Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , pluralism has for some become something of an Aunt Sally , to be knocked down through juxtaposing the idealised equal distribution of power assumed in pluralist theory with the actual inequalities in the distribution of power found in Western liberal democracies . |
| 2 | Pat found herself wondering whether to return to Purley , but decided after all to establish herself in the South West and spread the Medau message by taking up teaching again after her rather brief retirement . |
| 3 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 4 | Frankly , none of that interests me in the slightest . |
| 5 | For example in one school we asked the head of French to show us on the shelves the books she had ordered under the project . |
| 6 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 7 | Paper circulates today in vast quantities , and you need only to retrieve some of this to provide yourself with an adequate body of notes at no cost at all . |
| 8 | All accounts of Six describe him as a competent yet modest and unassuming man of great integrity , and a devout Christian . |
| 9 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 10 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 11 | Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track . |
| 12 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 13 | A reconsideration of these moves us onto a more analytical plane , and points the way forward to discussion in subsequent chapters . |
| 14 | Others , more cynical , practised ‘ chameleonism ’ and declared themselves Republicans in the hope of taming the Republic ; most of these attached themselves to the Radical Party , helping to turn it into , in effect , the conservative party of the Republic and increase its already considerable reputation for political and financial corruption . |
| 15 | Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier . |
| 16 | Still , three guides out of three made it to the col between the two summits , and two out of three to the summit itself , while only one client out of 15 was present . |
| 17 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 18 | He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games . |
| 19 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 20 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 21 | The dynamic campaign then waged under his command during the late summer of 1936 drew him into the spotlight as Nationalist Spain 's most successful general . |
| 22 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 23 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 24 | Pa talking like this reminds me of the witch in the Snow White video : ‘ Cymbeline 's bought you strawberries and ice cream m for tea , ’ it says . |
| 25 | As it is , I 'm saving like mad to have something in the kitty when next rent day comes round . |
| 26 | Having completed his research , it remained for Kaplan to illustrate it with a performance . |
| 27 | I agreed with Gyggle , only by entering the dreamscape , the hypercast of my hotted-up mind , could I hope to resolve this paradox and once and for all free myself from the malevolent force which I felt had shaped my life . |
| 28 | Mention of sport for all reminds me of the tremendous debt owed for the volunteers of our sport . |
| 29 | But it was too late , or perhaps I forced the confession out of myself , determined once and for all to rid myself of the burden of this secret . |
| 30 | But most one-roomed flats or studio apartments are box-like spaces with little to commend them in the way of interesting detail or character . |