Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vologsky was to be ready to fly on or about July the fourth . |
| 2 | In the various USSR states seeking autonomy , in Northern Ireland or in Palestine the contingent circumstances are again wholly unique . |
| 3 | Everyone looked at everyone else , except for Zöe the environmental lawyer , who was as eager and friendly as your dad 's new girlfriend . |
| 4 | Towns in the pre-Tokugawa years had , except for Kyoto the imperial capital , been fairly small scale . |
| 5 | The subtitle is An Allegorical Apology for Christianity , Reason and Romanticism , and it is important to remember that for Lewis the three things went together . |
| 6 | His criticism of Lévy-Bruhl for overstressing the distance between the savage and the modern mind shows that for Eliot the two were linked , but Lévy-Bruhl 's stress on the different , apparently unreasonable nature of the savage leads to the modern Sweeney whose world is far removed from the sweet reason of Emerson . |
| 7 | Many would say that as George the Sixth , he succeeded where Edward had failed . |
| 8 | Although for Scotland the main deficiency was only in the lack of HMIs with primary school experience , the Select Committee was concerned about the overall balance in England and Wales . |
| 9 | She first made an impression in an adaptation of J. B. Priestley 's rambling tale about a group of travelling performers , The Good Companions ( 1933 ) , and followed that with Friday the Thirteenth ( 1933 ) , which recounts the activities of a group of characters immediately before the crash of the bus in which they are riding . |
| 10 | It must be regarded as probable , therefore , that under Aethelbald the Mercian position in areas bordering on other kingdoms was consolidated at the expense of surrounding neighbours . |
| 11 | Turning to investment banking and I should just remind you that er , we take fifty percent of Brothers ' profits and ten percent of New York and Paris and given the conditions , given the environment last year , I do n't think need be ashamed of the performance er , although in London the only business to really come in , come in with impressive returns was er , asset trading money , broking and banking . |
| 12 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 13 | Two generations later Horace Walpole complained that in London the Spanish ambassador was " almost the only envoy from a foreign court who disdained to turn his exalted office to trading purposes " . |
| 14 | So much so that in America the Black Panthers studied it for tips on guerrilla tactics ! |
| 15 | A possible reconciliation is to argue that in Collins the accused 's intent was to rape , if necessary , whereas in Jones & Smith there was no " if necessary " about the intent to steal . |
| 16 | This paradox is explained by the fact that in Britain the vast majority of older people are poor and there is therefore less difference in income levels between the group . |
| 17 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 18 | let them sweetly dream that in Britain the great day has come at last . |
| 19 | The sad fact is , however , that in Britain the old have the worst housing of any group . |
| 20 | There is also a suggestion that in Britain the elaborate chambered tombs and long barrows , and such structures as Newgrange in Ireland , were not just used for burial but for other purposes as well . |
| 21 | Roger Stevenson , prosecuting , said that in January the little girl told her mother Mr Lockwood had sexually abused her . |
| 22 | It is often suggested that in Italy the general public is more receptive to the idea of mental hospital residents returning to live in the community . |
| 23 | It is apparent that in SR the stress-energy tensor embodies a compact description of energy and momentum density . |
| 24 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 25 | Frederica explained that in France the 7 is crossed but that this is not done in Thomas Cook 's in Calverley , N. Yorkshire . |
| 26 | Conversely , Dawson and Parkinson ( chapter 3 ) argue that in Liverpool the unaccountable work of Merseyside Development Corporation has to be set beside the ineffectual work of the putatively democratic local state . |
| 27 | From Washington the British ambassador , Sir Oliver Franks , reported that in Korea the American government and people had ‘ instinctively followed their high destiny in the world ’ . |
| 28 | The Halifax says that in September the average price of a house in this country was up by one percent on the same time last year . |
| 29 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 30 | Note that in Z[x] the only units are the polynomials 1 and -1 and that whilst unc in Z[x] . |