Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 2 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 3 | Matthews entered the game at 3–4 as Colchester went to a one-setter system . |
| 4 | Prime Minister Bufi spoke at a rally for Baker attended by a jubilant crowd packing Skanderbeg Square . |
| 5 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 6 | Companies such as Caterham come under the second tier and have to comply with national approval rules based on EC legislation . |
| 7 | This will disgorge the stored information twice a day , at alternate intervals of 10 and 14 hours , as IRAS passes over the operational control centre at Chilton in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | This holds even though much of the money for welfare programmes such as AFDC comes from the Federal exchequer ; the larger the average payment , above a Federally-prescribed minimum , the larger the proportion of it which has to be met from State revenues , so that generous State governments are taxing their own residents in order to support their generosity ( see Tresch , 1975 ) . |
| 9 | He had first reported to Donleavy on the use of counterfeit money for DEA stings during the 1987 season , after Dany Habib had produced a sample from his desk drawer , but it was soon clear from what he observed at Eurame that this , too , had become standard operating procedure in his absence . |
| 10 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 11 | The Law Reform ( Limitation of Actions ) Act 1954 for Scotland provided in the relevant section : |
| 12 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 13 | The treatment was as diverse as the geographical distribution , from the simple four-part settings of the complete Psalter in Polish by Mikolaj Gomolka ( Cracow , 1580 ) , employing tunes drawn from plainsong , Protestant song , and the popular music of Eastern Europe generally , to the astonishing collection of settings of Marot-Bèze published by the Dutch master Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( 15621621 ) in four books ( Amsterdam , 1604 , 1613 , 1614 , and Haarlem , 1621 ) . |
| 14 | FIG. 1 Mortality , size distribution and maturation of Nephila clavipes in a rich habitat ( Panama , Cerro Galera Hill Road ) . |
| 15 | So you get the impression here of Lincoln talking about an unusual crisis situation in a letter to one of his mates in eighteen sixty four Lincoln goes on Lincoln goes on to , in his letter to a friend to deny that civil war was fought to , to free the slaves er as a moral crusade , he wants no part of that argument . |
| 16 | Instead , the naked corpse of Hauser lay on a central table , the chest cavity spread open , and several organs glistening purply on gleaming dishes to either side . |
| 17 | A new technique of ‘ direct action ’ , with Bertrand Russell 's blessing though not as yet his participation , began in December 1958 , with a march through the muddy fields of Norfolk leading to the obscure American rocket base at Swaffham . |
| 18 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 20 | The Carmel Woods case helps highlight the enormous difficulty of challenging the validity of IDO claims under the 1991 Act and also helps keep the spotlight on the legacy of old minerals permissions which planning authorities are powerless to tackle under the 1981 Act . |
| 21 | But once upon a time the ad pages of NME throbbed with the heady thrills of Loon pants ! |
| 22 | When solving the up- or down-problem at node k in preceding sections , we first modified the original tableau of LPk to allow for the new or changed , upper or lower bound . |
| 23 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 24 | In June he dismissed a letter from President Havel of Czechoslovakia protesting at the human rights situation in Cuba as " ignorant of our country 's problems " . |
| 25 | Table 2 offers a comparison of Grampian exports with the equivalent totals for Scotland as a whole . |
| 26 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 27 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 28 | May 1945 , the final capitulation of Germany occurred with an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces . |
| 29 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 30 | As in the case of Bacon , the central importance of Paracelsus rests on the general impetus he gave to the reform of science and on the development of a comprehensive religious and ethical framework for scientific and medical endeavour . |