Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 2 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 3 | Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas . |
| 4 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 5 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 6 | No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 7 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 8 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 9 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
| 10 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 11 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 12 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 13 | They were trying plug them for a hundred and fifty thousand were n't they ? |
| 14 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 15 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 16 | Somewhere down there he stubbed himself against an ill-defined but hard mass of fact , and brought it up to the surface to examine it . |
| 17 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 18 | The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages . |
| 19 | Any agency which places you in an unviable or potentially dangerous position could be accused of negligence by delegation , and so it is equally not in their interests to place you inappropriately . |
| 20 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 21 | They are , of course , very adept at absorbing everything in a brief but this is no substitute for a profound knowledge and understanding of the subject . |
| 22 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 23 | The consistency in the build quality and feel of these two instruments is such that the only real difference lies in their pickup configurations ; swap one to the other and the EG-1 would become the EG-2 and vice-versa . |
| 24 | The Commissioner herself was sensitive to this perception , and was keen , right from the start , to establish herself as an independent and neutral body . |
| 25 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 26 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 27 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 28 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 29 | She hopes it 'll rid her of the physical and emotional pain . |
| 30 | At Pace 's 57th St space until 17 October , Claes Oldenburg has returned to the possibilities of human scale sculptures of harps , saxophones , scent bottles , a tie etc after his monumental commissions that have occupied him since the 1980s and which include ‘ Match Cover ’ in the Olympic village at Barcelona . |