Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms . |
| 2 | Better than the knobbly knees one at any rate . |
| 3 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 4 | The curious absence of the traders themselves from this formulation reflects Morel 's concentration on winning labour to the pacifist cause . |
| 5 | The second is to act as a filter to ensure that only those cases which for some reason need to proceed to a formal process of adjudication do so . |
| 6 | He played the accompaniments himself at this stage . |
| 7 | The deployment of a weapon system involves a threat that that system will be used in certain circumstances which to some extent can be deduced from the characteristics of the weapon system itself . |
| 8 | ‘ Matters naught to this bugga , I 'm afraid , ’ grunts Panama . |
| 9 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 10 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 11 | Within a week , Matilda had finished Great Expectations which in that edition contained four hundred pages and eleven pages . |
| 12 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 13 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 14 | For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ . |
| 15 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 16 | ( 8 ) Estates , interests and charges in or over land which are not legal estates are in this Act referred to as " equitable interests , " and powers which by this Act are to operate only in equity are in this Act referred to as " equitable powers " . |
| 17 | In support of the proposition that the development of the nouveau roman corresponds to the transition from modernism to postmodernism , it can certainly be shown that the early productions of the nouveaux romanciers are susceptible to readings which to some extent meet the criteria of psychological realism so important in modernist aesthetics . |
| 18 | Yet no country at present satisfies its preconditions for EMU — conditions which in any case are increasingly viewed as inappropriate . |
| 19 | However , by careful reading of the footnote , a manuscript was found in the Harleian Collection of the British Library which dated from 1599 and gave details of the armorial panels which at that date existed . |
| 20 | At the very least it was more selective than various predecessors which by that time had fallen into disrepute . |
| 21 | Very large lenses up to 50 m thick form extensions of the permafrost , giving rise to steep-sided hills called pingos which in many tundra regions provide the highest relief Pingos may be many centuries old and covered with permanent vegetation . |
| 22 | In addition it must give the names of all persons who at any time during the financial year were directors of the company and describe the principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries and any changes therein during the course of the year . |
| 23 | Yet keeper Craig Nelson 's most anxious moments came from Frank McAvennie efforts one in each half . |
| 24 | The inquirer could not print out the pages herself at this point as the microcomputer was in use , so they were printed out and passed on to her . |
| 25 | Acse 's program then adds information particular to the bank 's accounting procedures to the Edifact message , translates it into a format usable by the bank 's accounting system , and batch-loads it into that application . |
| 26 | I mean you could forget this list that I gave th b that gave you , unless there 's anything on it that is still relevant , but find the things yourself on that topic so that on Thursday Next Thursday you can each spend ten minutes talking about things which you 've read in your topic specifically . |
| 27 | In the period 1920–6 she brought within her general theory of ideals several theories which until that time had been seen as independent . |
| 28 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 29 | It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject . |
| 30 | But in a more complex formation there might , for example , be a politically dominant class and a distinct economically dominated class , each divided into strata and fractions with interests which to some extent diverge . |