Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the fifth decade of the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution had completely dislocated the traditional structure of English society , bringing riches to a few and misery to the many . |
| 2 | To the extent that there is an elision in the terms of debate , and the concept of postmodern arrangements is aligned only with a ‘ free ’ labour market variant of organizational forms , which actually means freedom for a few and restriction to much more repressive conditions for the many , then the terms of debate and choice are unnecessarily restricted . |
| 3 | But Chiros has a different and meaning of time all together . |
| 4 | ‘ But that is because the French still insist on having a top and bottom to society . |
| 5 | The latter had been described as a pewterer and metaller in 1666 ( see The Boke off Recorde of Kirkbie-Kendall , ed. by R. S. Fergusson ) later to become the well beloved " first and modern mayor of the Burgh " ( 1684 ) , and re-elected in 1708 . |
| 6 | In every question needing assessment a standard or scale of reference is required by which you can measure relative success , failure or achievement . |
| 7 | A diagrammatic note of early 1869 is closer to the ground : on the one side , academic philology ( Universitätsphilologie ) with its goal of the " scientific " study of history and language ; on the other , classical education ( klassische Bildung ) with its acknowledgement of the ancient world as a standard or model for life . |
| 8 | What 's In Orbit ran a blinder when runner-up to the useful Travado at Newbury , but was beaten when falling two out last time . |
| 9 | By the 1870s Christianity had survived and flourished , and it was not now mirth and ridicule from hedonists — the scientific age was a serious one-but assault from intellectuals and moralists which would shake the churches . |
| 10 | Also on 19–5 was the six-year-old Strawberry Road , champion colt in Australia as a three-year-old and winner of several good races in France , where he was now based . |
| 11 | But there is a darker aspect for he is liable to be suspected of misusing his magical powers as a sorcerer or purveyor of evil spells and potions . |
| 12 | It follows logically from such a position that the difference between men and other animals is simply one of degree , a heightening or lessening of certain kinds of sensibility . |
| 13 | A court of the United States may order the issuance of a subpoena requiring the appearance as a witness before it , or before a person or body designated by it , of a national or resident of the United States who is in a foreign country , or requiring the production of a specified document or other thing by him , if the court finds that particular testimony or the production of the document or other thing by him is necessary in the interests of justice , and , in other than a criminal action or proceeding , if the court finds , in addition , that it is not possible to obtain his testimony in admissible form without his personal appearance or to obtain the production of the document or other thing in any other manner . |
| 14 | An absentee , according to the 1950 Israeli law , includes anyone who , between 20 November 1947 and the ending of the State of Emergency , was ‘ a legal owner of any property situated in the area of Israel … and who , at any time during the said period , was a national or citizen of the Lebanon , Egypt , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Trans-Jordan , Iraq or the Yemen or was in one of these countries or in any part of Palestine outside the area of Israel … |
| 15 | A number of England players were horrified on hearing of the draconian sentence passed on Lamb — who has 28 days in which to lodge an appeal — as a top-up sanction following a fine and suspension from his county , Northants . |
| 16 | There are various other ways in which both magistrates and judges may contribute , either directly or indirectly , to the prison numbers crisis — for example , by imposing a fine without taking sufficient account of a defendant 's ability to pay , with the result that imprisonment is imposed for default ( see Moxon , 1993 ) ; or by imposing a suspended sentence in place of a fine or probation with the result that , in the event of a further offence , imprisonment is more likely to be imposed than might otherwise have been the case . |
| 17 | Conviction could lead to a fine or imprisonment of up to two years , or both . |
| 18 | SLEEPY Hugh O'Neil escaped a fine or jail for turning up two hours late at court yesterday — because cops searching his home had taken away his alarm clock . |
| 19 | Later the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal Forgetting protects one from pain what at the same time prevents a knowing and understanding of the self . |
| 20 | For example , the percentage reporting that they had had a cold or flu in the previous month showed little change with age . |
| 21 | In autumn — as the storms begin again — there may be a re-stirring and distribution of nutrients , and another bloom . |
| 22 | Frazer ‘ has extended the consciousness of the human mind into as dark a backward and abysm of time as has yet been explored ’ . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 24 | An entry can not be made by an instrument used to make an entry such as a key or piece of wire used to pull back internal bolts . |
| 25 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 26 | This was clearly a luxury and embarrassment to the Club , a situation resolved by the ever-accommodating Brewery . |
| 27 | Instead she was cautioned ; the official term for a telling-off and warning by police . |
| 28 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 29 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 30 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |