Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A keen sportsman , he was one of the mainstays of St. Martin 's Cricket Club in the Salisbury and District League where his really fast bowling was feared by opponents . |
2 | Just as cockfighting allows a world where women are rendered invisible , so Geertz 's writing creates a text where his actually present wife is ignored as a non-person . |
3 | One of 11 children , he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues . |
4 | White Stilton is a very young , immature Stilton and does not compare to the traditional blue variety , although I like it in salads and for cooking , where its slightly sharp flavour is penetrating . |
5 | This provides the reason why it was once extensively cultivated in the Aube , where its more southerly location and lack of limestone subsoil sometimes renders wines lacking the desirably high degree of acidity required for classic Champagnes . |
6 | Laugh she did , at any rate , and those convulsive movements succeeded where her more calculated efforts had failed . |
7 | Where there never many ghost stories speak about some of them but |
8 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
9 | He did not loiter to catch her although his apparently wayward path could seem designed to cross hers every now and then . |
10 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |
11 | When his physical charms began to fade ( although his innately aristocratic manners remained unimpaired ) Henreid turned to such forgettable swashbuckling epics as The Spanish Main ( 1945 ) , Thief of Damascus ( 1952 ) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1962 ) , as well as a number of television films . |
12 | Erm certainly , as a group we we welcome the fact that there is a provision for travellers in Harlow on the two permanent sites and we also welcome the upgrading er , of the to happen , although I very much hope it does n't . |
13 | On any other than his strongly classical face , they would have looked disturbingly effeminate . |
14 | Pickerage had gone straight to bed when he got back , and that day , Monday , had been something less than his dottily exuberant self . |
15 | Most of the passengers went off to don coats against what appeared to be a cold wind outside , but Filmer climbed down from the door of the dome-car end of the dining car without more protection than his carefully casual shirt and aristocratic tweed jacket . |
16 | Kerin , 53 , a trained economist , was reputed to be more flexible than his fiscally conservative predecessor , but he quickly sought to reassure the business sector that there would be no change in Treasury policy , stating that it was important to preserve " all the benefits of the hard decisions " taken over the past few years . |
17 | His books The Medieval Stage and The Elizabethan Stage remain classics of literary history , and in their range and period there are few better anthologies of verse than his Early English Lyrics and Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse . |
18 | A greater nervous intensity would have been more convincing than his almost icy calm as the brutes try to break into his home — something Al Pacino , Dustin 's near double , might have achieved . |
19 | Worse than my most fantastic nightmares ? |
20 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
21 | Whenever I see coloured people in Porteneil , buying souvenirs or stopping off for a snack , I hope that they will ask me something so that I can show how polite I am and prove that my reasoning is stronger than my more crass instincts , or training . |
22 | As he is an expert on such matters , the hon. Gentleman knows better than I that public prosecutions in Scotland are a matter for the Lord Advocate . |
23 | Although her much earlier work of semi-architectural constructions on a theatrical scale hinted at a different sort of audience participation , away from that of the story telling object , it has taken till now for her to challenge the viewer in an open way . |
24 | These in his original draft he had characterised at " Chetniks " , a term often loosely used at the time although its most precise meaning was to refer to the Royalist followers of Gen Mihailovitch . |
25 | Joseph Goebbels is the most hated man they have , other than their most beloved leader . |
26 | But I understood that many in the battalions — some of Soares 's people apart-soldiered even more poorly than their already mediocre training and leadership might have led an expert onlooker to anticipate . |
27 | Think , instead , of a large population in which there is not much movement , so that individuals tend to resemble their immediate neighbours more than their more distant neighbours , even though there is continuous interbreeding all over the whole area . |
28 | Only small States , freed from the burden of playing a leading role in international affairs and often more homogeneous economically and socially than their more powerful neighbours , could afford to apply the political panaceas of the Enlightenment with some approach to thoroughness . |
29 | But at 60 per cent offending , such children were being no more criminal — and sometimes considerably less criminal — than their more affluent peers . |
30 | Some regions and countries would have a comparative advantage , either because they were sparsely populated or because they cared less about the smell of a rubbish dump than their more pernickety neighbours did . |