Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 2 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 3 | Two contrasting features mark the relations between Rome and the Greek world during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. On the one hand commercial relations must have decreased because there were fewer Greek imports than in the sixth century . |
| 4 | In summary , these are : i ) low-income countries will not lose so much in the way of earnings if their population is damaged by pollution , since wages are so low anyway ; ii ) under-populated countries in regions such as Africa are effectively " under-polluted " compared to urbanized areas such as Los Angeles or Mexico City — ideally , there should be a " world-welfare-enhancing trade in air pollution and waste " ; and iii ) environmental concern , on health and aesthetic grounds , is much more acute in high-income countries than in the third world , where direct alleviation of poverty is seen as more pressing . |
| 5 | ‘ If they manage that , I just hope we can force Liverpool into making as many errors as in the first leg . ’ |
| 6 | You fold the postcard in half , cut along the lines as in the first drawing . |
| 7 | When we have destroyed more darkness in this last fifty years than in the last five million ? ’ |
| 8 | From the foregoing , you will see that my experience , and hence the bulk of this talk , revolves around engineering applications although for the last 9 months of my time in post I also was responsible for supply aspects of AI and I will cover this briefly . |
| 9 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 10 | Hooks are found on segments after the second branching but they do not form complete rings until beyond the third or fourth branch ; in juvenile specimens the rings may appear after the second branch . |
| 11 | Children are likely to be brought into contact with , and dependence on , a large number of ‘ step ’ relatives because of the first mechanism . |
| 12 | Repeat the checking for other holes as for the first strip |
| 13 | Norcross found that the acquisition of a button-pressing task proceeded more rapidly with the first pair of stimuli than with the second . |
| 14 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 15 | The plaintiff had originally brought the action also against other defendants , seeking relief in the same terms as against the fourth and fifth defendants , but before action came to trial those defendants Norfolk Line Ltd. , Kent Line Ltd. , Transit Freights Ltd. and Britholdings Ltd. , ceased to be parties to the action . |
| 16 | He managed to connect all the moves except for the last in one push and doubtless would have succeeded given more time . |
| 17 | Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF . |
| 18 | The specifically German element comes to the fore , however , in Lutheran hymn-settings as in the first part of Normiger 's book and the ‘ Celler Tabulatur ’ of 1601 . |
| 19 | In the light of the failure to adopt the draft programme , it was decided to give the new party central committee the task of reworking it , and to suspend proceedings until after the 28th CPSU congress in July . |
| 20 | The younger element , like Mark Perry , are being allowed to make their mistakes while in the first team and , once greater experience tells , United will have a balanced side of rich promise . |
| 21 | Local elections held on May 27 were Poland 's first completely free multiparty elections since before the Second World War ( in the parliamentary elections of June 1989 there had been an agreed distribution of seats in the Sejm ( the lower house of the National Assembly ) among the former ruling parties and opposition or independent candidates — see pp. 36722-24 , and some opposition groups had been denied registration to compete as parties ) . |
| 22 | I did ask whether the Association of Chief Police Officers have been told that they are going to they are likely to have to take over many of the responsibilities of the British Transport Police as from the first of April . |
| 23 | The survey showed that breeding had been so successful that there were now three times as many swans than at the last census , taken in 1983 . |
| 24 | These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War . |
| 25 | He found the ward as full of interesting types as in the third class waiting room at the station . |