Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The richest town in the area was Lavenham , where trade developed early , and where perhaps three-quarters of the population depended directly or indirectly on cloth manufacturing . |
| 2 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 3 | The ration in the cities , where around half of the 2,000,000 population lived , would now be three kilogrammes per person per month . |
| 4 | The Board 's activities have been concentrated into three growth areas — around Fort William , Inverness and Caithness , where almost one-half of the labour force of the region live — and the aim is to strengthen them further as both industrial and service centres . |
| 5 | Difficult situations often arise where a conveyancer is acting for seller and buyer ( eg they are both long-established clients of your firm ) where either one of the parties instructs you then to renegotiate the price of the transaction . |
| 6 | This satisfaction is relative , one or either may emerge less than entirely happy with the result . |
| 7 | Thus , while Tough 's work may provide some interesting ideas for dealing with functional aspects of spontaneous speech , it may be less than entirely satisfactory as a means of obtaining reliable and objective assessment information . |
| 8 | The argument for this is not convincing , because relations with business remained informal and instrumental and local governments were , for a time , more rather than less troublesome for the centre . |
| 9 | Although perhaps reminiscent of the Whitbread race , with its high profile , closely fought circumnavigation , the British Steel Challenge is in many ways the antithesis . |
| 10 | Although only fifteen at the time of his father 's death he soon showed himself to be a cunning and unscrupulous politician . |
| 11 | Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND . |
| 12 | Although somewhat hazy about the precise nature of these forces , Morgenthau was clear that the subject needed to be elevated to a science ; otherwise its radical message for American policy would be undermined by the wishful thinking of those wanting to return to a pre-war policy of isolationism . |
| 13 | The Opposition 's approach is revealing , although entirely understandable with the way the polls are going . |
| 14 | The deep red , main crop rhubarb — although much coarser with an often stringy skin — has a clean , tart flavour . |
| 15 | Although largely unrecognized by the scientific establishment in England , Palmer enjoyed some contemporary recognition on the Continent : his explanation of colour blindness first appears in a secondary account in L. C. Lichtenberg 's Magazin für das Neuste aus der Physik in 1781 and was then cited in texts such as J. S. T. Gehler 's Physikalisches Wörterbuch , while his first monograph of 1777 ( which he issued in translation in Paris in the same year ) was extravagantly reviewed in the Journal Encyclopédique . |
| 16 | In recent months , Angie La Mar , Roger D , Ethnic and Minority and many other comics have played here — names which , although largely unknown to the mainstream , are guaranteed to sell out the night . |
| 17 | Gabriel , although normally one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth , had suddenly become aggressive . |
| 18 | The vast majority of the British public , although generally sympathetic to the problems , maintain stubborn and inflexible attitudes to the subject of mental handicap , especially if the problems intrude into their lives . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , unless the transaction is a management buy-in , for which it is appropriate to ask for a full set of warranties , a reasonable compromise is for the vendor to give the purchaser a set of warranties shorter than normally appropriate on a share sale . |
| 20 | Kennedy was intent upon leading the Western World with an open-handedness that made Britain no more than just one of the Western European states . |
| 21 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 22 | Rather than just appropriate to the careers service . |
| 23 | But the Board was more than just well-prepared for the Hinkley C Inquiry . |
| 24 | It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home . |
| 25 | Now that the barriers with Eastern Europe have been removed , businesses need to translate documents into many more languages than just those of the EC member states . |
| 26 | Even at their best in the early '80s , with the great Alison Phillips on drums , they were merely a poor man 's Fall/Three Johns/Creepers , although always reliable for a good live set . |
| 27 | Even at their best in the early '80s , with the great Alison Phillips on drums , they were merely a poor man 's Fall/Three Johns/Creepers , although always reliable for a good live set . |
| 28 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 29 | He was more than ever aware of the control which Burun was capable of exercising over the affairs of the Kha-Khan 's court . |
| 30 | But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers . |