Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would note that many languages have , in addition to the three basic sentence-types mentioned above , others that appear to be similarly circumscribed in use : exclamatives that are used paradigmatically to express surprise , imprecatives to curse , optatives to express a wish , and so on ( again , see Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 2 | It is thus not clear that these accident estimates are particularly stable assessments of the objective danger at the junction ; they are likely to be strongly determined by risk ratings . |
| 3 | Their results indicate that bargaining structure is systematically related to product and labour market considerations and that high concentration and large plant size are found to be strongly associated with single-firm , as opposed to multi-firm , agreements . |
| 4 | William Morton Pitt of Kingston Maurwood , MP for Dorset and a relative of the two famous Prime Ministers ‘ impressed with the beauty of the situation of Swanwich and the salubrity of its climate , and finding the shore of smooth fine sand to be admirably adapted for sea bathing , first conceived the idea of raising it to the condition of a watering place ’ . |
| 5 | These exceptions are important and consideration should be given to inserting them in trust documents although this seems to be rarely done in practice . |
| 6 | Judging by American experience , there is no doubt that , as annual percentage rates come to be widely quoted in conformity with the new Consumer Credit Act regulations , people will become more familiar with them . |
| 7 | CUP has Tasks for Language Teachers by Martin Parrot of International House in London , and this , although expensive at £13.95 , promises to be widely used on teacher training courses . |
| 8 | When documents first began to be widely used in history teaching , local documents were often cited as a local illustration of the national theme . |
| 9 | Despite such problems , particularly in attempts to define specific neuropsychological correlates to all its forms , the concept of arousal , or activation , continues to be widely used in psychology ( e.g. K. J. Anderson , 1990 ; Revelle & D. A. Loftus , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | We want to guide the Bill through all its stages and for it to be properly scrutinised in Committee . |
| 11 | It is important for the organ to be properly covered by insurance , but making it available to students costs little and is again an investment for the future . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) Solicitors shall ensure that every office where they or their firms practise is and can reasonably be seen to be properly supervised in accordance with the following minimum standards : |
| 13 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |
| 14 | Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed . |
| 15 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 16 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 17 | He told himself that it was ridiculous for him to be nearly trembling with fear , wondering what form her explosion would take . |
| 18 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 19 | Dynamic displays such as this make sites and finds more comprehensible , and are likely to be increasingly used at excavation sites and within museums in the future . |
| 20 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 21 | Charles and James would find that , despite the publicized openness of the modern Conservative Party , the lower middle class still tends to be restricted to the lower political positions ; even at a local level , power continues to be unevenly distributed in favour of the upper middle class ( Butler and Pinto-Duschinsky , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |
| 23 | Fascism had to be temporarily embraced in order ultimately to be defeated . |
| 24 | For example , facilities like swimming pools , water sports , chair lifts etc. require maintenance and sometimes have to be temporarily withdrawn from use for such work to be done . |
| 25 | Hospitals were to be wholly funded from taxation , provided by statutory bodies — Regional Hospital Boards — and managed by hospital management committees , with nominated members . |
| 26 | And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate . |
| 27 | On the other hand you will be able to be much more objective and not allow yourself to be unduly influenced by personality when the fundamental qualifications and expertise are missing . |
| 28 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 29 | It still needs to be evaluated in other terms to be effectively mediated into practice . |
| 30 | In Italy , out of over two hundred listed companies , only seven have 50% of their shares in public hands and five are understood to be effectively controlled by family groupings . |