Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ‘ The Hollow Men ’ presents the degeneration of ritual , then Sweeney Agonistes while remaining aware of the decline attempts a reconstruction , but that reconstruction , like The Waste Land , sees humanity as trapped in the torturing cycle of sexual fertility . |
| 2 | The resistance to Bauthumley or Trapnel as figures worthy of study is part of an institutional assumption that literary study in higher education should force a separation between the elite and the popular , the sophisticated and the simplistic . |
| 3 | The effects of Basque nationalism have threatened to destabilise the Spanish state ; anti-nationalists living in the northern Spanish province of Navarra try to limit its spread by promoting regionalism — they campaign for the autonomy of Navarra while remaining faithful to their patria , Spain . |
| 4 | The Offtackle Plan of November 1949 referred to the need to retard a Soviet advance , but the Americans continued to refine their contingency plans for a fighting retreat to such peripheral positions in or around continental Europe as proved tenable against a Soviet offensive . |
| 5 | Government ministers accused international aid agencies , particularly the UN , of channelling aid through Turkey while remaining indifferent to Iran 's needs . |