Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you or any of those named in your booking have the misadventure to suffer illness , personal injury or death during your holiday arising out of an activity which does not form part of our foreign inclusive holiday arrangement with you or any excursion offered through us we will offer where appropriate and within our reasonable discretion : ( i ) our general assistance ; ( ii ) the payment of initial legal costs where with our prior agreement you or any of those named in your booking take legal action provided such assistance is requested within 90 days from the date of the misadventure : provided that the total aggregate spending under ( i ) and ( ii ) above shall not exceed £5,000 per booking form . |
| 2 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 3 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 4 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 5 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 6 | The village of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ is situated beside the Marne canal , just east of Aÿ-Champagne and south of Avenay : few of its vines are located near the village itself , except for its best vineyard , a remarkable spur called the Clos des Goisses . |
| 7 | Although it impressed both Cicero ( 106–43 BC ) and Virgil ( 70–19 BC ; ) , the Epicureanism on which it was based made little impression on the Romans , except for its hedonistic aspect . |
| 8 | The voice was unmistakable — except for its unaccustomed gentleness . |
| 9 | The general cargo ship was empty except for its own fuel oil when it hit the island , lying between Orkney and the Scottish mainland , in the early hours of Saturday . |
| 10 | The spider , less than 1 cm long , is perfectly preserved except for its soft parts . |
| 11 | A tree pipit is another nondescript ‘ little brown job ’ , almost indistinguishable from the meadow pipit except for its remarkable song flight . |
| 12 | Her luck lies in the fact that she possesses little to recommend except for her good looks . |
| 13 | This cushion , and the now headless figure of the young woman in the same corner , are carved , except for her right arm , of Parian marble , like the rest of the sculptures . |
| 14 | ‘ All her jewellery was taken , ’ he says softly , ‘ except for her five-diamond engagement ring , her sapphire and diamond eternity ring and her wedding ring . |
| 15 | These highly intelligent androids , perfect except for their total inability to think creatively , had devised a super robot which they intended should lead them . |
| 16 | except for their normal purposes , to hold |
| 17 | As stated , Rule 1 inhibits nomination of a circular network of packages ; therefore , to allow deletion of such networks , Rule 1 is relaxed where all members of a circular network would be nominated except for their mutual dependence . |
| 18 | I think I 've always found it hard to talk to people except for my best mate . |
| 19 | For if I should wish to love you and no other except for my wedded husband I shall not fail to tell you . " ) |
| 20 | In fact , he left not long after , leaving all the secretaries and personal assistants in charge , except for my personal assistant — she got fired . |
| 21 | It is an excellent book , as I took care to point out , except for my few niggles . |
| 22 | Not historic buildings , except for his last home at Schloss Solitude , outside Stuttgart , but elderly , ordinary , slightly shabby houses , planned and built in an earlier age , that had acquired a comfortable individuality in occupation by previous occupants , and lent themselves to his own way of living and working . |
| 23 | He listened , but there was no sound from upstairs except for his own bedroom door banging . |
| 24 | I am , however , less concerned about Tory claims of vindication than about what Labour voters — the great majority of whom have no wish to embrace the SNP as prodigal brothers — make of it . |
| 25 | It may be harder to keep seeing change as ‘ challenge ’ rather than ‘ threat ’ when the going gets tough , but whether you can or not may say more about the way difficulties are met and the emotional repercussions they generate than about their very existence . |
| 26 | Tickets had been issued to limit the audience for today 's sub-committee debate , a larger audience than for what some councillors thought more important matters . |
| 27 | His books are still read , though more now for the nostalgia they generate than for their real-world relevance . |
| 28 | They must exercise their powers in the interests of the exchange , rather than for their own benefit . |
| 29 | Those in work are paying for the pensions of those past retirement age at the current time , rather than for their own pensions in the future . |
| 30 | General practitioners ' threshold for visiting is probably lower for patients on lists that they cover than for their own patients . |