Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the camp magazine critic noted : ‘ The effect of soprano and alto parts an octave lower than written by Handel was peculiar but … the aged Commandant , Graf Schwerin , thanked the men for the music with trembling voice and tears on his cheeks . ’ ) |
| 2 | As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years . |
| 3 | The conclusions of a more comprehensive ( albeit idealized ) three-dimensional modelling study provide a different picture and suggest that massive ozone destruction as seen over Antarctica is unlikely to occur over the Arctic with current conditions . |
| 4 | Already by the mid 1970s it appeared , however , that neutralisation under Great Power guarantees as elaborated by Malaysia was acceptable neither to the majority of Southeast Asian states nor to the external powers that count . |
| 5 | Nor can it be a matter of the effects he intends to cause in hearers , for one may say something with a definite meaning , with all sorts of different such intentions , and , in any case , the causal theory as advanced by Stevenson is concerned with the actual causal potency of language , not with what is intended . |
| 6 | So far the concept of ideology as used by Marx is vague and does not lead to a formula of ideology as being ‘ false ’ knowledge or untruth . |
| 7 | The stepwise progression of colorectal cancer through a series of genetic alterations as proposed by Vogelstein is attractive in that it postulates an inter-relationship between the accumulation of genertic changes and tumour stage . |
| 8 | Congruity as found in Berlin was monotonous and although Paris had magnificence and splendour , it lacked beauty and variety . |
| 9 | Community feeling in the area as monitored by Ahlbrandt was low , with barely more than one half of interviewees accepting the neighbourhood as a good or excellent place to live and two-thirds ( almost 20 per cent below the percentage for Allegheny West ) feeling strongly attached to it . |
| 10 | The origin legend of the Merovingians as recorded by Fredegar is important not only for its suggestion that the family claimed to be descended from a supernatural ancestor , but also for the implications it has for the rise of the dynasty . |