Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family . |
| 2 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
| 3 | They had been moving steadily through a very thick part of the forest in which it was impossible to maintain a constant direction for more than a few paces . |
| 4 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 5 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 6 | Anyone can use this to make a judgement about any and every aspect of their writing depending on what they 're interested in — style , content , layout , accuracy etc . |
| 7 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
| 8 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 9 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 10 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 11 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
| 12 | A list of available photographs could be included with the mailing for all but the certainties . |
| 13 | There is certainly interaction between these and the processes and responses of many arts : many works are derived from or stimulated by them ; other works articulate new ‘ natural ’ perceptions . |
| 14 | In exploring the construction of marriage and divorce as a public issue , we will focus in particular on the role of politics , the law and the Church and the nature of the interaction between these and the various professional and public figures involved in the development of marital work in Britain since the 1930's . |
| 15 | The parallel between this and the equivalent position today between Britain and Germany is of more than academic interest . |
| 16 | The smaller the unit , the shorter should be the stay inside it — there are very few patients who need to be contained within a locked unit of this kind for more than a few days . |
| 17 | Any direct link between this and the McMahon Act is unlikely . |
| 18 | Its the same as making a formula one car go at 200 miles an hour for each and every driver … handling is down to individual skill |
| 19 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
| 20 | There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ? |
| 21 | I note that the C E C is opposing this , but I feel that maybe they 've missed the points and the branch should actually take some responsibility for this because the wording could be better , we concede that point . |
| 22 | Hence the growth of state power meant the enslavement of individuals who became totally dependent on it for everything and who , as individuals , no longer possessed the personal responsibility for any but the most trivial and harmless of their actions : |
| 23 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 24 | So far in our case studies we have examined only those media in one-party systems ; the contrast between these and a multi-party political situation is immediate and obvious . |
| 25 | Clearly , the work on these lower levels is far from complete , but the contrast between these and the higher levels ( in which no investigations have yet been made ) is conspicuous . |
| 26 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 27 | There could hardly be a stronger contrast between this and the picture RIGHT which shows a Kirlian photograph of a healthy person 's fingertip . |
| 28 | This report provides an overview of recent changes in policy makers ' assumptions about the family , particularly in relation to the benefit system , where the recognition of relationships can mean more money for some and no money for others . |
| 29 | The Drive channel is governed by the usual Gain and Volume pots , for selecting the amount of overdrive in the sound , and for setting the level between that and the Normal channel 's output . |
| 30 | We did n't really need a Christmas present after that but the encore , the intermezzo from Delius 's Fennimore and Gerda , was very welcome all the same . |