Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am careful about fingers when fishing the Don , particularly Ann 's . |
| 2 | Most soils and sites will suit it , and it should be kept free of weeds while establishing . |
| 3 | Thus , in one case , a patient with inoperable cancer of the oesophagus was still in pain despite receiving 12 g of oral morphine a day when he was admitted to a hospice ; a week later he was free of pain when taking 60 mg of morphine a day and 10 mg of diazepam at night . |
| 4 | Children are more than welcome on our Warm Hearted Weekends and under 5's will be accommodated completely free of charge when sharing a room with an adult . |
| 5 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 6 | Watson was a Wimpey pilot who had been press-ganged onto fighters while awaiting a replacement aircraft . |
| 7 | Technically it has an advantage over percutaneous cholecystolithotomy in that it requires a tract only 12 French in diameter as opposed to 30 French . |
| 8 | High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months . |
| 9 | The guy the locals thought was more interested in fishing than doctoring . |
| 10 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 11 | Attis , was , however , more popular in Britain than has hitherto been supposed . |
| 12 | Even with the remaining difficulties , arbitration in the county court is certainly as accessible and free from technicality as pursuing an unfair dismissal claim before an industrial tribunal . |
| 13 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |
| 14 | Lozano was allowed to remain free on bail while appealing against his conviction . |
| 15 | This attitude may seem intensely romantic , but was acceptable to Eliot because sanctified through the anthropological eye . |
| 16 | What can be said about fluoride is that at concentrations of even less than one part per million ( the official dose ) it can cause toxic reactions in sensitive people and recent reassessments of the fluoridation scene suggest that this measure may be much more harmful to health than has been hitherto realized . |
| 17 | ‘ Towards his household he is not threatening nor is he contemptuous of counsel when offered , nor vindictive when searching out a fault . |
| 18 | Playing the piano is as easy for Cziffra as playing tiddly-winks is for you and me . |
| 19 | Having said that , it is a comparatively recent imposition for rents to be payable in advance as opposed to in arrear and many tenants would argue that some account should be taken of the fact that landlords have had their money , and therefore presumably interest on it , in advance . |
| 20 | The SJ lamps are similar to incandescents as regards colour appearance and colour rendering . |
| 21 | e ) the practical difficulties in deciding on professional grounds which clients are subject to restrictions when claiming on the fund ; |
| 22 | The Directors may grant Discounted Options which are subject to conditions as outlined in paragraph 7 above in parallel to options with an option price at full market value on the dealing day preceding the date of invitation . |
| 23 | The effect of the second condition was to require the laws of individual states to define specifically the kinds of sexual conduct which would be subject to regulation if presented in a patently offensive way . |
| 24 | What could be more appropriate at Christmas than to remember children who have been deserted by their mothers and know only a hospital as home . |
| 25 | The 8mm has best strength/weight advantage and the 7.5mm is ideal for use as joining ferrules with its 5.5mm inside diameter to accept other tubes , including arrow shafts . |
| 26 | These include allegations that she was unfit through drink while acting as duty officer in charge of the force on July 24 , 1990 ; that she swam in a pool with a male officer while dressed only in her underwear ; and that she later shared a jacuzzi with the same officer . |
| 27 | To us they seem at least as intriguing and worthy of study as do the signs and wonders which become the obsessive concern of mystics , religious and many others outside the laboratory . |
| 28 | Every member felt ill with shock when told the news . |
| 29 | The initial intake to English was large — so large in fact as to require organisation in two parallel classes and to strain rather seriously the initially slender staffing position . |
| 30 | This practice was very widespread in Kursk as opposed to the Smolensk guberniia . |