Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 2 | Mubarak confirmed that Assad was now willing to renew contact with Yassir Arafat , chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , but stated that many obstacles still remained to prevent an early reconciliation between Assad and Iraq 's President Saddam Hussein , between whom a bitter personal rift existed due to Syria 's support of Iran in the Gulf War . |
| 3 | These latter results exclude data from 34 patients with index ulcers less than 5 mm in diameter who had cumulative two , four , and eight week healing rates of 41.2% , 73.5% , and 97.1% respectively and 54 patients suffering from their first ulcer for whom the equivalent healing rates were 50% , 74.1% , and 94.4% . |
| 4 | Pat Bavester was another person for whom the low fat diet worked where others had failed . |
| 5 | Like most of Karajan 's judgements , it is rational and soundly based , though it will always disappoint English music-lovers for whom the early 1950s Philharmonia was a high-water mark in the country 's orchestral affairs , matched only by such other brief periods of glory as those enjoyed by Beecham 's LPO and Boult 's BBC SO in the 1930s and the LSO in the Monteux , Kertész , and early Previn years . |
| 6 | A precursor of this line of reasoning is Max Weber , for whom the shared ideal and material interests of groups are primary analytical components . |
| 7 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 8 | The 15 all present and correct had between them an astonishing 533 years ' service . |
| 9 | Between them the two major planks of the strategy had yielded £5,264,500 . |
| 10 | Between them the major Dutch breeds ( black-and-whites and the red-and-white dual-purpose Meuse-Rhine-Yssel ) account for 99 per cent of the dairy cows in the Netherlands today , with the black-and-whites averaging more than 6,800kg at 4.4 per cent butterfat , the MRY 6,000kg at 4.3 per cent and the less common Groningen Whiteheaded about 5,700kg at 4.2 per cent . |
| 11 | ‘ For me a classic pop song has a great hook , but you always leave something out for people to put in themselves , ’ says John . |
| 12 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 13 | For me the light alone is enough . ’ |
| 14 | The third Duke of Roxburghe ( 1704–1804 ) , a collector on the grand scale after whom the exclusive bibliophilic Roxburghe Club was named , had a number of tracts concerning Mary Tofts , who perturbed the gynaecologists of her day by claiming to have given birth to a litter of rabbits . |
| 15 | Kassem failed to win international support for his claim and was deterred from pursuing it militarily by the swift dispatch of British and Arab League forces to Kuwait [ see pp. 18187-90 ; 18355 ; 18934 ] ; he was toppled in a bloody Baath-Nationalist coup in 1963 , after which the new Iraqi government recognized Kuwaiti sovereignty [ see p. 19668 ] . |
| 16 | The plant had been criticized as being " in very poor condition " by an IAEA inspection in 1991 , after which the two oldest reactors had been shut down [ see pp. 38350-51 ] . |
| 17 | A civilian government , elected in 1978 , was overthrown in a military coup in November 1980 , after which the 57-member National Assembly and the Constitution were suspended . |
| 18 | A civilian government , elected in 1978 , was overthrown in a military coup in November 1980 , after which the 57-member National Assembly and the Constitution were suspended . |
| 19 | The draft 1991 budget presented by Finance Minister Theo Waigel on Nov. 14 required spending cuts of DM35,000 million ( US$23,645 million ) , after which the 1991 public-sector deficit was still calculated to rise dramatically to DM140,000 million or 5 per cent of GNP . |
| 20 | It is envisaged that the national squad will spend two weeks in Johannesburg next March and then head straight to Kenya for three weeks of Cup cricket after which the top three teams will qualify for the 1995 World Cup to be staged jointly by India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka . |
| 21 | Over 600 anti-drugs police and 20 agents from the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) took part in the action which provoked local resentment and during which a Bolivian naval lieutenant Carlos Revollo Alcoreza was allegedly kicked , bound and gagged by two DEA agents . |
| 22 | This mode has been associated with the right hemisphere and tends more towards passive , visual processing , during which the overall emotional tone if a situation becomes paramount . |
| 23 | A crash-landing on the surface of the sea was carried out , during which the one unwounded member of the crew was injured , but all were safely picked up by the destroyer ‘ Camicia Nere ’ . |
| 24 | In order to gain a deeper insight into the emergence of socialist realism in interwar France , it is clearly necessary to examine the significance of the 1934 Soviet Writers ' Congress during which the new literary ideology was officially consecrated . |
| 25 | So it went on for two long hours during which the thousands present learned nothing about Fascism except the bravery and pertinacity of its young adherents in dealing with this very perilous situation . " |
| 26 | About five months earlier he had attended an open day at the power station during which the Acting Administrative Officer , Hilary Robarts , had given a short preliminary talk . |
| 27 | At that point the peripatetic Ercoupe/Aircoupe/Fornaire/Alon/Cadet design had been in production — on and off — for some 33 years , during which the original basic low-wing and steeply dihedralled tricycle monoplane had undergone innumerable detail changes . |
| 28 | All had been sentenced to long prison sentences for the " dirty war " against left-wing guerrillas and dissidents , during which an estimated 9,000 people " disappeared " and thousands more were abducted , tortured and murdered . |
| 29 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 30 | The Commission itself has been examining the feasibility of creating an official forum within the Community 's institutions through which the European regional economies can express opinions and make recommendations . |