Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] and [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're looking for high fliers and even car firms can go bust the second year . |
| 2 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 3 | I mean , I 'm a fan of oily rags and maybe mildew . |
| 4 | Lawrence McGinty , late of these pages and now science 's man on Channel 4 's news programme — had the indignity of being the first to be ejected from the balloon . |
| 5 | Lyotard 's ( 1984 , pp. 60–1 ) aesthetics is an aesthetics of Freudian ‘ unconscious space ’ , which ( i ) permits condensation and other contradictions ; ( ii ) permits the mobility of cathectic energies and hence displacement ; and which ( iii ) severs temporality from rule-boundedness . |
| 6 | Literally it may be defined as ‘ the geography of living organisms ’ or since geography is traditionally the study of living things and particularly man in relation to the environment , the most accurate job description of the subject may be the ‘ geography of the biosphere ’ . ’ |
| 7 | The structuring of loyalties vertically in this way inhibits the development of horizontal bonds and thus class identity among the poor . |
| 8 | Her own children sometimes suffered from their faults being castigated in their mother 's books , for , though tender towards young children and deeply understanding of their need for security , she could be severe towards social failings , such as discontent and ill temper in their elder siblings . |
| 9 | The electric field of the radiation can interact with these charges and so radiation can be absorbed , as in common salt . |
| 10 | The time has surely come for local authorities , at least , to develop and implement ‘ whole authority ’ policies and procedures on a range of topics , which would certainly include children with special needs and also child abuse . |
| 11 | Piece by piece , a picture emerged of wrong-doing in high places and eventually congress and law enforcement agencies were obliged to take action . |
| 12 | Ufton went in for England 's third try in 49 minutes and then flanker Robert Leach touched down from a five-metre scrummage , Stimpson converting . |
| 13 | The grim harvest of these cuts was an increase in preventable diseases and hence child deaths — especially in Ghana . |
| 14 | The unrest stems from their demand for higher salaries and better working conditions and has brought the day-to-day operations at the ministry of finance to a virtual standstill . |
| 15 | I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] . |
| 16 | Forty years later , when viruses were better known and several people had attributed viral origins to some tumours and perhaps leukaemia , the paper was rediscovered . |
| 17 | A combination of lack of food and over-stocking can lead to poor conditions and sometimes death , particularly for the native ponies . |
| 18 | The Dwarfs continue to mine the vein for several years and even talk of resettling the old hold . |
| 19 | We observed a chemotactic response to MIP-1 β over a narrow range of cytokine concentrations ( Fig. 1 a ; and data not shown ) ; MIP-1 β has been reported to induce myeloid cell chemotaxis at higher concentrations and apparently T-cell chemotaxis . |
| 20 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |