Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 2 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 3 | Time series such as that shown in the second column of figure 9.1 are displayed by plotting them against time , as shown in figure 9.2 . |
| 4 | Thanks er , did the provision for er , properties like Penguin and four and a half million for the year , did all of that come in the second half , because it 's noticeable that Penguin is ahead something like what , thirty two percent , second half on second half . |
| 5 | The downturn was most marked with wines from the Beaujolais and Burgundy regions and with champagne — shipments of this declined by a third last year . |
| 6 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 7 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 8 | Several kinds of difference figure in contemporary cultural theory but two especially : sexual difference ( deriving usually though not invariably from psychoanalysis ) and cultural difference , with each of these complicated by a third kind of difference which construes meaning and identity in terms of difference or , more exactly , differential relations . |
| 9 | Many of these continued into the twentieth century . |
| 10 | Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis . |
| 11 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 12 | However , Najibullah , a member of the PDPA Parcham ( " Banner " ) faction , was apparently forced to release many of those apprehended in the second round of arrests after Lt.-Gen. |
| 13 | Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less . |
| 14 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 15 | There is now overwhelming evidence that outcome for people with schizophrenia in Western industrialized countries is markedly inferior to that of those living in the Third World . |
| 16 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 17 | A closer examination of the figures shows that of those founded during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , excluding those of the guilds and fraternities , one-fifth were perpetual . |
| 18 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 19 | After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s . |
| 20 | I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it . |
| 21 | C. Across most of Devon and Cornwall the landforms are like those shown in the last of the three diagrams on the next page . |
| 22 | The development of exploitation also leads to the formation of ideas , concepts , values , and institutions , but these , unlike those produced by the first process , are geared to operating exploitation , and involve giving the appearance of legitimacy to exploitation , as well as hiding its true nature from the exploited . |
| 23 | They competed for the Henderson Young Show-Jumpers Award , with many overcome in the first round , including Points Table winner Andrew Davies . |
| 24 | The global left ventricular ejection fraction and rapid ST segment resolution did not differ significantly between those treated in the first 2 hours and those treated later . |
| 25 | Similarly , the Commission does not incorporate in the proposed Directive reciprocity requirements , such as those found in the Second Banking Directive , in relation to bids from offerors in non-EC countries . |
| 26 | The judge in the later case finds some relevant fact in that case of sufficient importance to justify a different approach from that adopted in the first decision . |
| 27 | In order to distinguish the conditioned response ( CR ) of the test stage from that acquired in the first stage of discrimination training , the nature of the reinforcer was changed , from appetitive to aversive . |
| 28 | An adaptation to Labov 's methods rather differently motivated from those discussed in the last three sections may be found in Paul Kerswill 's recent work in Durham City ( 1987 ) . |
| 29 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 30 | The age distribution of known opioid users was similar to that found in the first survey , with 69 per cent being aged between 16 and 24 years ( compared to 75 per cent in 1984–5 ) . |