Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) . |
| 2 | At Lincoln Crown Court today Judge Richard Hutchinson who 'd adjourned the case for reports sentenced him to two consecutive eighteen month prison terms . |
| 3 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 4 | It is possible , and indeed it is the normal practice for innkeepers to insure themselves against the risk of loss or damage to guests ' property , thus limiting the likely effect of such an occurrence . |
| 5 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 6 | From there , a succession of dives fill you with awe . |
| 7 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 8 | I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’ |
| 9 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 10 | Schools of beginners spend lots of time in the water at first , but who cares when it 's warm ? |
| 11 | LMS , appraisal systems and governing body involvements compound the demands of heads to remove themselves from the classrooms , and to dictate instructions down the line . |
| 12 | Tying pillows to their heads with towels to protect themselves from the larger falling lumps , they set off . |
| 13 | They do n't need chariots with wings to get themselves up the stairs . |
| 14 | However , the research on crinoids brought him into conflict with George Cumberland ; it is also clear from comments by H. Jelly and J. B. Pentland [ q.v. ] that this work was not held in universal high regard . |
| 15 | It has to be admitted that the sound quality on some of these recordings at times leaves something to be desired , and some listeners may no doubt be disturbed by the occasional fluctuations of pitch , as in the Lohengrin Prelude . |
| 16 | March 28-April 5 : at an extraordinary session of the RFSFR 's Congress of People 's Deputies Yeltsin defeated an attempt by conservatives to unseat him as Chairman . |
| 17 | Three patterns of distributions of authorship number are suggested by these my data : ( a ) the ‘ left shifted ’ pattern seen in high profile basic research journals ( Nature , Cell ) , in which over 90% of articles have one to five authors ( mode 2 ) ; ( b ) the ‘ right shifted ’ pattern characterised by few small group studies and many large group studies ( mode 7 ) seen in low profile basic research ( BBRC ) and clinical research ( JCO ) journals ; and ( c ) a rapid fall from six to seven authors ( mode 6 ) in general medical journals ( NEJM , Lancet ) . |
| 18 | But the argument is too neat , and dependent on the assumption of a desire on the part of filmmakers to express themselves about contemporary realities that was being repressed by the censorship system . |
| 19 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 20 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 21 | Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all . |
| 22 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 23 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 24 | There is also frequent movement as groups of children rearrange themselves for some fresh topic or activity . |
| 25 | But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life . |
| 26 | In particular , the annual flooding brought silt , which caused blooms of algae to develop which in turn supported a rich fishery . |
| 27 | I meant to pop the enclosed in a drawer of the chest of drawers to thank you for its removal — better late than never , and the card early to save a stamp . |
| 28 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 29 | THE ISLE OF Ely , transformed into a notorious offshore tax haven , nevertheless houses an unequalled variety of shops selling everything from local crafts to electronics and consumer goods , all duty free . |
| 30 | She had no trouble in registering with a secretarial agency , and a variety of jobs carried her through the long , drab days . |