Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | One solution is to integrate roses in mixed borders where their bare appearance in winter and early spring is disguised by adjacent shrubs . |
2 | Obviously when the agency claims allegiance to an established precedent where its formal interests in pollution control or its organizational interests are served , it lends further support to the principle of equity . |
3 | The Stillmans moved to Florence in 1878 , whence she continued to send work regularly to exhibitions in Britain and the USA , where her first appearance in 1875 had drawn favourable notice from the novelist and art amateur Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
4 | But , having outgrown Stowe and with time to kill before going up to Cambridge , he gravitated , almost inevitably , to the London School of Economics , where his active interest in politics began to overshadow his desire to be a poet . |
5 | I was missing the warmth of the people , although my two years in the ‘ east ’ gave me quite a lot of material which you will discover in the following pages . |
6 | Cell members themselves seemed to be much more impervious to the danger of possible political attacks on them than their nervous counterparts in Smolensk guberniia . |
7 | Treatments that facilitate GABA neurotransmission have been shown to prevent neuronal injury in both the substantia nigra and hippocampus , so the balance between excitatory and inhibitory transmitters may be more relevant than their absolute concentration in extracellular fluid . |
8 | Other than their mutual interest in Harry , she wondered what on earth he and Miss Maynard could possibly be talking about . |
9 | Each smaller work group attempts to perform better than their rival groups in both quality control and in the number of suggestions they offer to improve productivity . |
10 | In Chapter 9 we discuss some of the arguments which have been put forward to suggest that British companies are likely to be slower than their international competitors in taking up new technology based products and production processes . |
11 | The majority of applicants qualify for sickness and disability benefit and it is to be expected that the proportion of manual workers receiving such benefits is higher than their corresponding proportion in the general population . |
12 | Plants of splurge — weed will have less genetic identity , will be less entitled to the name ‘ individual ’ than their opposite numbers in bottle-wrack . |
13 | When it comes to Guinness , can UK prosecutors do better than their American counterparts in putting Boesky 's tipoffs to good use ? |
14 | While Sears ( 1983 ) study of university students reported that mature students are less likely to be more successful than their younger counterparts in the areas of science , engineering and medicine , Brennan and McGeevor ( 1985 ) , in their study of CNAA graduates , report that mature students do better than younger students in all areas of study except those relating to engineering subjects . |
15 | Blumler also suggested that parliamentary television was markedly bipartisan , paying relatively little attention to the Liberal Democrats and Members of other smaller parties , but analysis of the actuality contributions of various participants shows that they received more than their proportionate strength in the House ; Liberal Democrats were given 4.3% of total actuality contributions and took part on 7.8% of contribution occasions . |
16 | ‘ The Lady Margaret was appointed Regent by no less a person than her late husband in his will . |
17 | I shall in considering the work of Schüssler Fiorenza look in particular at the essay ‘ Toward a Critical Theological Self-Understanding of Biblical Scholarship ’ , in her collected essays Bread Not Stone , as this represents a somewhat later and more refined perspective than her earlier book In Memory of Her , though I shall also draw on that work . |
18 | The credibility of Defence in the Whitehall market-place was further weakened by three other factors : first , the ‘ bull ’ market enjoyed by the high-spending , socially-orientated departments — Health , Education , Labour and Social Services ; secondly , the failure of our West European allies to match our level of Defence expenditure , thus providing arguments that Britain was doing more than her fair share in collective defence ; and thirdly , trading rivals , like Germany and Japan , honing their competitive edge with lower military expenditure , likewise adding to the consensus view that Britain was overspending on Defence however potent the Soviet military threat might be . |
19 | It may be instructive that the prime mover in the action was an American bank ( Allied International ) which has subsequently ceased operations in London and which withdrew from the action on those grounds , although their vice president in charge of operations at the material time was , and still is , resident here . |
20 | Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation . |
21 | Aesthetic sensibility was almost certainly older than its earliest expression in symbolic art . |
22 | If the price of the good in their market is , for whatever reason , known to be higher than its average price in the whole economy they will take advantage of this high relative price and supply a higher quantity of the good than they otherwise would . |
23 | In the crucial aspect of image-building , the TDC has had more to do than its regional partner in trying to alter the widely-held perception of Teesside as an area dominated by smoking chimneys . |
24 | When eating flat-out , the beast easily consumes more than its own weight in plants every day . |
25 | This may well go on further purchases — Goldman said he considers Spain to be a good potential market , although his former interest in Germany is waning due to the impending recession in the region . |
26 | None of his victories was more characteristic of his indomitable will to win than his first success in the Arlington Million . |
27 | Alternatively , instead of saving , the individual could borrow and so spend more than his present income in the present period . |
28 | Benjamin Titford had managed to clamber up the social ladder , as we have seen — rising , in the process , higher than his impoverished cousins in Frome had done . |
29 | On the other hand teaching machines are one way of utilising the skilled teacher on a larger scale than his personal activity in the classroom . |
30 | The frailty of such buildings is indicated in William Godwin 's novel , Caleb Williams ( 1794 ) , for Mr Falkland seems to be able to demolish a cottage with little more than his bare hands in order to prevent a fire from spreading . |