Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 2 | Then , after rubbing themselves dry on the bath robe , they dressed and climbed the cliff again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You have not only derived from it the means of raising your subterranean wealth , but those also of rendering it available to the public . ’ |
| 5 | Why not view that skinhead ideology from a new perspective , for I think it brings us closer to understanding what motivates their hate instead of pumping us full of the old clichés about how inhuman they are … |
| 6 | This is largely a matter of forming the habit of noting the wind from smoke or some other indication and of orientating yourself relative to the sun or an obvious feature such as a coast line , i.e. remember something along the lines of ‘ Into wind is into sun ’ , or say to yourself , ‘ I must land with the sun over my left shoulder ’ , etc . |
| 7 | In this letter , he briefly recorded Rufus 's harassments of the lands and knights of Canterbury , his overturning of all good customs , and the absolute impossibility which he himself had found of doing anything useful for the Church , concluding with this plea : |
| 8 | Whenever possible , I try and make a point of taking something special to a party . |
| 9 | This was realistic about the difficulties of achieving anything substantial within the conservative and sectarian environment of Derry . |
| 10 | Review consists of making yourself familiar with the section of knowledge concerned , by rereading notes and books , by exercises ( particularly if the work is numerical or mathematical ) and by oral discussion and written comment . |
| 11 | What is needed as far as language teachers are concerned is some way of making them aware of the problem as it relates to their professional work and of providing the means whereby they might arrive at interpretations appropriate to themselves . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Raymond 's family could n't quite come to terms with eating something sweet at the start of a meal , ’ said Ilsa , laughing . |
| 14 | The language helper is the expert on his/her language do not rebuke him/her for saying something different from the day before — there must be a reason ( if you were right in your observation ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 17 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 18 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 19 | In making them available under the terms of an existing contract , we made it clear that we would be concerned about early delivery to Argentina . ’ |
| 20 | Will he now seek the urgent help of the President of the United States in making it clear to the new Government in Turkey that the west expects a positive and constructive contribution to the United Nations peace process from now on ? |
| 21 | In welcoming everyone present to the celebration , the Bishop stressed that ‘ patience had its own reward ’ , as the people of Hemlington has waited over 14 years for their own centre . |
| 22 | Young people look forward to co-operation , and aspire to building something good for the future . |
| 23 | Her new position made her nervous but she kept breathing deeply to conquer it , and looked forward to proving herself worthy of the promotion . |
| 24 | Sexy underwear 's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter . |
| 25 | Concentrate instead on getting everything ready for the big day . |
| 26 | Now there 's a word that covers that and that the the choice of words based on on getting it right for the audience particularly in terms of jargon is what is called wordsmith . |
| 27 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
| 28 | Norman Fowler who , as is customary , devoted the first part of his reply to saying something nice about the speakers ( ‘ Amaranth Wilikins does not need me to gild her lily . |
| 29 | This was the first device to show quantitatively that at least a straight magnetic field system could contain a hot , high-pressure hydrogen plasma without having it diffuse across the magnetic field too rapidly . |
| 30 | They have to understand and provide for change in gendered subjects , without assuming anything absolute about the nature of the subjects ' gendering . |