Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thinking about that now brought a scowl to her features , till Candy waved a hand in front of her eyes .
2 In praising the Nun 's Priest , however , he is limited to a motif of sexual worth that inescapably recalls the fabliau : which is what he had imagined of the Monk ( VII : 1945 ) .
3 Do n't arrive late — for that alone repays the price of admission .
4 When the Department of Industry announced its " Microcomputers in schools " , scheme in 1980 , it seemed to Provide an opportunity for Promoting the use of the microcomputer in school libraries and through that further to promote the school library .
5 Nevertheless , the period after 1979 undoubtedly saw a proliferation of inner-city projects .
6 But the island that in the prohibition years after 1920 profitably ran the rum trade is well placed for bootlegging cocaine .
7 In consequence , royal borrowing after 1574 largely took the form of interest-free ‘ forced loans ’ .
8 Our teams maybe away … but make sure you 're at home at just after five tomorrow to watch the action on Goals Extra …
9 The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems .
10 Also , in parallel with the United States , the influence of public policy seems to have been an additional factor of some importance since it has been observed that the policy of the occupying powers after 1947 probably strengthened the tendency to form enterprise-based unions rather than alternative structures for bargaining purposes ( Levine , 1981 ) .
11 The total so far for 1991 already surpasses the figure for all of 1990 .
12 While the kinetic approach embodied in the WLF equation and the equilibrium treatment of the G-D theory have both been successful in their way , the one-sided aspect of each probably masks the fact that they are not entirely incompatible with one another .
13 Expression of Bcl-2 completely inhibits the onset of apoptosis in serum-deprived Rat-1 cells after c-Myc activation , as shown in Fig. 2 .
14 It introduced an attempt to assess the truth of the often reiterated statement that the Great Barbarian Conspiracy of 367 virtually destroyed the villa system in Britain .
15 cos that really was flying you know , that was , no , it was none of this fucking press a button and let the , just a computer do it , you 're a computer technician , you 're a pilot now , but this fucking Eddy , Eddy the , yeah real , there 's , there 's quite a few reputable
16 The Private Practice and Professional Fees Committee of the BMA agrees that none of this adequately explains the rise in my premium and it has expressed astonishment at the figures I have provided .
17 From the darkness of the interior of this well came the smell of burned refuse and decaying meat and the stench of urine .
18 In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine .
19 He played in six series against England and only in the last , in 1963 , did he fail with the bat ; other big scores included 191 not out , again at Nottingham , carrying his bat to help save the third Test of 1957 , and 197 not out at Barbados in the first match of 1959–60 again to ensure a draw after a big England innings .
20 The New Forest Act of 1877 accordingly represented a change of policy .
21 The definition of papal infallibility ( even in its rather restrained terms ) and of papal supremacy over the Church by the Council of 1870 merely formalized the pinnacle of a far larger system , theoretical and institutional , of monarchy .
22 The first of these probably had a scleritome similar to halkieriids , with at least one shell and two types of sclerite .
23 Eleven potions are spoiled , and drinking any of these just gives a character stomach pains for D6x10 Turns .
24 Divergent political objectives notwithstanding , the obvious goodwill between Ho and the Americans , the limited but successful training teams that they provided for Vietminh guerrillas , and the obvious sympathy which many Americans — in particular , it seems the OSS — had for the cause of Vietnamese independence , not to mention corresponding doubts of the French title to Vietnam , all of these understandably encouraged the Vietminh in their political objective of the accomplished fact .
25 Six concluded that screening should take place , yet none of these seriously considered the requirement for screening to benefit those screened .
26 The best of these often give a sense of both the science and the doing of science .
27 However , many of these now prefer the term ‘ independent schools ’ , as in the title of the Independent Schools Information Service ( ISIS ) .
28 Approximately 12 per cent out of the total population of 32,000,000 currently drew a pension , and the increase in the miminum benefit represented an estimated cost to the treasury of $1,200 million per year .
29 The decree of 1274 henceforth banned the holding of two or more cures of souls simultaneously except where a papal licence to do so had been obtained .
30 ( 3 ) The Act of 1976 expressly recognised the possibility that under the pre-existing law ‘ a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ’ see section 4(5) .
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