policies , traditionally less generous than in America or Britain are now catching up , chivvied by foreign and domestic investors who are more demanding than in the past . |
| 41 | Until the death of her sister , the Duchess of Alba , in 1860 , Eugénie would herself occasionally waltz with her husband at these ‘ Mondays ’ , but from 1860 onwards she rarely danced in public except as a duty . |
| 42 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 43 | Although through the efforts of Charlemagne , who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in the year 800 , the centre of European culture began to move northwards from the Mediterranean , the Viking raids of the ninth and tenth centuries delayed the full effects of this until about the year 1000 . |
| 44 | Starting at Easter , the bookings would continue more or less uninterrupted until after the autumn half-term at the end of October . |
| 45 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 46 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 47 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |
| 48 | He says that no , the pond is n't just full of green slime and mud , there are thousands of tadpoles , which in themselves are interesting because of the way they metamorphose . |
| 49 | But um also in the eighteen century , the eighteenth century is quite interesting because of the way in which sexuality was conceptualised then . |
| 50 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 51 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 52 | The ‘ rational ’ and utilitarian planks of the success of the Green Movement are also interesting because of the burden they place on the importance of good science . |
| 53 | Mr Daly said the hostel had proved to be popular because of the range of facilities offered . |
| 54 | Irish detectives arrested James Rudman at a remote farmhouse in Co Kerry last month , just an hour before he would have been legally free because of a loophole in the law . |
| 55 | I regularly argue with the Table Office that we can table amendments to Bills which make provision for orders that are amendable because of the census legislation . |
| 56 | So he persuades his man with a natural talent for the proper administration of worldly affairs that to neglect this because of a preoccupation with spiritual meditation could be unwise . |
| 57 | We know this because of a telegram sent by Kirk at 2300 hrs that night to the State Department in Washington , asking " urgently " for advice [ KP 107 ] . |
| 58 | Was this because of the wording of the items or the unfamiliarity of the task ? |
| 59 | I enjoy this because of the diversity and intellectual challenge ’ . |
| 60 | Organisations are neglecting this because of the emphasis on technical expertise . ’ |