Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys , on the other hand , tend towards holist strategies , and get training in serialist strategies from their teachers , thus providing the opportunity for them to become versatile learners . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of people feel shy about going into a Tax Office , so this is a good opportunity for them to get any help they need , ’ explained Peter Guy , the Inland Revenue 's Customer Service Manager in the province . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the Summer term it 's common practice in most schools to invite the parents of the new intake of children to visit the school to explain the routines and organisation , to give them a chance to meet the teachers and also to provide an opportunity for them to share any concerns they might have . |
| 4 | Although the Unix International/OSF wars seem to have abated at the moment , ‘ there is always an excuse for them to rip each others hearts out , leaving Bill Gates to have the market , ’ says Rothstein . |
| 5 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 6 | Instead of brushing your hair after setting which can cause splitting , gently run your fingers through it to create tousled waves . |
| 7 | Japan 's financial structure offers large companies significant advantages in access to funds to finance rapid expansion , and offers substantial support for them to survive periodic recessions . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century the name ‘ essential hypertension ’ was invented , meaning that in some patients a rise in blood pressure is a protective mechanism , essential in order to overcome narrowing of the arteries and force blood through them to reach vital organs . |
| 9 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |
| 10 | Twenty pound off you owe ten pound . |
| 11 | ‘ It was not so much of a stretch for me to do that role as people might think , ’ Dustin explained . |
| 12 | Consequently , it is often impossible for lone appointees to represent the views of users effectively and authorities must become more seriously committed to listening to service user 's opinions and providing opportunities for them to exercise real influence . |
| 13 | Er on the public sector side this was quite specific , the child 's and the public sector er group er were also going to develop an internal audit product for the public sector but they a huge market in fact and we saw er great opportunities for us to develop that side of the er the business and coming very much under the wing quality public er public company clients , very large clients , great potention for us . |
| 14 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 15 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 16 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 17 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 18 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 19 | Lacuna 's pleasure in you provides great pleasure for us . |
| 20 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 21 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 22 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 23 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |
| 24 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 25 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 26 | Yeah I mean that might certainly give you some , you know , kind of you know regular attenders to er to , |
| 27 | Today we have over one million business accounts , from sole traders to the largest corporations , with the great majority of them receiving financial help from us in one form or another — from a simple overdraft to extremely complex arrangements . |
| 28 | This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first ! |
| 29 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 30 | To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay . |