Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cedric and Dorothy had seemed a centre , even an essential one ; so many well-known people had been in and out with their politics , books , causes , marches for this and that , demonstrations . |
| 2 | It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland . |
| 3 | We found no differences in the median cellular proportions of IgG subclasses between healthy and affected Crohn 's disease twins and in the separately analysed discordant twin pairs . |
| 4 | For both the TCR- α and TCR -β mutations , intercrosses between heterozygous mice gave rise to homozygous mutant mice at the expected frequency of 25% . |
| 5 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 6 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 7 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 8 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 9 | Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth . |
| 10 | The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward . |
| 11 | ( b ) by an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies , or |
| 12 | ( b ) an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies . |
| 13 | The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible . |
| 14 | Some of the best-known big firms have special discount offers for those who are willing to purchase their double-glazing during the summer months . |
| 15 | And we 've got a list of people who have responded to telesales offers for ambient music compilation albums — about three thousand on that one … |
| 16 | The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road . |
| 17 | As the speed builds through 200 knots I feel the increased pitch sensitivity , my bottom lifting from the parachute pack as I press the twin pitots on this tiny nose further towards the gleaming layer of snowy stratocumulus below . |
| 18 | She records for Mute Records , who , as the the sales of Dépeche Mode show , are no slouches in distributing sounds to the masses . |
| 19 | There is a method of solving the cube , due to Morwen Thistlethwaite , my colleague at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London , that always restores the cube in at most 50 moves ( recently reduced from 52 ) and simple counting shows that some positions require at least 18 moves ( counting 180° turns as single moves ) or 21 right-angle turns . |
| 20 | The artist alienates her objets trouvés through clever arrangements and marriages of incompatible elements — as in the Lautreamontesque encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table . |
| 21 | A full airbrake approach is a potential overshoot if the glider flies through any lift . |
| 22 | For secondly he sits through many lunches , discussing life and love and never mentioning football . |
| 23 | The association 's chief aim is to ‘ improve the professionalism of the security industry ’ , and it goes about this in a number of ways . |
| 24 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 25 | Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 . |
| 26 | But , in keeping with the decline of the Kentish hop industry , they have been turned into weekend retreats for green-wellied Londoners driving trendy 4×4 jeeps . |
| 27 | What was clearly stated was that the police have now powers as such to ban an event , unless it can be shown to be a public nuisance , and that they have no desire to fall out with all the local charities . |
| 28 | These were highly prized and burnt only by the priests or priestesses during magical rites , worship of the gods or for healing purposes . |
| 29 | This pattern has continued , with the three main activities absorbing 66 per cent of all loans and grants between 1971 and 1980 ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 30 | When one thinks about that , it becomes apparent how complex the matter is . |