Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was . |
| 2 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 3 | This has been caused by infected suburban foxes from the east ( where until last month there was no vaccination programme ) finding their way into the city centre and crossing what was once the border into West Berlin . |
| 4 | These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks . |
| 5 | Some of these are particularly striking because they occur in circumstances where at first sight one would expect nothing interesting to happen . |
| 6 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 7 | The move from Greek Street — where at one stage he had had 60 boys being taught in the old Headmaster 's house — to Buxton Road had gone smoothly , and Daniel 's most illustrious pupil , Edge , had just become a Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 8 | For ten to twenty minutes he would lie there without moving , except for one eyebrow which jigged up and down while his mouth twitched sideways . |
| 9 | ‘ Great , ’ came the reply , ‘ except for one Scotsman who was electrocuted . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ As I say , straightforward except for one clause which commits Supersight to market a range of putters if Harley wins the British Open . |
| 11 | In fact the whole exercise was fairly straightforward , except for one problem which required a one-off solution . |
| 12 | Except for one girl who ran towards the rock where Angus was leaning , not just on the rock but also on a sealskin . |
| 13 | As he said : ‘ Except for one thing nothing more need be said . |
| 14 | On the Callanish moorland there are not many features , except for one thing I will tell you about soon . |
| 15 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 16 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 17 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 18 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 19 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 20 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 21 | Professor Stewart and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham identified a number of difficulties with these proposed changes , although with academic care they added the proviso : ‘ to identify problems is not to draw a conclusion ’ ( Stewart et al . |
| 22 | This practice ended when it was declared unlawful by judicial review in 1985 ( R v Hallstrom ex parte W ) , although under Scots law it continues with monitoring by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland . |
| 23 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 24 | Berlin showed far less sign of preparing for war than London , except in one particular which made life a good deal more difficult for its visitors . |
| 25 | Even for the three vertebrate cases , the ways in which the wing is constructed are quite different , although in each case they are modifications of the same fundamental structure , the pentadactyl limb . |
| 26 | But although in that house there was eight of us |
| 27 | Outdoor pursuits , especially walks , were promoted at all times , reading by oneself only when it was raining , and television not at all ( although in old age she herself became a tireless watcher of ‘ the News ’ ) . |
| 28 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 29 | The resistance was not new , although in this case its impact was dramatic . |
| 30 | If this process is done with a proper crimping tool there is very little chance of serious damage , although in this case it seemed by the damage done to the line that a normal pair of pliers had been used . |