Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy for returns of non faulty goods is to give a refund for any item where proof of purchase can be provided . |
| 2 | Still critical of the economic and social pressures which centred around the city they could yet find no alternative in this countryside where nature , it was known , was not Marlowe 's ‘ beds of roses ‘ . |
| 3 | It took seven years to complete , but then that 's the secret behind the success story of this home where time and careful work have combined to create an elegant and colourful base for this busy family lifestyle . |
| 4 | The effects of oil appeared to halt the decline in the 1980s , and it is a principal question for this book whether recovery is being , or can be , generated by the growth of services ( such as financial services ) provided to other countries ( see below ) . |
| 5 | A detailed analysis of time likely for elements of each job before commencement should be undertaken to indicate ways in which , for example , some stages can be done back-to-back and total time saved . |
| 6 | However , DHAs could suffer the secondary effects of such selection if GP budget-holders choose to select only the lower risks leaving the DHA with the higher-cost patients within any category . |
| 7 | They were perpetrated by my great-aunt Olwen , an eccentric lady with more enthusiasm than talent ! ’ |
| 8 | Today I look at Russia with more sadness than anger . |
| 9 | Given the significance of patronage in securing a promotion , or in placing an officer in a situation where he might have an opportunity to distinguish himself , and thus strengthen his claims to advancement , there was a good incentive to arrange for a transfer to another ship where favour might be expected . |
| 10 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 11 | I played six versions of this song as comparison , but the only singer on record who really ‘ gets ’ it is the veteran Trude Hesterberg on the 1958 Berlin recording . |
| 12 | Then for the acoustics of this hall where sound gets congested at the back of the orchestra we have two hyper-cardioid microphones ( which are very directional ) looking down onto the percussion . |
| 13 | Road transport of some sort than rail transport . |
| 14 | In charge of that tour as captain and manager was Tom Lowry of Wellington . |
| 15 | ‘ The Reverend Father , ’ Athelstan replied smoothly , ‘ would like a bowl of thick leek soup , some bread , and a cup of wine with more water than claret . ’ |
| 16 | Furthermore , the pilots are usually amateurs with less experience than airline pilots and their skills and knowledge of aviation are limited . |
| 17 | This was not a limitation in this analysis because endo-metriosis has to be diagnosed by laparoscopy or laparotomy . |
| 18 | It has in addition a resplendent meaning in that life before retirement is only childhood and the period of retirement is the time when we reach maturity and realise the full significance of life . |
| 19 | The orthodox Jews are the only community in this country where sex is on women 's terms , and where women can truthfully say that they are not used by their husbands . |
| 20 | Perhaps the decision was made because it was here that Manzoni fell when attempting to negotiate a stairway with more enthusiasm than regard for his age . |
| 21 | Ashley yelled , flourishing a bottle of generic whisky with more enthusiasm than care ; she cracked the bottle off the oak-panelled wall of the castle 's crowded entrance hall , but without , apparently , causing damage to either . |
| 22 | Other changes are also required to reverse the trend towards centralisation and authorities with more responsibility than power . |
| 23 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 24 | For all these reasons , their fears in this respect as youth workers are based on the realities of heterosexism . |
| 25 | Political confidence would be instilled through each side ceasing its propaganda efforts and undertaking to recognize and respect the political and social systems of the other until such time as reunification was achieved . |
| 26 | They paid him and the reason they ai n't going to have nobody back there any more back to this firm cos safety rules . |
| 27 | I therefore suggest that all possible steps are taken to dispose soonest of all surrendered personnel in this area whether German , Austrian or Russian by moving them to northern Italy or their homes whichever may be the policy . |
| 28 | He was therefore asking as a matter of urgency that " all possible steps " should be taken " to dispose soonest of all surrendered personnel in this area whether German , Austrian or Russian " by " moving them to northern Italy or their homes whichever may be the policy " . |
| 29 | Legalization is not required , as the Convention already provided for the exclusion of this requirement when transmission was through a Central Authority . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , now that you ask , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ the picture I get is of a group of young people with more money than sense , buying temporary pleasures because they have n't got a clue where to find enjoyment of the more permanent sort . ’ |