Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] ' [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience the past and present of rural Wales ' most important industry . |
| 2 | We humans lay out our highways and byways in our fashion and each species does so in theirs , and we mostly remain unaware of each others ' very own and personal world of perception . |
| 3 | Compare Auntie 's " Him and his women " ( a fine , natural contour ) with her That is the sort of weak politeness ' just afterwards , where the thought is dwelt on in a manner quite foreign to real life ; or the inane canonic whining of the Nieces ( not perhaps Britten 's most successful creations ) with Balstrode 's " D' you think we should stop our storm for such as you ? " |
| 4 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 5 | The Commission also failed on June 26 , 1991 , to obtain agreement on its plan to introduce a statutory minimum of 14 weeks ' fully paid maternity leave for pregnant women . |
| 6 | However , rights theory allows for one person 's prima facie right to be overridden in the interests of other individuals ' more important ‘ competing rights ’ ( see Dworkin , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Although the proposal reportedly received widespread support from within the West German political parties , the official NATO reaction to the idea , contained in a statement of Jan. 8 , was to reject suggestions for the " creation of special zones ' as distinct from an overall CFE treaty . |
| 8 | the space within which the larger part of most citizens ' daily working and consuming lives is lived . |
| 9 | The commercial misjudgment centred upon British Airways ' obstinately held belief that turbo jets were more economic than pure jets and were preferred by passengers . |
| 10 | According to all the archival evidence available until very recently , there had apparently been no answer to 5 Corps ' almost desperate insistence on 23 May that the hand-over of the Cossacks could not be achieved without use of force . |