Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am pleased to tell the House that Cambridgeshire health authority and the Ministry of Defence have agreed in principle that the health authority should buy the RAF hospital at Ely . |
| 2 | ‘ Put simply , Derek , ’ Trevor replied , ‘ the production costs of marioc have risen in excess of the price the Martians can afford . |
| 3 | A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel . |
| 4 | Figure 5.1 shows how these forms of provision have changed over time . |
| 5 | Most theories of rhythm have concentrated on metre and metricality , and while it has long been recognised that the rhythms of the spoken language give variety to what occurs within a given metre , the functioning of these rhythms in poetry has never been adequately investigated . |
| 6 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | In the last decade , various strands of research have led to re-examination of the role of metaphor in language , and to the suggestion that it is a tool for thought . |
| 8 | We have developed a most successful Urban Design Initiative where students from schools of architecture have participated with practitioners in developing imaginative approaches to exploring the potential of vacant urban sites . |
| 9 | What images of homosexuality have appeared on television ? |
| 10 | From the mill and sliphouse , through to the decorating department , experts in their own field of work have worked with others from different companies to establish the craft standards for the ceramic industry . |
| 11 | By contrast , Richard Smith and David Thomson have argued , on the basis of long-term demographic evidence , that forms of retirement have existed throughout history and ( particularly if one excludes the high birth-rate nineteenth century ) that there have been many periods in which a simple dependency ratio of the elderly to the non-elderly population has been high . |
| 12 | That may involve shipping it across borders , to countries where controls are more relaxed , which is why efforts to control international movements of waste have increased in step with the tightening of disposal standards . |
| 13 | Jacob pointed to an elaborate fountain a hundred yards ahead of them in the middle of the road , the distance making the play of water seem frozen in midjet . |
| 14 | However , most cases of acne do improve with time , so once you 've found a suitable preparation , stay with it until nature finally cures the problem . |
| 15 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |
| 16 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 17 | All art and all the finest achievements of mankind have sprung from emotion . |
| 18 | As Tumin ( 1953 , p. 389 ) points out , the very reverse is so : ‘ Smoothly working and stable systems of stratification tend to build in obstacles to the further exploitation of the range of available talent . ’ |
| 19 | Recent advances in the biology of reproduction have resulted in methods and techniques which can overcome both problems . |
| 20 | In the various studies of Zambian leadership two schools of thought have emerged concerning President Kenneth Kaunda . |
| 21 | The study explores the priority Heads of Government have attached to publicity , and their attitudes to official secrecy and leaks as well as to the political accountability of news media . |
| 22 | Or are we seeing an indication that some inner processes of preparation for loss at this time of life have come into play ? |
| 23 | It 's beginning to help us to understand multiple sclerosis , and there are a number of hormonal or endocrine diseases , such as thyrotoxicosis , underactive thyroid disease , juvenile onset diabetes , rheumatoid arthritis , which are all immunological disorders and erm in which the advances of immunology have contributed to understanding . |
| 24 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 25 | Smoking , drinking and spicy food all contribute to halitosis , but the biggest cause is build-up of plaque on teeth and gums , especially when fibres of food get trapped between teeth . |
| 26 | The freedoms of childhood include flirting with father and attempting to seduce mother in the safe knowledge that this is play and it will not get out of hand . |
| 27 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |
| 28 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |
| 29 | However , problems of measurement have led to underestimation of improvements in service-sector productivity expressed most recently in the drive towards self-service restaurants and petrol stations , and automated cash dispensers at banks . |
| 30 | The major lines of objection have come from Quine 's pragmatism and Kuhn 's work on paradigms , and it is to these that we now turn . |