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Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	He was far more concerned about getting the policies right than about self-advancement .
2	The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident .
3	Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living .
4	The smaller houses were usually rectangular , up to fifteen feet by twelve if one-roomed , or thirty feet long if with two rooms .
5	In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards .
6	To the best of our knowledge and belief there are no material undisclosed liabilities or contingencies existing as at the date of this letter relating to the Group that would be the responsibility of a purchaser subsequent to the purchase of the shares of the Group other than any such liabilities or contingencies of which a prudent purchaser might reasonably be expected to know having made appropriate enquiries .
7	Financial circumstances other than as a result of redundancy under the terms of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 ( notice of which is received after the issue of the Booking Confirmation ) , disinclination to travel or weather conditions .
8	Elements other than in the uth , vth columns and rows are unaltered from those in A ; at the intersections of the uth , vth columns an rows the new elements are given by ( 3 ) ( with Buv = 0 ) , while the remaining elements Biu , Biv in the uth , vth columns and rows are unc We may make two deductions .
9	Welcome though these provisions were , they did not cater for activities such as investment management or investment advice in areas other than in securities dealings .
10	Also if abscesses come up in sites other than between the lower jaw antibiotics should be used as these abscesses can get very large without treatment .
11	Janata Dal 119 , Congress ( I ) 67 , BJP 36 , others 86 ( 14 seats undeclared as of March 5 ) .
12	He was speaking after one of his planes with just over a hundred Britons on board left Jordan with more half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape .
13	He was speaking after one of his planes with just over 100 Britons on board left Jordan with more than half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape .
14	The man who , in 1789 , borrowed £100 to start in business as a master-manufacturer was 64 years old when in 1825 the Stockton to Darlington line ushered in the age of the railway .
15	Firstly , the arm spines are long , up to 2 segments long while in the other species they tend to equal only one arm segment and secondly the skin of the disk is not thickened obscuring the plates beneath , although this may be an artefact due to the dried condition of the holotype there is usually some indication of a skin covering even in dried specimens .
16	Many innovations have more to do with changes in the value systems of the individuals concerned than with the acquisition of wholly new skills .
17	Departures other than from Dover carry a supplement .
18	Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place .
19	They also had to accept that attacks on the USSR by weapons launched from American bases other than in Britain might still bring down nuclear strikes on this country as long as it remained a member of Nato or was linked to the United States in some way or other .
20	She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy .
21	He then dealt with those who were late and those who were late would then appear to be six or seven minutes late because of these other preliminaries .
22	According to Baring Securities , a prominent trader of warrants in Tokyo and London , there were $120.2 billion-worth of Japanese warrant bonds outstanding as of mid-February .
23	Ready stiffened and spongeable fabrics especially made for roller blinds can be bought by the metre , and have the additional advantage of being available in widths up to 175cm ( 69in ) , making joins unnecessary except on the widest of windows .
24	The militants trudged along the empty lanes unobserved except by the Chief Constable of the county and his forces .
25	To inset text distances other than in steps of the default tab stops a more lengthy procedure is needed than shown in Task 24 .
26	The weather gave rise to problems other than in the air .
27	The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates .
28	Inside it was cool and sombre , the pillars stretching up into the blackness , the nave and aisles silent except for the birds which nested under the eaves outside .
29	Item — King Alexander III was murdered by Person or Persons unknown though for what reasons , and by what means , are still a mystery .
30	Even the recent report by the Royal College of Physicians , which was coprepared by Kay , accepts that conventional treatment of allergy leaves patients dissatisfied because of inefficacy or side effects .