Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wind pollination in Peninsular Malaysia is rare and the introduced wind-pollinated Pinus caribaea does not set seed there , except on mountain ridges or on the coast . |
| 2 | The CD databases such as Lotus One Source are more user friendly than on line databases and without the pressure of on line time costs it is easier to give careful consideration to the search strategy . |
| 3 | Other than at football matches or on coach journeys , people sing less spontaneously than in previous generations . |
| 4 | We now need to consider margins where the movement is predominantly transform and plates meet along transform faults rather than at subduction zones or along collision boundaries . |
| 5 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 6 | Some 2.7 million people still live in affected areas--400,000 of them in areas made unfit for human habitation because of radiation levels or in areas from which they should have been moved . |
| 7 | When this routine becomes disorganised — as after time-zone transitions and during night-work — this can be inconvenient , particularly if we have a busy and highly-ordered life-style , and even socially embarrassing . |
| 8 | Whenever the context of production of the message is spatially and/or temporally separated from the context of reception ( as in telephone conversations and in most written uses of language ) , the centre of orientation for the interpretation of deixis is not perceptually available to the addressee and therefore needs to be appropriately reconstructed . |