Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 1900 many deep results were obtained especially by the Italian geometers although the validity of some of their methods was not always apparent . |
| 2 | They apply to both county and voluntary aided schools although the extent of change for the latter is less marked as the governing body was already the official employer of most staff at the school . |
| 3 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 4 | Come to that , she had much better legs than a man of Gav 's mental age deserved . |
| 5 | I glanced over , thinking that she had much better legs than a woman of her age deserved . |
| 6 | And yet , many will draw some sour satisfaction from the fact that the stockbroking trade , with its air of effortless mystique and superiority , is clearly no better at computers than the rest of us . |
| 7 | It will cost more to repair the burnt valve seats and valves than the saving on fuel . |
| 8 | AcBT-2/6/NS1/7 expressed BTV proteins although the level of VP2 expression was lower than the other three proteins as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 9 | Nothing better illustrates the social balance in the party and the fierce independence of the local parties than the argument about the selection of working-class candidates . |
| 10 | ‘ Sweeter it is to my ears than the mewing of gulls ’ , she said . ’ |
| 11 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 12 | The Panic Brothers Although the patter of the camp , grey-haired one between songs can irritate , his tenor combined with the falsetto of the otherwise silent , red-haired , red-faced one produces a pleasing pastiche of the Everlys . |
| 13 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 14 | There were few things more calculated to endear a prince to his subjects than a display of stern retribution on unjust officials . |
| 15 | His Lordship will need to assess whether the nudity involved in the depiction of this is more corrupting to young eyes than the safety of the encounter is exemplary . |
| 16 | It 's the pick of the ties although the game between holders East Belfast and Killyleagh will attract a lot of attention . |
| 17 | Yet there is far more to the martial arts than the aggression of karate . |
| 18 | The Moving Picture World described how ‘ the nickel palace of amusement made its appearance with no greater blare of trumpets than the noise of its phonograph horn and the throaty persuasions of its barker ’ and ‘ how these came unobtrusively in the still of the night ’ . |
| 19 | The eventual movie Black Legion followed the detail of the Detroit story in many respects although the idea of a member of the jury actually being recognized as a member of the Legion as had happened in Detroit was dropped . |
| 20 | Both types of system can be confused by reflections off glass and other shiny surfaces , and they can be beaten by rapidly moving subjects although the speed at which the newer systems work is incredibly fast . |
| 21 | The credit strength of some — especially those that face less balanced regulation or are slower to realise operating efficiencies than the industry as a whole — could come under pressure short-term . |
| 22 | In many cases the question will be answered by looking at the terms of the contract between the parties although a description of the parties as " employer " and " employee " is not conclusive . |
| 23 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |
| 24 | The ventral interradial areas are also covered by spinelets although the extent of covering varies ; in some specimens only the distal portion has spinelets , in others it is totally covered . |
| 25 | There were no warmer or more enthusiastic supporters than the BDDA in the reconstitution of the Institute , and there has always been harmonious co-operation between the two . |
| 26 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 27 | So that erm erm the collection of of the loan was erm quite a major operation in itself because though erm there was a form of agreement and each agreement had to have two sureties and erm you could always go to the sureties if the student after the course |
| 28 | She spent the morning scrubbing out the ponies ' boxes because the Rutshire team manager , miffed that Drew seemed to have utterly taken over , threatened dire reprisals if a blade of straw was left on the floor . |
| 29 | There was thus little organised public concern over the ethical treatment of animals until the formation of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , in Britain in 1822 and the United States in 1866 . |
| 30 | There will only be that number of computers if the range of applications and uses increases a hundredfold too . |