Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPC is the marginal private cost of films and reflects what the resources could earn for producers if they were employed in the meals industry . |
| 2 | We are committed to using the resources available to the health service to treat the maximum number of patients and to offer them the highest possible quality of health care . |
| 3 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 4 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 5 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 6 | Dr Merson called for national programmes to make AIDS prevention ‘ truly sensitive ’ to the needs of women and give them a greater say in the programmes . |
| 7 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |
| 8 | car hirers were not ‘ trafficking in litigation ’ where they agreed with potential plaintiffs whose cars were damaged in motor accidents and under repair , to supply them with free replacement vehicles provided the plaintiffs co-operated with the hirers in prosecuting claims against defendants and paid them the hiring charges from the damages they received . |
| 9 | There is , however , an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image , a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933 : ‘ … some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress ‘ a la Mexicana ’ , but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' |
| 10 | They do have an extra point of initiative instead , which puts them on a par with Men and gives them an advantage over Dwarfs . |
| 11 | ‘ Bob was very helpful when he played under men and gave me a lot of helpful advice , especially after Middlesex had scored 120 for 0 against use before lunch on my first day in charge ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 13 | This program is a must for anyone using a PC at home and will impress dinner guests who always say ‘ You simply must let me have a copy of the recipe , the meal was delicious ’ , you can now print it out in seconds and sell them a copy . |
| 14 | As chairman of the IAPS in 1908 , and again in 1921 , he made an inspired plea for a wider cultivation of a liberal humanism by all teachers of youth , actively encouraging originality in boys and affording them every opportunity to discover and develop their own interest and genius . |
| 15 | This means that , having discussed the problems with you , he should make you aware of the consequences of a continuing failure to live up to expectations and give you an opportunity to demonstrate an improvement . |
| 16 | It was in Los Angeles in 1914 that some bright car owner first started running up the main street , picking up passengers waiting for trams and charging them a ‘ jitney ’ — 5 cents . |