Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything around us makes us enthusiastic about knitting again after the lazy outdoor days of summer . |
| 2 | WORLD 500cc motorcycle champion Wayne Rainey is critical in hospital after crashing badly in the Italian Grand Prix at Misano . |
| 3 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | After driving strongly in the top six , he fell victim to what he later described as ‘ Formula Ford driving ’ by Jean Alesi in the Ferrari F92A . |
| 5 | The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed . |
| 6 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 7 | ‘ The first thing I want is a bath , ’ said Kenichi Horie after coming ashore on the southern island of Okinawa . |
| 8 | In 1911 , after playing professionally for the Southern League side Leyton , he was bought by Sunderland for £1,200 . |
| 9 | Andrew Blaikie , 17 , on right , an aviation enthusiast , has a lot to grin about , and a double reason for looking forward to the coming year , writes ALAN DRON . |
| 10 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 11 | Despite drawing often on the New Testament , Ralph Waldo Trine says there is a ‘ golden thread ’ running through all the great religions . |
| 12 | This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits . |
| 13 | Ways of retreat from this point are various and there is even a metal ring — I hesitate to say bolt — to facilitate an abseil. the able can reverse the climbs on the pinnacle 's short side and the crazy always have the option of hobbling away with a sprained ankle after ‘ successfully ’ negotiating Cook 's Leap , the jump across the gully to the main edge ! |
| 14 | Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies . |
| 15 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 16 | To quote the Federation 's annual report for 1948–49 , ‘ one purpose of the Federation ’ is ‘ that of bringing together in a friendly atmosphere the members of different Branches and Groups and thereby strengthening the unity and spirit of the WEA in Essex ’ . |
| 17 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 18 | TODAY is all in favour of pressing ahead with the great public works which will give jobs in the construction , building and engineering industries , all of which have been badly hit by the recession . |
| 19 | We 've , we 've kind of shied away from the whole thing about image and about fat |
| 20 | The lucky recipient of an Indian cadetship had at least the prospect of returning home as a wealthy senior officer , assuming of course that he survived the very real hazards of life in the East . |
| 21 | Excitement for many at the thought of returning home after the long hard years in exile . |
| 22 | As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . |
| 23 | There was little debate on the clause but what little there was displayed a lack of understanding both about the legal significance of Morgan and its implications for women . |
| 24 | Instead of reverting automatically to the universal European scholarly tongue of Latin , they were gaining a new confidence in the language of their own people . |
| 25 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 26 | Debate centred particularly on proposals that the WEU should intensify its links with the European Communities ( EC ) , instead of acting primarily as the co-ordinating body for the European element of the NATO alliance . |
| 27 | His practice of writing exclusively in a distinctive green ink was continued by his successors . |
| 28 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 29 | The compelling need to experiment with alternative solutions in order to resolve the dilemma of his personal predicament had as its counterpart a light-hearted , seemingly casual participation in role-playing and disguise , techniques of escaping temporarily from an oppressive situation . |
| 30 | Moreover , attractiveness must be defined in terms of looking ahead at the likely state of the industry over the usual sort of investment time horizon for that industry . |