Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will be remembered for his indefatigable work , for his great integrity , for his diplomacy , and for his never failing courtesy . |
| 2 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 3 | I welcome the hon. Gentleman to the Dispatch Box and to his newly appointed position . |
| 4 | But in its softly lit ballroom , scented by the adjacent conservatory , Grandcourt 's lethal contest with Gwendolen is begun . |
| 5 | It is all the more so in the housing market because of its highly geared nature . |
| 6 | There 's a lot of bourgeois about him , she was thinking , but only mildly critical because of her now established respect for him . |
| 7 | But he inspired awe not only because of his military resources , but also because of his lavishly spent wealth , his splendid building projects , the perception of his learning , the magnetism of his personality which brought him a following of other ecclesiastics . |
| 8 | Political observers felt , however , that difficulties could still arise with the USA , because of his publicly expressed view that Japan 's trade surplus was a " fundamentally insoluble problem " caused by unstoppable world demand for superior Japanese products , and would remain impervious to import tariffs or even major currency shifts . |
| 9 | There is considerable dissension in the literature as to what precisely constitutes desertification ; Kovda ( 1980 ) , for example , uses the term to describe land aridisation which involves all the processes that culminate in a reduction of the effective moisture content of soils and thus cause a decrease in biological productivity . |