Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 2 | This indemnity shall not be prejudiced or waived by any exercise of our rights under Condition 3.3 . |
| 3 | The grey wolf is extinct or endangered in most other US states , but Alaska has a population of about 6,000 . |
| 4 | Since , in many tribal societies , women were either pregnant or nursing during most of their fertile period of life , this monthly menstrual withdrawal did not affect women 's lives from month to month as much as it might seem to us today . |
| 5 | This cleans the slate making it less likely that you will feel guilty or succumb to any future pressure or emotional blackmail . |
| 6 | Aggregate supply is either assumed to be time-trended or represented in some other naive fashion . |
| 7 | A further 17 officers have lost their lives as a result of being shot , crushed or injured in some other way . |
| 8 | Even while authoritative actions reflect the subjects ' reasons , indeed in order that they should do so , they may well lead to different outcomes on particular occasions , and that without being in any way wrong or mistaken on those occasions . |
| 9 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |
| 10 | This applies particularly to stones designed for young people but because they are still growing and changing themselves , the moral and psychological lessons must not be rigid or overstrained for these young readers . |
| 11 | Such maintenance work is , however , not considered sufficiently interesting or challenging by many of those who are qualified to do development work . |
| 12 | Such materials are however not part of the plant as defined in the policy exception makes clear that damage to such materials is not covered . |
| 13 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 14 | That structure need not be rigid or too formalised but it must be clear and known to those in the firm . |
| 15 | Any non-governmental movement might be suspect in such circumstances , untried and lacking in those essential relationships and assets by which inter-state bargains can be struck . |
| 16 | The cells in the embryo are initially much less specialized and differ from each other in more subtle ways . |
| 17 | Nonetheless there are certain consequences which we may notice : First , an obvious prediction from ( 47 ) is that , once again , adjectives which are not ascribed to the entity of the noun would be ungrammatical if put into this position . |
| 18 | Accept this and the gateway to other worlds will slowly swing wide for you and each day will bring forth new wonders , so that you become once more as a child , absorbed and enchanted by all there is of which to learn . |
| 19 | The dinner menu is interesting and varied with many dishes incorporating locally caught fish and shellfish and all the vegetables are locally and organically grown . |
| 20 | LDOCE is slightly superior to the CED and OALD in this respect , most probably due to its use of a core vocabulary . |
| 21 | When you get light and trembling with that special kind of stage fright , you ca n't trust your fingers to do what they 're told . |
| 22 | As well be fried and roasted on that side of the door , as turned to something very nasty by the Robemaker and fed into the furnaces . |
| 23 | These are habits that must now be reworked to meet threats that are vaguer , more elusive and spread across more of the world than precisely identified units of the Soviet army . |
| 24 | Operations to reverse sterilisation do exist but the chances of success are not high and depend to some extent on the type of sterilisation operation carried out originally . |
| 25 | The resort is only 20 years old and grabs at any chance for a celebrity to add sparkle to its budding image as the Florida of the Nineties . |
| 26 | ‘ As a man he was kind , genial and respected by all who know him . |
| 27 | Funerals were free and open to all . |
| 28 | In addition , the service has always been free and open to all individuals . |
| 29 | If protected in some way , either by vegetation or by falling into holes in the ground , small mammal bones quickly become buried and protected in this way from weathering . |
| 30 | Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony appears to have fully emerged from the shameful obscurity it once endured to become one of the most popular and recorded of all Romantic symphonies . |