Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [n mass] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , some of the most memorable features of fieldwork in the Old World Tropics from Madagascar eastwards , leeches , are so little known that their behaviour towards animals other than humans is unrecorded . |
| 2 | The credibility of this contention is strengthened by a recent study of perinatal and infant mortality that linked vital registration data for deaths under 1 year so as to overcome numerator-denominator bias . |
| 3 | A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded . |
| 4 | The plunge in new car sales in Britain finally showed signs of bottoming out in September . |
| 5 | The post had been vacant since the resignation of Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) in September 1990 , when inter-Arab divisions heightened by the Gulf war had contributed to controversy over the timing of the proposed relocation of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis back to Cairo [ see p. 37726 ] . |