Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also implies that the over-ridden rocks may not have been subjected to the excessive burial or the degree of disturbance once assumed . |
| 2 | If the Caucasus had been easier to control or the Khan of Khiva less suspicious , the western shore of the Caspian might have become the embarkation point for central Asia . |
| 3 | The absence of macroscopic oesophagitis or the presence of erythema only . |
| 4 | Issues such as the abolition of capital punishment or the legislation on abortion inevitably revealed a picture of an open , competitive pattern of politics where the state was often content to sit back and referee the group struggle . |
| 5 | These marvellous towers may a little represent the pride of the landlord-citizens or the arrogance of families recently enriched ; but they certainly reflect the aspirations of many of the lesser cities in their heyday — and many of the greater too ; what is peculiar to San Gimignano is that a group of towers survive . |
| 6 | Nearby , you can visit the waterfall at Sillans where brave bathers plunge into the rocky pools or the caves at Villecroze once inhabited by monks . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , absence from an examination or the non-completion of coursework often results in the award of a fail grade . |
| 8 | He wants to grasp the nature or the practice of ideology scientifically and characterizes ‘ ideology ’ as whole , unified by its problematic and dependent on the social situation in which it occurs . |
| 9 | It was what anyone would say , anyone used to politics or business or the world of affairs generally . |
| 10 | Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans . |
| 11 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 12 | For an investor in bookish securities , the greatest potential rewards remain concentrated in my view in publishing , where the element of magic still applies . |
| 13 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 14 | It is not simply that these areas suffer from deprivation and poverty , but there is a danger of many outer estates , in particular , becoming areas which have a quite different social and economic system , operating almost at subsistence level , depending entirely on the public sector , where the opportunities for improvement either through self-help or through outside intervention are minimal . |
| 15 | The BMWs slowly roll down the impressive new production line where the team of mechanics eagerly await their arrival — so they can carefully take the cars to pieces . |
| 16 | In order to construct an arbitrage transaction where the number of futures exactly offsets the basket of shares in the index , it is necessary to be able to hold shares or futures in fractional quantities , which is not possible . |
| 17 | Having borrowed the document , Aitken 's account of his later behaviour was clear-cut and uncontroversial except on a money question where the weight of evidence strongly supported his contentions . |
| 18 | In the same year Sir Thomas Roe went as English representative in turn to The Hague , Copenhagen and Königsberg ( where the Elector of Brandenburg then was ) before also helping with the Swedish–Polish negotiations . |
| 19 | The big world of geopolitics , where the truth about Lockerbie probably lies , demands the presence of the troupe elsewhere . |
| 20 | They might work in the graduate school of a good American university , where a variety of methods already abounds . |
| 21 | There is a suggestion that banknote paper was made here once , and there is also evidence of a button factory where a row of cottages now stands . |
| 22 | The writing on the wall for Mr Husak became apparent in the adulation which ordinary Czechoslovak citizens showed for Mr Gorbachev , and in the pages of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper , Pravda , where a series of articles harshly critical of Mr Husak 's patron , Leonid Brezhnev , began to appear . |
| 23 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 24 | I think , one of the most important things is finding a trusting friend or a member of family so that you can then try express some of the feelings so that you 're in a better position erm , to try and explain the problem . |
| 25 | The need for more staff time to organize training , or a member of staff specifically employed to organize/co-ordinate training , was mentioned by over a quarter of all authorities ( see Table 25 ) : |
| 26 | You could n't get a cup of tea or a cup of coffee anywhere . |
| 27 | It follows that if there is a small bald patch ( or a patch with grooves less than 1.6 mm deep ) 4 cm in diameter on a tread width of 12 cm an offence is committed for 4 cm is more than a quarter of the 12 cm width of tread . |
| 28 | If I were a head teacher or a chair of governors now , I would use quite blatantly the annual meeting and the annual report as ways of sounding the loudest and brightest clarion calls about my school 's performance and achievements … |
| 29 | These cheese buns have a rich filling and a crisp crust , which are just right with a cup of coffee at breakfast or a glass of wine later in the day . |
| 30 | There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant . |