Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 2 | It is even possible to conceive of holding your own in a conversation in which all you do is repeat aspects of what the other person has just said . |
| 3 | Following defeats like the final last season the Transvaal hierarchy have a reputation of blaming it all on a few players . |
| 4 | Whenever possible , I try and make a point of taking something special to a party . |
| 5 | The fences hold no fears for this big fellow and he has a marvellous chance according to his trainer of making it two in a row and thereby join a small but privileged group . |
| 6 | The success of a pilot standby scheme run for students at Teesside Plytechnic prompted the idea of making it available to a wider student audience , said theatre manager Lynn Hardman . |
| 7 | Manufacturers gain through having their product demonstrated , or even through having it present in a store ( or else they would be unwilling to pay ‘ slotting allowances ’ to supermarkets ) , so that demand is not exogenous to retailing . |
| 8 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't much care for finding myself topless in a strange boat with a strange man ! ’ she supplied succinctly , lifting her arms involuntarily to cover her breasts . |
| 10 | Oh , what a fool Fernando must have thought her for finding anything suspicious in a locked door . |
| 11 | Er we think it , er should be , you know drawn to the public 's attention , government 's attention that we can not tolerate within this county , this high level of unemployment that we 've got , and we 're gon na do our damndest as a County Council to do what we can I know there is in order to , to attack that particular problem . |
| 12 | And Donald 's gon na go and take away all those words and he 's gon na put them all into a dictionary all by himself . |
| 13 | This could be made slightly less astringent by mixing it 50/50 with a flower water or distilled water . |
| 14 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 15 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 16 | By making it possible for a vivid and urgent desire for power to exist alongside a consciousness of being the legitimate and predestined possessor of it , they kept the edge on the governing classes . |
| 17 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |
| 18 | Do n't warm wine by placing it next to a radiator or open fire , as this will cause it to taste coarse . |