Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 2 | The teacher working with this pupil tells how children would ‘ … exchange one mistake for another and incidentally change the syntax so that an appalling mess developed ’ ( Meek et al. , 1984:189 ) . |
| 3 | Think in terms of putting a one in front of that and then moving a decimal point two places and it 's one point four five . |
| 4 | If the government increases the money supply to increase the price level to engineer a fall in the real wage , actors can be expected to be fully aware of this and hence to adjust the nominal wage so that no real purchase on the economy can be obtained . |
| 5 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 6 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 7 | We must be aware of this and constantly compare the copy with the real thing to see if it is still valid . |
| 8 | Do social security systems provided by the state draw on all or only some of these and how does the mix differ between countries and with what effect ? |
| 9 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 10 | You will sometimes be asked to er look at something like that and then put the time signature in . |
| 11 | There was n't much point in pressing the bell so I fooled around with a small bunch of keys I keep for occasions like this and finally felt the tumblers turn in the lock . |
| 12 | Alongside this and particularly following the Exeter commission , Fowler also maintained his connection with his native county where he had a long-standing patron in William Courtenay , tenth Earl of Devon , his works including the Totnes bridge ( 1826–8 ) , a small group of churches , and alterations to the Earl of Devon 's Powderham Castle ( 1837–48 ) . |
| 13 | Today a car manufacturer might make engines in one country , steering wheels in another and then assemble the car in a third . |
| 14 | To make the most of your longhaul holiday , why not combine a stay in one resort with a stay in another and really get the best of both worlds ? |
| 15 | However , in instances whereby an originating office makes a request for assistance that would result in more than simply providing a favour' then a fee is appropriate and its level should be determined directly between the two offices concerned . |
| 16 | Base the idea and structure building on that and then increase the incidentals as you go along . |
| 17 | This passage sheds much light on the method of ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service ’ where the self-mutilation of ‘ enervate Origen ’ is placed in the same lineage as the sexual origin of ‘ the Word ’ , and where the initial ‘ sapient sutlers of the Lord ’ who ‘ Drift across the window-panes ’ is a passage with an ambiguous , or better ambivalent , reference , since it holds together in one term both the ‘ sable presbyters ’ who bring offerings to church and ‘ the bees ’ who bring pollen from one part of the plant to another and so perform the ‘ Blest office of the epicene ’ . |
| 18 | However , the overall distribution of ratings , the majority being very low numbers with the occasional higher one , might equally be seen as supporting the idea that subjects are generally feeling no risk at all but occasionally give a high number with the activation of the ‘ subjective risk monitor ’ ( Summala , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 20 | But what really bugs our Sharon is that they dare to show any football at all and thus interrupt the daily stream of soap sludge . |
| 21 | So there 's no scope to coast at all and not pick the strongest team . |
| 22 | I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip . |
| 23 | In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents . |
| 24 | Fokine wanted to make dance rhythm visible by more than just marking the beats . |