Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italians are getting jumpy after drawing against the Swiss in Cagliari . |
| 2 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 3 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 4 | With a string of achievements already to his credit , including the development of such diverse destinations as Dallan in China and Rostov-on-Don in Russia , the former chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board hopes to see Derry move forward as a ‘ unified community capable of competing with the best in Europe ’ . |
| 5 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
| 6 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 7 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
| 8 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 9 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 10 | No longer you have to grovel through the woods each spring in hopes of stumbling across a few of these delectable fungi . |
| 11 | Let us apply the principle of moving from the general/simple to the specialist/complex to a specific example : |
| 12 | October already had been action-packed , with a talk by local historian Bert Starkey — ‘ The main thrust for good in Victorian Runcorn came from Methodism ; there were 18 chapels within one square mile , ’ — and a brilliant display of dancing by the over-forties at the dinner/dance . |
| 13 | However , despite these controls and a general reduction in the proportion of local-government expenditure emanating from central government ( down from over 60 per cent of spending in the 1970s to well under 50 per cent in the following decade ) the Conservative governments elected in 1983 and 1987 decided to continue the process . |
| 14 | We first came across this South Sea adventurer on the fourth week of cruising around the Caribbean on our Hallberg Rassy 352 , writes Jenny Allan . |
| 15 | We have a number of ways of dealing with the elderly in Western societies . |
| 16 | While smaller churches may be able to count every week , this may prove impractical for large churches , especially with more than one exit , without some fairly elaborate means of arriving at a total for each service . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the NME offices at this time were dominated by sad , prematurely middle-aged post-modernist bores , sneering at anything enthusiastic of smacking of the political in pop . |
| 18 | Alex Ferguson , United 's manager , regards Robson 's presence in four of his team 's remaining six League matches as a realistic target and the captain is confident of playing in the first of them , at home to Southampton on Thursday . |
| 19 | Rainoldes seems to have imagined adult male sexuality not just as anarchic , but as satanically polymorphous , capable of engaging in the forbidden with alarming ease . |
| 20 | ‘ I disapprove of killing at the best of times , Ace , but , and this is vitally important , you must never kill anyone with a role in recorded history if you can possibly avoid it . |
| 21 | The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral . |
| 22 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 23 | The opportunities provided in the clinical area for teaching on a one to one or small group basis should enable the teacher to be aware of at least some of these differences in her students , and to make some provision for them in her teaching . |
| 24 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 25 | With regard to the last of these , the sphere of circulation is that part of the social formation in which exchange takes place , through the buying and selling of all commodities ( including labour power ) . |
| 26 | Her other interests include classical music , the care of the elderly and the handicapped particularly with British Polio Fellowship and helping with riding for the disabled at the Diamond Riding Centre , Carshalton . |
| 27 | His eyes suddenly narrowed as he looked at her , and there was a silence charged with meaning between the two of them . |
| 28 | This is where I performed my gravity-defying experiments with the wind before returning to the cliff-top in the company of a couple of other walkers who , like me , were thoroughly enjoying these extraordinary conditions . |
| 29 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 30 | A fine early impression of ‘ The Resurrection ’ after Pieter Brueghel the Elder ( lot 3 , est. £24,000–30,000 ) was keenly contested by Ray Lewis , David Tunick and Helmut Rumbler before selling to the latter for £60,000 ( $90,600 ) . |