Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even more remarkable is the case of the Roman Republic , where for a century designs referring to the moneyers completely supplanted the symbols of the state ; the moneyers had the freedom to choose their own personal designs , such as family achievements or origins ( see fig. 15 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 3 | The first group of three do not keep newspapers or magazines in hard copy at all except for the specialist journals which are retained for one year . |
| 4 | The close association between Cranfield and AIB continues and , except for the specialist lectures and other expertise the AIB investigators provide during the course , AIB are no longer called upon to provide instructional courses to interrupt its normal investigation activities . |
| 5 | The outcome , perhaps inevitably , was that no new voting system at all was introduced , except for the university constituencies ( for it was deemed that graduates would be able to follow the mysteries of PR even if the rest of the electors could not ) . |
| 6 | That was the end of the action for the day , except for the route setters . |
| 7 | They 're basically the same , except for the blade lengths . |
| 8 | However , this did not seem to have been the case , particularly , except for the metal beads . |
| 9 | The tall brick houses would have looked like Victorian mansions , except for the pagoda roofs and the intricate wood lattices in place of glass window panes . |
| 10 | Except for the rock follies of The Royal Standard and the Daniel O'Donnell-welcoming confines of the Assembly Halls , Walthamstow is as rich in artistic merit as the Arctic is in elephants . |
| 11 | except for the form teachers with me helping them as well and Uncle Don |
| 12 | Except for the control reactions ( -UV ) , the samples were then exposed to 254 nm UV for 5 min and analyzed by 15% SDS-PAGE . |
| 13 | Illegitimate fertility rates also decreased , both in absolute terms and relative to marital fertility , except for the war years . |
| 14 | All those rules were for nominal measures — money supply , public spending and borrowing , growth in money GDP — rather than for the volume goals of output , jobs and expenditure that most earlier governments had pursued in vain . |
| 15 | Inclusion of the GFF and LPF into the bigram experiments appears to be less stable than for the trigram experiments — the number of top ranked correct words tends to drop for the bigram cases but remains almost constant for the trigram cases . |
| 16 | This may not have been very constructive , but , except towards the newspaper proprietors , it did not sound particularly bitter . |
| 17 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 18 | Their programme may , however , may prove more popular with the voters than with the foreign-exchange markets . |
| 19 | Where daylight was essential , a twelve-hour day was usual except in the winter months . |
| 20 | This was a position which also continued to express the preference of most abolitionists that government intervention be limited to policy guidelines to be rendered into detailed legislation and implemented by local assemblies and officials except in the Crown Colonies . |
| 21 | The Sultan 's writ was re-established throughout the Oman , except in the mountain fastnesses of the Djebel Akhdar , which were eventually cleared by the SAS in 1959 , while on their way back from Malaya for probable disbandment under the Sandys cuts ! |
| 22 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
| 23 | It is available by post , except in the summer months when there may be a seasonal shortage . |
| 24 | The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 25 | There were no lights except in the downstairs rooms , so he had learned to hold his breath against the muddy darkness to prevent it reaching into his lungs to suffocate him . |
| 26 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 27 | The predominant rocks are Cretaceous limestones , although in the Velebit mountains of northern Dalmatia the rocks are of Jurassic age . |
| 28 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 29 | The mortality rate due to acute gastroenteritis was significantly lower in the vitamin A clusters than in the placebo clusters . |
| 30 | Conditions in some ‘ private ’ clinics , to which patients without funds are sometimes sent by the State , but which are rarely inspected or monitored for standards , can be even more stark than in the state institutions . |