Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If personality were irreversibly fixed by particular child-rearing practices the individual would remain for ever at the mercy of specific experiences in his past . |
| 2 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 3 | Four thousand goose-grazing hours an acre are not to be bandied about lightly as a conversation stopper . |
| 4 | Their lungs are not particularly large , despite the fact that a dolphin can hold its breath for five minutes or more , and some species of whales can submerge for up to an hour and survive on a single breath . |
| 5 | In addition , ex vivo platelet aggregation to ADP and adrenaline was significantly reduced in diabetic subjects treated for up to a year with therapeutic doses of gliclazide ( Poari et al , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Brenda knew that she would never again be able to wear her own panties , their prettiness contaminated for ever by the memory of this dead unknown girl . |
| 7 | Right X is an angle and what 's the cosine of the angle so if we we look at it this way erm it 's supposed to go through there through the origin . |
| 8 | The questions , listed for today in the Commons order paper , ask whether the fraud squad had the copy , if any disciplinary action had been taken against any officer and whether criminal inquiries are being pursued . |
| 9 | If you 've got them scattered about all over the place , it makes it much more difficult to try and save them , and , later on , get the data back in . |
| 10 | The improvements in the accident rate have come about largely as a result of increased awareness about safety matters and a developing safety culture . |
| 11 | The answer to all of this is surely that it is not the legal qualities of limited liability or separate personality in themselves that justify intervention , but the concentration of power in private hands that has come about partly as a result of their existence . |
| 12 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 13 | It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation . |
| 14 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 15 | Quite separately , the two children , Princess Beatrice , three , and Princess Eugenie , two , have been independently looked after again by the Queen ! |
| 16 | And of course it 's a budget which is on an attitude towards the Parkside Pool problem which we disagree with therefore in no way do we support it . |
| 17 | It had sounded to him as if the shot had come from somewhere near the pools . |
| 18 | On April 10th in the year nineteen hundred and eighty five — the legions again marched on Royal Bath — well , fifty of us by coach , car and rail — we had come from all over the country to join a contingent of local enthusiasts like lambs to the slaughter at Bath University for the Medau Easter Course . |
| 19 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure you can jump from there to the strategy of the business . |
| 21 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 22 | In the Czech Lands Civic Forum won about half the total votes , and in Slovakia PAV emerged as the clear winner , although the latter had been expected until shortly before the election to come second to the CDM . |
| 23 | ‘ Want you to come in lower down the batting order . ’ |
| 24 | and people were to come in here on the Tuesday . |
| 25 | High latitudes were temperate until cooling began in the mid-to-late Pliocene ; overall cooling from then to the present has been punctuated by spells of warming . |
| 26 | If the entire index is in main storage , the correct cylinder to search is located in well under a millisecond . |
| 27 | Branches report from all over the UK on the interest and help provided by the management and staff of Cannon Cinemas , and the company 's support is gratefully acknowledged by Central Council . |
| 28 | San Antonio is , however , only one site in many to be investigated in detail by archaeologists and geomorphologists and it is too early to extrapolate from there to the Maya lowlands in general . |
| 29 | Traditionally the damaged bone was either left to repair and replace itself as best it could or bone was harvested from elsewhere in the body and used to augment the lost bone . |
| 30 | Once sorted , the berries are sent to England to be distilled along with the other natural ingredients harvested from all over the world . |