Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Sorry about that whingeing on at the end of the last letter . |
2 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
3 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
4 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
5 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
6 | A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . |
7 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
8 | And that 'll get the inside of that sorted out for a wee while again young William . |
9 | But did any of that come out at the inquest ? |
10 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
11 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
12 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
13 | All of this added up to an ‘ inaccessible market ’ . |
14 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
15 | Occasional evidence of this percolates through into the newspapers and , now and again , the law reports . |
16 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
17 | Although all of this adds up to a fairly persuasive case in favour of certain types of co-operative R&D in certain circumstances , the case is not strong enough to suggest that all types of ventures will have positive ( or even benign ) effects on social welfare . |
18 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
19 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
20 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
21 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
22 | In the absence of much to shout about on the score sheet , Leeds fans reverted to taking the mick out of Arse fans ' feeble singing by doing antiphonal ‘ red army , red army ’ chanting in high-pitched silly voices . |
23 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
24 | Most of these refer back to the content of the video but repeat viewing is not suggested . |
25 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
26 | Pale , cold , clammy , yes , this is the opposite , you 've got all the signs and symptoms here of a stroke , now if , this could go on with and erm if somebody , if something is n't done very quickly with this compression the person has still got this bleed , or clot in the head and eventually they just kind of all come up into the foetus position , literally all goes spastic , all these spastic movements right , you finished writing ? |
27 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |
28 | Tessa first of all sat down on the edge of the bed , with her knees together , her feet crossed and slightly to one side , her back straight , and her cup and saucer at chest height , as she had learnt in Social Situation Training . |
29 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
30 | Scunthorpe survived largely because Futcher thought he was offside when he was n't and Deary was when he should n't have been — his 81st-minute goal being disallowed to the despair of the home fans and the delight of those setting off across the black hills . |