Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But that guitar was on all my Alligator records . |
| 2 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |
| 3 | Yes , the basement is for those who fail , the lower basement is for those failures who blame their failure on their supporters . |
| 4 | I 've done erm I do n't know where that smell is in that but it 's all horrible ! |
| 5 | It suggests that a 65 year-old retiree with a large private income is in some meaningful sense more dependent than a 64 year-old labourer in receipt of a low weekly wage . |
| 6 | The administrative budget was for some RF26,000 million , a reduction in real terms over the previous year , and the investment budget stood at RF14,320,000 , of which some RF5,500 million came from domestic financing and the remainder ( 61 per cent ) from external sources . |
| 7 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 8 | Only in Flanders , where the comital demesne was in any case a large and solid block , was a complete network of prévôtés created before the end of the century . |
| 9 | It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement . |
| 10 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |
| 11 | In the year 1990/91 this support was worth some FFr20 million ( £2.06 million ; $3.6 million ) . |
| 12 | Aristotelian physics was to some extent quite successful . |
| 13 | But it 's a , it 's a problem that , that you 've put your finger on , and this is why I personally think that a lot of this literature is of such a poor quality . |
| 14 | Of course , they 've got out of all recognition today , but three a penny fresh herren were at that time . |
| 15 | It seems that this field is in some danger of being overrun . ’ |
| 16 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 17 | The facts of this case are of such gravity that a sentence of general deterrent is necessary , ’ said the judge . |
| 18 | probably the sensible course is for most books to be ordered sight unseen , with the occasional title requested ‘ on approval ’ when it is thought that seeing the book would be helpful . |
| 19 | You say , you know , this play is about this . |
| 20 | Whether these analysts commit or escape the individualistic fallacy is of little consequence because an exclusively therapeutic orientation has meant that the cultural , phylogenetic dimension of Freud 's work seems of little relevance to them . |
| 21 | If this conjecture is at all sound , then the distribution of occurrences of both in conjunction with a pronoun should be more prevalent in just those cases where plural references are in the minority , i.e. in the ‘ with ’ condition , and in the mixed description condition . |
| 22 | Standards which do not enable valid and reliable assessment are of little value to end users . |
| 23 | The Daily Express was by this time in pole position , but the Mail and Today were coming up fast on the inside . |
| 24 | If it is assumed that the Earth 's magnetic field was of this form in the past , then it is possible to estimate the position of the magnetic pole for rocks of known ages ( dated by radiometric methods ) by measuring their palaeomagnetism . |
| 25 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 26 | But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general . |
| 27 | Although only 6 per cent of children are educated in them , they exert considerable power , because the social elite are amongst those educated there and they in turn become successful in industry and business . |
| 28 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 29 | This term is in some respects a misnomer , for within it are the hepatic lipocytes ( fat storing or Ito cells ) and a specialised basement membrane-like matrix , which consists predominantly of type IV collagen , laminin , and proteoglycans . |
| 30 | There may be other reasons why forward and expected future spot rates may not be equal ( for example , Frenkel and Razin ( 1980 ) show that stochastic prices may result in a divergence between the two , but admit that this effect is of little significance in practice ) . |