Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US State Department 's Francis Fukuyama even dared to talk of the ‘ end of history ’ by which he meant that the ideological struggle between Marxist-Leninism and liberal democracy had resulted in such a clear victory for the latter that its predominance in future could not be challenged . |
| 2 | For the next half-hour Roland worked haphazardly , moving backwards and forwards in the Vico , half-looking for Proserpina , half-reading Ash 's notes , which was not easy , since they were written in various languages , in Ash 's annotating hand , which was reduced to a minute near-printing , not immediately identifiable as the same as his more generous poetic or letter-writing hand . |
| 3 | ‘ About the same as your instinctive reaction … guarded doubt . |
| 4 | SIGNIFIED ( myth ) and it is the elucidation of the latter that his analysis aims at . |
| 5 | It is in terms of the latter and their involvement in , and influence on , movements for social change that the project will be judged radical or not . |
| 6 | The CNAA has always embodied a mixed , bureaucratic-collegial model of regulation , but the emphasis seems now to be moving towards the latter as its validation role declines . |
| 7 | He was guilty of no more than his usual exaggeration when , at the age of twenty-four , he announced to a friend that he had read ‘ almost every thing ’ . |
| 8 | I made it my practice , not without some official misgivings , to work through the chairmen of the regional boards as a collective body , behaving , though they were my appointees , as no more than their primus inter pares . |
| 9 | Twenty years at the pinnacle of his profession had paid him handsomely and he accepted the accolades and the financial rewards as no more than his due . |
| 10 | When Harold Skimpole declares to him that ‘ The owners of such places as Chesney Wold … are public benefactors … good enough to maintain a number of delightful objects for the admiration and pleasure of us poor men ’ , Sir Leicester receives the compliment as no more than his due . |
| 11 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 12 | Listen , I goes , I do n't care who it was but you better not come and knock for no more because my Mum 's screwing with you . |
| 13 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 14 | Henry Leland was 74 when he won a contract to supply Liberty engines , with no more than his technical know-how , reputation and a factory site as collateral . |
| 15 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 16 | In the process earlier holistic concepts of healing associated with women healers were eclipsed by an atomistic approach which reduced patients to no more than their dysfunctioning parts . |
| 17 | Later this month Sam Torrance will set out from his home in Largs to embark on no less than his 20th season on the PGA European Tour . |
| 18 | It was because he had been summoned to do so , by no less than his paymaster , Edward , King of England . |
| 19 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |