Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old days , when Margaret Thatcher was still a chemist , and John Major was John Major-Ball , most MPs and many Ministers stayed away from the Party conferences , regarding it as a necessary vulgarity , an annual opportunity for the spear-carriers and party bit-players to travel to a seaside resort out of season to spend a few days in the proximity of the great . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that these various small-scale erosional processes require tens of Ma to overturn a few millimetres of dust . |
| 3 | At the beginning of a recording session , start by asking each speaker in turn to say a few words . |
| 4 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 5 | However , in order to understand the many ways in which context affects language processing we need to move away from a consideration of single-word recognition to a consideration of how sentences are processed . |
| 6 | In order to catch a few babies , trappers will frequently kill whole families and the orphan chimps often die in transit . |
| 7 | At leisure to explore the many sights , including the Grouse Mountain , English Bay , Chinatown and lovely Stanley Park . |