Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is true right down to the detail of how we use electronic mail , for example , in which , until we discover or are shown otherwise , we start from the assumption that this is a cheaper and more rapid method of writing the sort of letters we always wrote , and that those letters should have the same status , and be stored and referred to in the same way , as the written or typed ( and duplicated ) paper missive . |
2 | Yoga teaches that the metabolic responses in the body are the result of how we interpret outside experience . ’ |
3 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
4 | For once we had definite news that things were looking up , and it was the perfect antidote to the gruelling journey . |
5 | In addition to simply buying shorter spots , a growing number of advertisers are experimenting with how they use short spots . |
6 | Big brother was staying in Islington , making a living from TV comedy shows by being one of the twenty or so names that zip up the screen under where it says Additional Material By : , and trying to be a stand-up comic . |
7 | The growth of user-subcultures takes on enormous importance , and not only those associated with deviant youth groups : the British audience for American Country music , the Adult-Orientated Rock audience , successive rock 'n' roll revivals , swing band enthusiasts , and many others , would repay attention , for often they use mass-media products , perhaps radically shifting the original meanings . |
8 | Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time . |
9 | Elle-women are beautiful and alluring from the front , though from behind they sport hollow backs and cows ' tails . |
10 | From here we had immense views , northwards across Ras Kassa 's province of Salale towards the Blue Nile gorge , or southwards to the distant Arussi mountains . |
11 | For example , health visitors may influence young mothers in how they view processed baby food . |
12 | From there he made frequent visits to Jefferies ' Coate Farm and Reservoir , to well-off Townsend cousins in Clifton , and to the neighbouring Downs . |
13 | Until then he remains Prime Minister . |
14 | The other principal and active member was another lawyer , A.J. Wickens , K.C. , who owned an extensive collection of recordings at his Third Avenue N.W. home from whence he broadcast special programmes over the ‘ dinner hour ’ on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays . |
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16 | In May UNITA not only recaptured Mavinga but also switched the focus of its campaign to its military base in Béu in the north-west near the border with Zaïre , from where it received major airlifts of US supplies and equipment . |
17 | In winter it can often provide a pleasant ice-pitch , but in very wet weather the Rollick Stones ridge on the eastern side of the clough is preferable — from where you get fine views down to the cascades . |
18 | The outgoing Defence Minister , Gen. Le Duc Anh , had been promoted at the seventh CPV congress to second ranking member of the politburo , from where he controlled foreign policy . |
19 | The new law will become effective three months from when it receives royal assent . |
20 | In 1962 Piero Pieri addressed a Parisian audience on how he saw military history ‘ spilling over ’ into other aspects and specialisms of history , creating chain reactions which would bind them all together . |
21 | An anonymous respondent wrote perceptively that it ‘ depends on how you cost internal opportunity cost , etc . ’ . |
22 | To when they had young children , and a husband coming home from work . |
23 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
24 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
25 | I would suggest to you , in short , that erm just as Locke 's labour theory of property is a theory is not a comprehensive theory about what constitutes a legitimate claim to own something but is really a theory about how private property comes to be legitimately created erm so his theory of social contract is not a theory about how we acquire political obligations , it 's a theory about how legitimate civil societies come to be established . |
26 | Before planning your new lighting , you will want to think about how you use different rooms , and whether the lighting will have to cope with more than one use of a room ( often the case in sitting rooms ) . |
27 | The person who leaves the company 's employment er could I ask you , each of you in turn briefly for some comments about how you feel deferred pension rights can best be preserved , if they can be preserved at all er adequately . |
28 | It is true that everyone needs to eat to stay alive , but biological requirements of this sort are too ‘ basic ’ to have much explanatory power ; we do not so much wish to understand why societies produce food as why they produce different kinds of food in different ways . |
29 | On larger packets there is information about why we need certain nutrients |
30 | And talk to our friends about our purchasing techniques and explain to christian people about why we purchase certain things or do n't purchase certain things . |