Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 2 | We do not allow motor cyclists on to the roads without helmets , so why should we allow bowler-hatted men with batons to walk up the highways ? |
| 3 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 4 | Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ . |
| 5 | The success in 1991 of PRIME SUSPECT ( for Granada , and starring Helen Mirren ) again brought Lynda La Plante 's writing talent on to the screens of 17 million viewers . |
| 6 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 7 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 8 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 9 | In social dialectology we need to abstract from speaker-interaction and the social contexts of speech events as we observe them , to project the data on to the configurations of language systems ( recall Principle 1 ) . |
| 10 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 11 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 12 | Second , the political response to a rapid deterioration in the economy implies a greater probability of a coup d'état or a battening down of the hatches by the government . |
| 13 | The strip is easy to apply , simply put it white side down on the squares to be corrected and rub gently but firmly with a ball point pen on the back of the strip . |
| 14 | In the evenings we trundled a wheelbarrow down to the banks of the Dee and collected driftwood for the fire , because at 500 feet above sea-level , even after roasting days , when the sun went down it was cool enough to need it . |
| 15 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 16 | The first in a new generation of colours , it has been developed as a result of Armitage Shanks ' research in to the tastes of today 's consumers . |
| 17 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 18 | I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself . |
| 19 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 20 | A spokesman said that Mr Fontana had put his mandate back in the hands of the prime minister , Giuliano Amato . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 22 | Market reforms have revived a left-wing opposition out of the ashes of the outlawed Communist Party , says Roy Medvedev |
| 23 | McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed . |
| 24 | Airtours THE WORLD IN ITS LAP Rumours of a price war are unlikely to take the wind out of the sails of a tour operator that has not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but increased market share as well |
| 25 | His merciless tone brought a spark of uncertainty back into the eyes of the Prophet . |
| 26 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 27 | In an effort to keep weight out of the eyes of the yacht , the stemhead roller may be unshipped when not in use and stowed away further aft . |
| 28 | Have you any idea what it was like round here in those days ? — women and kids out in the fields till all hours , gleaning , stone-picking , hauling the wagons when they got bogged down . |
| 29 | Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor . |
| 30 | Now Parlour will get the chance to stake his claim after putting Arsenal back on the rails after their bad start to the season by making both goals in the 2-0 win at Liverpool on Sunday . |