Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [subord] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the relative strength of the economy , apartheid ideology and economic policies have kept the majority of the population living in poverty , at a level more comparable to the countries of Central America than to that of the affluent South African whites . |
| 2 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 3 | The elections had been called in early October [ see p. 37724 ] after President Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last remaining communist head of state in eastern Europe except for that of Albania , had agreed to resign just over a year into his six-year term and to transfer power to a freely elected head of state . |
| 4 | Personal memories : of the larger knots of passengers at reopened Templecombe than at most other stations between Exeter and Salisbury , a route far busier and better served than ten years ago ; but of travelling from Southampton to Newton Abbot via Westbury having dinner with a traveller from London to Crewkerne , the common Westbury-Taunton section way north of both passengers ' direct line being attractive because of the faster pace of HSTs . |
| 5 | Up to 10 times more taxpayers ' money was being invested in a single CTC than in all the county schools in the surrounding area , he said . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important single explanation was that Polish political values and practices were rather closer to those of Western Europe than to those of the more authoritarian East . |