Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A keen sportsman , he was one of the mainstays of St. Martin 's Cricket Club in the Salisbury and District League where his really fast bowling was feared by opponents . |
| 2 | Just as cockfighting allows a world where women are rendered invisible , so Geertz 's writing creates a text where his actually present wife is ignored as a non-person . |
| 3 | One of 11 children , he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues . |
| 4 | White Stilton is a very young , immature Stilton and does not compare to the traditional blue variety , although I like it in salads and for cooking , where its slightly sharp flavour is penetrating . |
| 5 | This provides the reason why it was once extensively cultivated in the Aube , where its more southerly location and lack of limestone subsoil sometimes renders wines lacking the desirably high degree of acidity required for classic Champagnes . |
| 6 | Where there never many ghost stories speak about some of them but |
| 7 | He did not loiter to catch her although his apparently wayward path could seem designed to cross hers every now and then . |
| 8 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |
| 9 | Erm certainly , as a group we we welcome the fact that there is a provision for travellers in Harlow on the two permanent sites and we also welcome the upgrading er , of the to happen , although I very much hope it does n't . |
| 10 | On any other than his strongly classical face , they would have looked disturbingly effeminate . |
| 11 | Pickerage had gone straight to bed when he got back , and that day , Monday , had been something less than his dottily exuberant self . |
| 12 | Most of the passengers went off to don coats against what appeared to be a cold wind outside , but Filmer climbed down from the door of the dome-car end of the dining car without more protection than his carefully casual shirt and aristocratic tweed jacket . |
| 13 | Kerin , 53 , a trained economist , was reputed to be more flexible than his fiscally conservative predecessor , but he quickly sought to reassure the business sector that there would be no change in Treasury policy , stating that it was important to preserve " all the benefits of the hard decisions " taken over the past few years . |
| 14 | A greater nervous intensity would have been more convincing than his almost icy calm as the brutes try to break into his home — something Al Pacino , Dustin 's near double , might have achieved . |
| 15 | Although her much earlier work of semi-architectural constructions on a theatrical scale hinted at a different sort of audience participation , away from that of the story telling object , it has taken till now for her to challenge the viewer in an open way . |
| 16 | These in his original draft he had characterised at " Chetniks " , a term often loosely used at the time although its most precise meaning was to refer to the Royalist followers of Gen Mihailovitch . |
| 17 | Joseph Goebbels is the most hated man they have , other than their most beloved leader . |
| 18 | But I understood that many in the battalions — some of Soares 's people apart-soldiered even more poorly than their already mediocre training and leadership might have led an expert onlooker to anticipate . |
| 19 | Indeed , many of the distinctive characteristics of the ‘ peasant-proletarian ’ — the relatively low level of their skill , wages and education , and even their marked tendency to marry earlier than their more urbanized counterpart — appear to have weakened their commitment to sustained protest . |
| 20 | Suffice to say JTR was travelling through territory totally ruled by a very wealthy network of families who , politics aside , were more in touch with their peasantry than their less isolated land owning peers . |
| 21 | Happily she chose these occasions to appear in the form of a young woman rather than her more usual guise of a cow . |
| 22 | Although their more militant stance was probably vital for the development of the nationalist movement , the bombastic and buccaneering approach of the new breed of politician has led to accusations that they ‘ lowered the tone of political life ’ . |
| 23 | As regards the public perception of the term ‘ antique ’ , I think it would be fair to say that a great many of today 's most eminent collectors , particularly in America , and public institutions , are definitely beginning to interpret the word far more loosely than its previously accepted definition of ‘ a hundred years old ’ and , it is clearly a great shame that two of the most original and internationally influential artistic styles ever to emerge in Britain are almost entirely excluded from the Fair : the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau , on the basis of age . |
| 24 | It was as if the ‘ logical conservatism' ’ of his remark was more significant and more offensive to his ( predominantly left-wing ) audience than its thoroughly socialist content . ’ |
| 25 | That at Hyderabad with its wide cornices and balustraded roof detail was somewhat less austere than its more utilitarian neighbour at Secunderabad . |
| 26 | If it has one significant advantage , other than its relatively low cost , it is in its ability to grow back into the complete XPS system should the user ever require such capabilities . |
| 27 | Spreading such immediately incriminating material around was more risky than one truly safe house . |
| 28 | His thought is best conveyed through some of his published sermons , although his most important work , containing the idea of probability as the guide to life , is The Analogy of Religion . |
| 29 | Besides , who can you trust more than your very own brother ? ’ |
| 30 | If nothing else flexible response as adopted in December 1967 had caused the planners to concentrate on actual rather than target forces . |