Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this include both the design of the projects — ranging from the crops selected to the land to which people have moved — and the quality of their management . |
| 2 | The descriptions of the author 's visits from one bureaucrat after another take up the bulk of No Breathing Room . |
| 3 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 4 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 5 | Three Emperors had been murdered ( one was , in addition , first blinded with a hot needle ) ; the mother of one ruler was strangled and the father of another forced off a precipice on his elephant . |
| 6 | Only about 30 warships out of 300 carried out an order to hoist the Russian flag on Wednesday before it was repealed yesterday . |
| 7 | The demonstrations at the end of 1985 brought about a degree of response , although the authorities did not address the main issues raised by the students . |
| 8 | The poor state of the wall required it to be rebuilt and the people of Pennal took advantage of this to tidy up the churchyard and to turn it into a ‘ heritage garden ’ . |
| 9 | All of this costs just a fiver . |
| 10 | In Russia a proposal of 1802 to set up an institute which would offer an elaborate course extending over eight years to prepare young men for a diplomatic career led nowhere . |
| 11 | A chilling smell of antiseptic hung on the air . |
| 12 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 13 | Sadly the most vicious of these brought down the rig on ‘ Strictly Business ’ on only the second outing for this interesting-looking Castro newcomer now owned by Nigel Musto ( RCYC ) . |
| 14 | Half of these gave up the drug ( British Medical Journal . |
| 15 | This valve is generally situated under a small metal cover — in towns , it is possible to see a whole row of these stretching down the pavement ; in rural areas , it may be more difficult to find . |
| 16 | A BOY of three picked up a terrorist car bomb in the street — and innocently took it home to show his mum and grandma . |
| 17 | By s. 259 of a private Act of Parliament of 1836 setting up the railway line , it was provided that , if a line should be abandoned , the lands acquired for the track should vest in the owners for the time being of the adjoining lands . |
| 18 | The reforms of 1833 affected only the structure of the courts , not the law which they administered . |
| 19 | The first small groups to be provided with pensions were the lower-paid naval warrant officers in 1672 , and soon afterwards customs officers ; while an Act of 1749 set up a scheme for master merchant mariners . |
| 20 | He was educated at Wix 's Lane School , Battersea , leaving at the age of fourteen to take up an apprenticeship to a firm of fur dealers for three years . |
| 21 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 22 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
| 23 | The programme first of all explains how a Bouncer works on fitness in general and in rehabilitation plus other problems such as arthritis . |
| 24 | It is the one most commonly used in stage hypnotism , and the fact that it is beyond the reach of many explains why the stage hypnotist ends up by working with about ten people out of as many as sixty volunteers . |
| 25 | The Education Act of 1902 brought about the establishment of secondary schools with 25 per cent of places going as scholarships to children who had passed an exam at the elementary schools . |
| 26 | Not only was the functioning of the library committee curtailed by industrial action — as it was in every school studied but the many attitudinal and motivational effects of the reorganisation of secondary schooling in the area as a whole must have been significant in shaping the perspectives and actions of those taking up the project challenge . |
| 27 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 28 | ( Most of those lie off the minute sheikdom of Brunei and are the personal property of the Sultan , who is in consequence the world 's richest man . |
| 29 | It may also make little sense for the social services to sever the birth links of say a ten or eleven year old , when the law gives that child the right on reaching the age of eighteen to seek out the birth parents and relatives . |
| 30 | The faint waft of the regiment of unwashed drifted down the carriage as he carried on his harangue , vouchsafing the information that his wife had divorced him , not the other way round . |