Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some gun dealers have stopped selling replicas , because they 're worried about them falling into the wrong hands . |
| 2 | The way I think of the band is kind of like puzzle pieces ; to me the secret of an effective arrangement is not for everyone to push towards the same kind of sound , but for everyone to play something that 's contrasting but interlocking , so that when you listen to the song , all the pieces fall into place around each other . |
| 3 | In many households it is conventional for everyone to retire at the same time , and to re-emerge simultaneously in the morning , with scant toleration being shown to individuals who do not conform . |
| 4 | Some birds are so small that twigs are too coarse a material for them to use as the main fabric of their nest . |
| 5 | This , however , makes it impossible for them to feed during the larval stage , as free-swimming tadpoles can do , so they have to nourish themselves with specially large quantities of yolk . |
| 6 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 7 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 8 | 1.13 Our fundamental assumption is that all pupils are entitled to an education that will provide the opportunity for them to develop to the best of their abilities a competence in and appreciation of English . |
| 9 | Obviously , it is easier for them to develop in the Second Division rather than the First Division . ’ |
| 10 | The general postulates of each theory have , however , much in common : the contrasts between them depend on the phylogenetic features brought to the varying ecological conditions of life in which the animals live . |
| 11 | A group apart , the links between them welded by the sheer weight of society pressing down upon them . |
| 12 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 13 | Mrs Reed arranged for me to leave on the nineteenth of January . |
| 14 | This present trip represents , after all , a rare opportunity for me to savour to the full the many splendours of the English countryside , and I know I shall greatly regret it later if I allow myself to become unduly diverted . |
| 15 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 16 | He is too useful for me to discard at the present time . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 18 | We are currently in discussion with the TECs about their budget and I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances of my hon. Friend 's local TEC . |
| 19 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 20 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 21 | The humid heat of the New Guinea forest had probably proven too much for someone used to the dank climate of south Wales , they reassured Joan . |
| 22 | ‘ It is impossible for someone to marry into the Royal Family and have separate but equal status . |
| 23 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 24 | After what happened to the poor idiot , Donny , at Sallins , just two miles down the road , an Arbuthnot would n't be a trouble to their consciences . |
| 25 | Someone must have had a word with the band about their playing after the last tour and subsequent departure from east west Records because this show as a 200pc better affair . |
| 26 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 27 | ‘ All women possess not the Amazonian spirit of a Wolstonecraft [ sic ] ; but , indeed , unremitted oppression is sometimes a sufficient apology for their throwing off the gentle garb of a female . ’ |
| 28 | By designating such materials as in varying degrees precious they have created symbols of excellence , a quality which stems from aesthetic awareness but the striving for which lies at the very root of the civilizations created by man . |
| 29 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 30 | Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy . |