Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
2 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
3 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
4 | Instead , gipsies will be encouraged to BUY land and apply for permission to turn it into a site . |
5 | The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden . |
6 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
7 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
8 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
9 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
10 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
11 | This by no means commits them to the view that actions and attitudes are uncaused , merely to the more limited view that they are not caused by the properties of social wholes . |
12 | But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table . |
13 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
14 | She felt like crying as dejection hit her like a ton of bricks . |
15 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
16 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
17 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
18 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
19 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
20 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
21 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
22 | This must of necessity put you in a very weak defensive position and I would maintain that this is responsible for losing more bouts than any other factor . |
23 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
24 | A final change of level takes us under the archway into the next small grassed and planted area , an altogether quieter space . |
25 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
26 | This view of physics sees it as a body of knowledge , or a system , which can explain all other bodies of knowledge . |
27 | I take his point about maintenance and I shall of course draw it to the Housing Executive 's attention . |
28 | This of course takes us into the domain of attitudes and feelings of the learners , and is an area more influenced by emotion . |
29 | This of course put me in the wrong . |
30 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |