Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cyclists are at substantially less risk from exhaust fumes than car drivers , according to a new report by Greenpeace . |
| 2 | Of course , warranties and maintenance contracts are all very well , but — as customers of Ti'ko and Olympic Technology know to their cost — agreements with manufacturers are of precious little use if the company goes bust . |
| 3 | If we fail to accept this fact we may spend our lives seeking a " better " parent who can do more for us — and many social work clients are in just this situation of seeking . |
| 4 | Now some relationships are of just this kind . |
| 5 | Indeed , as Wolfram points out , such relationships are of so little importance within British kinship that there are no recognized kinship terms for many of these relationships gained through marriage ( Wolfram , 1987 , p. 4 ) . |
| 6 | This explanation is consistent with the finding that monitoring latencies were considerably slower in the two conditions where preceding words were of considerably less help in predicting target words . |
| 7 | Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors . |
| 8 | It has been argued that death-feigning in natural circumstances is of comparatively little use and far too risky to become a major defence strategy . |
| 9 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 10 | The new products are priced at from $17,800 to $128,000 including software , and shipment dates are from late this month to early September . |
| 11 | The rest of his discussion in these few pages is about how all sorts of possible answers could be proposed , involving the ‘ balancing of social values ’ . |
| 12 | In a multinational empire such as that of the tsars , the divisions between Great Russians , Ukrainians , White Russians , Poles , Georgians , Armenians , Jews and the hundred other national minorities may at different times be of infinitely more significance than the divisions between classes . |
| 13 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ What has happened to the charity is terrible , volunteers were in late each night sorting goods . |