Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 2 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 3 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 4 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 5 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , he did much better as a collector of pictures from earlier centuries than of the works of his own contemporaries or friends . |
| 7 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 8 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 9 | I was keener on the pictures than on the prose and therefore skipped most of the moral rearmament propaganda : ‘ hobbies ’ , like ‘ pocket money ’ , were things that other kids had , so I was never tempted to make a jet-propelled car with a Sparklets bulb ( whatever that was ) . |
| 10 | It was hotly argued that the cameras zoomed in more often on his Gucci loafers and Hermes ties than on the buildings . |
| 11 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 12 | The simple truth is , though , that you will never be in a better position to arrange suitable contract safeguards than during the period when a company is anxious to secure your services . |
| 13 | Although the inversion rate was low for both age groups , it was significantly lower for the eight-year-olds than for the five-year-olds . |
| 14 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 15 | They were to discover , however , that a barely literate populace found the abstract word far more difficult to absorb than more concrete visual images , for as one Henrician reformer had earlier noted : ‘ into the common people things sooner enter by the eyes than by the ears . ’ |
| 16 | It is much harder to argue for an unclear and complicated arrangement for arriving at what is taught in schools than for the logic of a national curriculum . |
| 17 | However , the significance of all this is unclear : in the southeastern part of the province there appears to be a greater inter-relationship of designs than in the west . |
| 18 | This bursting activity was massively — up to fourfold — higher in the methylanthranilate-trained animals than in the controls which had pecked the water bead . |
| 19 | Wales , Yorkshire and Humberside , and East Midlands always fare worse on the morbidity indicators than on the SMRs ; and West Midlands and the South-West always appear even more advantaged on these morbidity indicators . |
| 20 | You get better speeches than in the Commons , ’ he insists . |
| 21 | The unit of resource ( the yearly cost per full time student ) has always been lower in the polytechnics than in the universities and recent downward pressure has widened the gap from £1,425 in 1982 to £2,315 in 1986/87 . |
| 22 | Edwards writes : " Various writers , ( e.g. Crump 1979 ) refer to teacher reports that the speech of young black children closely resembles that of their white peers until about the ages of 14 or 15 " . |
| 23 | He stressed that the meaning was to be contrasted with an error made in carrying out the testator 's intentions by the draftsman 's words , and also with a mistaken choice of words because of a failure to understand the testator 's intentions ( a matter covered by s 20(1) ( b ) of the Act . |
| 24 | Lucien found it hard to doubt Azmaveth 's words because of the zeal with which she spoke , but he still had difficulty believing her . |
| 25 | The best image resolution was obtained from transverse images because of the orientation of the resonance frequency coils . |
| 26 | For many , the worst memories of that era are of food shortages because of the disruption to the agricultural system . |
| 27 | The prospect that perhaps hundreds of black and Asian children may have been wrongly consigned to special schools because of a failure properly to understand their needs is one which education authorities have been reluctant to confront . |
| 28 | The spadefish swim faster in schools because of a slime given off by the swimming fish . |
| 29 | However , Queen 's will be struggling for a scrum-half with former Irish Schools ' skipper Kenton Hillman ruled out for two months because of a shoulder injury , while centre Gerry Ross is heading for Trinity . |
| 30 | His replacement , Sosuke Uno , was forced out of office after only two months because of a sex scandal . |