Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are fictions about experimenting with an impecunious and occasionally feckless life of adventure , and then giving it up . |
| 2 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 3 | A visit to a country house for instance will probably include reference to some of the social groups and classes of the period under study ( upstairs/downstairs , the estate workers , the craft or factory workers who produced many of the goods seen in the house ) ; the role of the gentry as leaders and rulers of their society can be covered ; there will be ample scope for looking at the economic and technological aspects of life in the period , especially if the house is related to its setting and the surrounding estate and countryside that supported it ; finally there will be objects or rooms in the house which relate to cultural or religious life in the period . |
| 4 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 5 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |
| 6 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 7 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 8 | To take on the responsibility of looking after a frightened and disorientated family of five , who speak not a single word of English , would be an overwhelming chore for the most seasoned carer . |
| 9 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 10 | Notice that talk of caring about the weakest and most vulnerable first may already , even when expressed so generally , have important implications for any consideration of the allocation of scarce technological resources to the care , for example , of neonates . |
| 11 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 12 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 13 | As different strata of the educated public became conscious of belonging to a substantial and articulate body of opinion , ‘ society 's ’ self-confidence grew . |
| 14 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 15 | There has to be a rhythm between the small group where specialized catechesis can take place , and the large group where the sense of belonging in a broad and powerful manner can be experienced . |
| 16 | It 's also wise to be aware of the differences of buying as an individual and buying as a business . |
| 17 | Nylon does have an exasperating trait of expanding in the wet and cold , causing the fly to sag . |
| 18 | Are you still sort of staying at the same or |
| 19 | The cost of staying in a residential or nursing home varies . |
| 20 | where there is a screenful of records at a specific classification code , there should be a means of skipping to the next or previous codes ; |
| 21 | WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Prince Charles ‘ is incapable of distinguishing between the good and the bad , only between what looks old and what looks new … ’ |
| 22 | But the status frustrations of moving from an interesting and professionalized work-world into the world of the housewife stand out most clearly in the interview with Juliet Warren , an ex-television production assistant . |
| 23 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |
| 24 | Everyone has some way of coming into a cognitive and very deeply associational relationship with clothing — perhaps we should bring that to painting and sculpture ’ , says Richard Martin , the newly appointed curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( that 's the way he tends to talk ) . |
| 25 | Pipe a line of icing along the lower and centre edges of the ‘ card ’ ( left ) and ‘ card ’ ( right ) . |
| 26 | This was entirely the wrong way to make policy and a cavalier way of dealing with a popular and effective service . |
| 27 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 28 | Stated baldly , and cheerfully ignoring the Secretary of State s admonition not to impute guilt to either Meehan or Waddell , his conclusions were that while Waddell and McGuinness probably carried out what he called the initial assault , ‘ it can not be disproved that Meehan and Griffiths were not a follow-up team with the role of dealing with the safe or safes believed to be in the bungalow ’ . |
| 29 | Another feature of past episodes of warming in the eastern and equatorial Pacific has been the occurrence of droughts in the southern part of Africa and in north east South America , and once again the present event shows no deviation from the pattern . |
| 30 | First we must begin to recognise that a very real division is incorporated into the existing structure of housing between the public and private sectors , where the public sector is increasingly just a residual back-up for single-parent families , minority and ethnic groups . |