Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 2 | In both the United States and Great Britain more people die in hospitals and homes for the elderly than in their own houses . |
| 3 | Thus the effect of containment resembles the unintended power of the subordinates in this play who execute the commands of the powerful and of whom the Governor complains : |
| 4 | The rose buds were made by arranging three petals in a bud shape , one on top of the other but with their edges showing , and then placing three sepals over the top of the bud to give a realistic touch of green . |
| 5 | Critics of this view variously suggest that Socialist propensity to ‘ violence ’ anticipated that of the right ; that unnecessary enemies for the Republic were created by anticlericalism and , in general , too narrow a view on the part of the left as to what constituted acceptable ‘ Republican ’ values , credentials and behaviour ; and that the CEDA , a potentially Christian Democratic party which might have evolved in a genuinely democratic direction , was actually forced rightwards by the conduct of the left . |
| 6 | Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question . |
| 7 | The survival value of this act lies not with the individual but with its hive community . |
| 8 | You can have the finest degree in the world , but at the end of the day you are judged as an individual and on your performance and them things begin to happen . |
| 9 | ( To clear up a myth once and for all , rhino horn is in demand not as an aphrodisiac but for its supposed fever-reducing qualities . |
| 10 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 11 | Training , for the younger members of the family through ATB courses , was sometimes seen as an ‘ easy option ’ by the father who felt that instruction of the son came better from a professional than from himself . |
| 12 | Assuming a social code rather nearer to the Confucian than to our own , the man who wants to go to Bali might choose to obey his parents although convinced that to stay in England is both to his own disadvantage and of no real advantage to them . |
| 13 | There was one long controversy , however , in which Tyndale was on the defensive and in which his language , though strong , was considerably less rude than that of his opponent . |
| 14 | The year 1968 drew to a close and with it the life of Londonderry Corporation . |
| 15 | Seb hammered at the door and tugged at the bell-pull but without anyone answering . |