Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 3 | It is as though the Prime Minister is trying to paint a canvas in the style of Georges Seurat , if I may be forgiven for referring to a continental artist . |
| 4 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 5 | You got ta get into the rocking mood and you |
| 6 | She has also been optimised for racing with a Kevlar sail wardrobe . |
| 7 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 8 | But things did n't quite go as expected during filming outside the Daily Mirror building in Holborn , London … |
| 9 | Rather , your list of goals should act as signposts to a pleasurable trip . |
| 10 | We will tell you all you need to know about surviving despite the twentieth-century diet , and the real facts about obesity . |
| 11 | The major theorists on acting , on the other hand , such as Diderot ( 1957 ) , Stanislavsky ( 1937 ) , Brecht ( 1973 ) , Craig ( 1962 ) , Artaud ( 1970 ) and Brook ( 1968 ) tend to be interested in a particular theatrical style while writers on theatre such as Weissman ( 1965 ) and Barish ( 1966 ) choose to write about acting from a psychoanalytical point of view . |
| 12 | If forced to answer the question ‘ is firmware hardware or software ? ’ , you would be excused for responding with a helpless ‘ yes ’ . |
| 13 | With no football to relieve his loss , Billy took it hard and , on Tuesday 26 July 1932 , the day after the team had reported for trailing for the new season , he was found dead in one of the dressing rooms . |
| 14 | An early decree ordered the destruction of heathen temples ; and the pressure of Westernisation was so relentless and meticulous that at one stage male Christians could be fined for urinating in the oriental , crouched position . |
| 15 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 16 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 17 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 18 | What looks like thinning in a major unit may turn out to be something much more complicated in the smaller constituent units . |
| 19 | Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) looks like running until the 2020s . |
| 20 | A COLLEGE course about former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher looks like turning into a giant flop . |
| 21 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 22 | A good entry expected with pegging on a new stretch of the River Shannon and Lough Bran . |
| 23 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 24 | I also think that having to report back would assist with dealing with the many , many people who have complained about the state of our footpaths network but individual complaints and with user groups and we 're off to see representatives out of County Council , they 're not here today but they 're off to hear it at our Committee meetings and I do think that having an officially report back to the Environment Committee would assist in meeting their requirements would be good P R. Thank you . |
| 25 | Ideas of comparison and ordering come from playing with the many toys with graded components , e.g. Russian nesting dolls , pyramid rings , stacking cubes and boxes . |
| 26 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 27 | An old upper-hab mind , lurking in hiding behind the new Fist mind ? |
| 28 | Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal . |
| 29 | ‘ It ranged from going to a new swimming pool with a whirly slide to going to the National Gallery . |
| 30 | TANU had succeeded in coping with a nationalist political movement , but could it cope with the demands of people whose national political consciousness might be further aroused by messages coming from outside the party 's framework of control ? |