Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most authorities lacked such a committee before this except in a shadow , non-statutory form within the majority party caucus . |
| 2 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 3 | Although through the efforts of Charlemagne , who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in the year 800 , the centre of European culture began to move northwards from the Mediterranean , the Viking raids of the ninth and tenth centuries delayed the full effects of this until about the year 1000 . |
| 4 | So he persuades his man with a natural talent for the proper administration of worldly affairs that to neglect this because of a preoccupation with spiritual meditation could be unwise . |
| 5 | We know this because of a telegram sent by Kirk at 2300 hrs that night to the State Department in Washington , asking " urgently " for advice [ KP 107 ] . |
| 6 | Was this because of the wording of the items or the unfamiliarity of the task ? |
| 7 | I enjoy this because of the diversity and intellectual challenge ’ . |
| 8 | Organisations are neglecting this because of the emphasis on technical expertise . ’ |
| 9 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 10 | First of all , I think that it it 's difficult to be sure of this because of the way in which the County Council prepared their the evidence on which I relayed relied and like Mr I did n't come here prepared to talks in detail about the inner northern . |
| 11 | Capitalists exploit the workers by depriving them of this surplus value and they do this because of the nature of property in capitalist societies , where the means of production are controlled by the capitalist . |
| 12 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 13 | but is this because of the family 's bad eating habits , or is there a genetic factor ? |
| 14 | He was moved to do this because of the feeling that this is not a mere river but the Lord 's compassion flowing before us . |
| 15 | Head : ‘ We need to consider this because of the decline in the value of the per capita allowance . ’ |
| 16 | It would do this because under the plan Muslim and Croat forces could not move into areas conquered by the Serbs when Serb forces withdrew ; UN forces would replace the retreating Serbs . |
| 17 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 18 | ( Care should be taken when doing this as under the thumb operation there is a small spring ) . |
| 19 | There seems to be some confusion in the minds of some as to the purpose of seeking consent from a patient ( whether adult or child ) or from someone with authority to give that consent on behalf of the patient . |
| 20 | I have no evidence one way or another as to the extent of risk of an episode occurring within five weeks but realism and commonsense tell me that there is a reasonable possibility that it will not and that even if he does unfortunately suffer such a trauma , he will if his life has to be preserved by artificial means , recover sufficiently for a decision at the main hearing as to further mechanical ventilation for the future . |
| 21 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 22 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 23 | The gradual assimilation of minority nationalities , moreover , has operated less to the advantage of the Russian population as such than to the advantage of the larger nationalities in general , Russians included . |
| 24 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 25 | The ANC rejected the proposal , saying that the government was opposed to majority rule " not so much because of the principle involved but because of dissatisfaction with whom the majority will be " . |
| 26 | And er you ca n't really do much because of the stone walls and there 's too much window and too much noise , and you get quite a few insects in them , and they 're just generally not very nice at all . |
| 27 | ‘ Not so much because of the liver but because it spoils the effect of the first drink of the evening . ’ |
| 28 | Hue and Cry are the most interesting of the new pop sophisticates , not so much because of the music , but because singer and lyricist Patrick Kane is an intellectual firebrand who 's more sussed than most about the contradictions and complexities of trying to infiltrate intelligence into the world of teenpop . |
| 29 | But Harold was not to be soothed : he demanded retribution , he demanded action , not so much because of the ridicule but because at some stage in the programme it was alleged that he had made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in an improper fashion in relation to a book he was then about to publish . |
| 30 | As we have already indicated , what has been ‘ lost ’ from the countryside has been the village as an occupational community , which has disappeared not so much because of the impact of the newcomers but because of the underlying changes in the economics of agriculture . |