Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this measure , in average terms , Britain was not at a disadvantage after 1967 since exchange rate adjustments compensated for higher costs [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 2 | I had located the dreaded Carol easily enough and reclaiming the pendant had been a piece of cake , well , a piece of more than cake , actually . |
| 3 | part of the process of universal involvement in recognition of Artai as Lord of the Earth now necessitated the removal of the Dragon Throne — a solid piece of carving of the weight of seven thousand diram — with its occupant from the top of the plinth down to the concourse from whence it was destined to be borne on a processional route on the shoulders of teams of men of every degree in the Khanate , most of whom had been selected by lot , although there were a few who had paid out considerable sums in gold koban for the privilege of inclusion . |
| 4 | The show , organised by Thames Valley Police , has all the elements of a Christmas pantomime with larger than life characters and lots of audience participation . |
| 5 | It would help dispel unhappy memories for Whiteside who made the last of his 38 Northern Ireland appearances in a 3–0 Dublin defeat in 1989 before injury cruelly ended his career at just 26 . |
| 6 | However , in 1957 some bonds were redeemed by the Club at less than par , so perhaps the President was successful after all , possibly by inviting bondholders themselves to suggest a lower than par price . |
| 7 | As de Valois said in a lecture to teachers : ‘ It is better to have a rule to break than no rule at all if chaos is not to reign in the class-room or on the stage . ’ |
| 8 | After an education in France , Wharton briefly sat as an MP in the Parliament of 1680 as member for East Grinstead , before a hotheaded pro-Exclusionist speech forced him to lie low . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing takes make-up off faster than chicken grease so we had to keep them away from that , ’ continues Drexler . |
| 10 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 11 | Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) . |
| 12 | As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service . |
| 13 | The National Health Insurance Act of 1911 provided access to a general practitioner for all insured workers , male and female , but not for their dependants , who were mainly women and children . |
| 14 | Thus , assuming that a single 65W tube costs £2 , the expected hourly depreciation cost over its expected lifetime is 0.027ph-1 ; this compares with the energy consumption of 0.21ph-1 if electricity is charged at 3.2pkWh-1 . |
| 15 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 16 | In this situation , moreover , the distinction between mass as collectivity and mass as aggregate becomes crucial . |
| 17 | LTP can be tentatively subdivided into several mechanistically distinct components : LTP1 , with a duration of less than 3–6h which is blocked by kinase inhibitors but not by protein synthesis inhibitors ; LTP2 , a component which is blocked by translational inhibitors but which appears to be independent of gene expression ; and LTP3 , with a time constant of several days , which is only obtained if the animal is unanaesthetised at the time of induction and which may require gene expression ( see text ) . |
| 18 | Since that day of Dirac 's discovery the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those in the know . |
| 19 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |
| 20 | His retirement in 1990 as Chairman of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' Committee marked the end of over 15 years ' association with Surrey Youth Cricket . |
| 21 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 22 | The Prussians could not industrialise the east because local commerce did not generate profits large enough to finance industrial investment , and because local agriculture could not support the bulk of the population at more than subsistence level . |
| 23 | My heart with more than lust . |
| 24 | But such shows of strength are no guarantee for player-safety as photographer Graham Morris demonstrated in 1984 . |
| 25 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 26 | Continuous-process technology offers more scope for self-actualisation than machine and assembly-line technologies . |
| 27 | Pressure on sterling continued into the first quarter of 1990 as inflation and interest rates increased , and on March 19 sterling hit a record low against the West German mark at DM2.71 . |
| 28 | Dummett , architect of anti-realism as successor to verificationism , offers the most introductory account I know in Dummett ( 1978 , ch. 10 ) but if you are new to this area you would do better to wait until you have read ch. 9 of the present book before attempting it . |
| 29 | It can be seen as applying principles of ESP to the general curriculum of school education , presenting language as a service for the achievement of other than language objectives . |
| 30 | There is no longer any need for the defendant 's solicitor to apply to have the payment in invested when time for acceptance has expired , but it will now earn less on deposit than on short-term investment account . |