Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Homunculi do not allow anyone to see the oracle unless invited.The adventurers will need to keep their wits about them to get past these pests . |
| 2 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 3 | But if the police or the security services are perpetrating the illegal acts there may be little incentive for them to deal with such complaints seriously . |
| 4 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 5 | But we 've got a young side at Cardiff now and it 's good for them to play against these players , to see that they 're only human beings after all . ’ |
| 6 | The problem is that when a parent is feeling depressed or overwrought it is difficult for them to think of alternative strategies . |
| 7 | ‘ It would hardly be proper for them to speak to such women . |
| 8 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 9 | ‘ It is not easy for me to talk of such things to you , ’ he murmured , a trifle hesitantly . |
| 10 | It 's not very interesting for me to waffle for two hours . |
| 11 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 12 | ‘ For it to be successful , I would have thought some form of power at least to recommend smallish settlements would be a useful aspect … but I would n't envisage the ombudsman as someone dealing with huge claims . ’ |
| 13 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 14 | ‘ Hmm , ’ said Faye , after what seemed like several minutes . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're looking for somebody to blame for needless deaths , look no further than Sheldukher . ’ |
| 16 | The consultation comes after a night during which calls from well wishers flooded the hospital switchboard , said a spokesman . |
| 17 | ‘ So I compromised by redesigning the base as a set of flat plates with circular holes cut in them through which sets of moulded hemispheres could be pushed . |
| 18 | Certainly its thinking is complemented by a knowledge of the longer text which may be the reason for its appearing after both books of the Scale in the early printed editions . |
| 19 | He also pointed out the amendment in section 26 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( effective from 1 October 1992 ) reducing the maximum term of imprisonment for theft from ten to seven years , thereby distinguishing theft from obtaining by deception , the maximum term for which remains at ten years . |
| 20 | By devising an oral rehydration solution made from home ingredients , the problem of cost was ( partially at least ) solved , as was the problem of supplying pre-packaged Oral Rehydration Salts to a population 92% of whom lived in rural areas where transportation was generally very poor . |
| 21 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 22 | Among the guests were thousands of plain-clothes police and out-of-uniform soldiers , some of whom arrived in military trucks , dressed as clowns . |
| 23 | The AAPA 's membership covers 1,100 individuals who are authorised as auditors by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under the Companies Act 1967 , most of whom work as sole practitioners . |
| 24 | Many women are in employment but women also make up 60 per cent of Britain 's six million carers , many of whom look after elderly relatives . |
| 25 | Euphronios as painter worked with at least two ‘ potters ’ , Kachrylion and Euxitheos ( whose name appears on the vase fig. 89 ) both of whom worked with other painters . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's really not professional of me to comment on these things . |
| 27 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 28 | This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years , and all three of them use in various forms the version prepared by Shostakovich on the basis of Pavel Lamm 's edition . |
| 29 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 30 | Most of them come with explanatory booklets detailing the words and commands the computer understands , and include a description of each cave or room that Samson might enter . |