Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 2 | Entwined with the question of politics and of film-making as self-expression — a matter of class privilege ( Diaz-Abaya ) or cultural struggle ( Dhanraj ) — -was the issue of women 's sexual objectification . |
| 3 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 4 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 5 | Later on , Bauthumley became a minor corporation official at Leicester , in 1658 as serjeant-at-mace , and in 1667 as library keeper . |
| 6 | It was abandoned when the new church was built in 1909 and in less than severity years has fallen into complete ruin — a good indication of how severe the Dales weather can be and how quickly buildings succumb to its assault . |
| 7 | William Wegman usually appears in books on the art of the last two decades in his role as a pioneer Conceptual artist — and in particular as author of a piece called " Family Combinations " ( 1972 ) . |