Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] an [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not remember our Louis having had an amorous affair , except for an occasional romp in the hay with an attractive little tram-conductress called Cathie . |
| 2 | The place was almost empty except for an old man in one corner and a boy and a girl eating chicken and chips two booths away . |
| 3 | No further details were given , although as an active participant in the Esprit GP MIMD general purpose supercomputing project , Meiko is known to be closely reflecting the GP MIMD architecture in its own product line . |
| 4 | Apart from evaporation ( unlikely except in an unoccupied house in hot weather ) , the main problem is that water can be ‘ siphoned ’ or sucked out of traps if the system has not been designed properly to avoid pipes running ‘ full ’ and thus causing suction at the trap . |
| 5 | It follows , then , that the number of different species that can live on any one island is also much smaller than in an equivalent area in equivalent terrain on a continent : there just is not enough resource to maintain sufficiently large populations of lots of different kinds of animal . |
| 6 | For both these commentators Marx 's concept of ideology fails to be useful because of an overarching problem in his claim to have transcended the problem of ideology by the application of a materialist and scientific method . |
| 7 | He went missing one night when she was sleeping soundly across the hut from me , being under the mistaken impression that he and his crew had been grounded because of an electrical fault in their aircraft . |
| 8 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 9 | A more direct conflict between the judiciary and the Government arose because of an alleged change in the attitude of the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 10 | For example , in 1992 it was discovered that around 1,000 patients at a North Staffordshire hospital had received incorrect dosages of radiation therapy because of an alleged fault in a computer program . |
| 11 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 12 | In the end I was unable to go any further with it because Of an inflamed tendon in one Of my hands . |
| 13 | Thus in Weiner v. Gill ( 1906 C.A. ) although jewellery sold on approval was subsequently re-sold by the buyer , the court held that property had not passed because of an express statement in the original contract that property was not to pass until the seller was paid . |
| 14 | However , only $6 million has actually been paid out , because of an expected shortfall in compensation funds . |
| 15 | Both Marryat and O'Brian chose to write historical adventure rather than a more sober kind of historical fiction because of an abiding interest in human nature . |
| 16 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |