Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People buying shares in British Telecommunications Plc will be able to deal in shares by punching the keys on a normal push-button telephone : the retail investment company ShareLink Ltd said the service , the first such scheme in Europe , is being offered as part of the marketing campaign for BT3 , the UK government 's sale of a third tranche of British Telecom shares , marketing of which began yesterday ; the system will later be extended to cover other shares ; the government 's remaining shares are to be sold in July ; pricing and details of whether all the remaining 21.8% stake will be sold are due in June . |
| 2 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 3 | It is as if somehow the puritanical , work-obsessed British associated the idea of ‘ pleasure ’ with the saucy , sinful Continent . |
| 4 | Here , it is as if both the single and the plural accounts of human nature were specious . |
| 5 | He had left behind as well the massive structures of farms and sheepfolds , with their strange irregular shapes , their gigantic mossy roofs , and little low walls . |
| 6 | These authors postulate that in as yet an unexplained way it is the accumulation of these lipid-laden foam cells in the sub-endothelium that damage the endothelium , thus allowing the subsequent developments in the formation of the atheromatous plaque to proceed . |
| 7 | There 's more going on than just the Cretaceous collapse . |
| 8 | We thus have an apparent paradox : a modern stock-exchange law without a stock exchange , but an established banking system without as yet a modern banking law . |