Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
2 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
3 | Among the many things we hear in that oracular phrase is , against the odds , a bitterly won conception of language as rescue . |
4 | Sir John Pope Hennessy , an Irish adventurer , successfully claimed immunity from arrest for the recovery of the huge debts he accumulated while the Member for King 's County in the 1860s . |
5 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
6 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
7 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
8 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
9 | Wilson ( 1991 ) argues that in reality most old people can live well and independently with properly targeted inputs of help at times of crisis or illness . |
10 | Yet if not all of them necessarily regarded Cnut with disfavour on his accession , it is likely that there were quarters in which he had to face considerable initial hostility . |
11 | But it is important to be able to classify the different types of mechanically propelled vehicles in order to be able to prove to a court in which class a vehicle falls . |
12 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
13 | In future Castle will only make provision for amortisation of audio copyrights for permanent diminution in value . |
14 | Would you please be good enough to arrange signature on behalf of Three Vee Ltd ? |
15 | Idealism , and the quest for action , drove him to change regiments and branches of the service , and so lose chances of promotion beyond the rank of subaltern . |
16 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
17 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
18 | Sometimes this is built-in to the carpet in the form of a heavy foam backing which only needs layers of newspaper underneath it . |
19 | Joint finance has been provided since 1976 to enable local authorities and health authorities , as well as voluntary organizations , to work together to provide facilities for care in the community for different groups , including both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
20 | p/b £15.95 Paperback reprint of David Watkin 's highly esteemed history of architecture from Knossos to Quinlan Terry . |
21 | However , the bishop of Worcester normally paid £10 , while at Feckenham the fee was given as no less than £14. 16s. 10½d. , but this perhaps included services in connexion with the forest administration . |
22 | Such ‘ advertorials ’ blur the distinction between editorial content and advertising and so shift control over content to the advertisers and away from news organizations . |
23 | Splitting frequencies — transmitting different programmes on FM and AM — could effectively double listening hours and provides two highly targeted audiences for advertising in a catchment area . |
24 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
25 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
26 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
27 | We have a responsibility not only to provide businesses with access to information , but also with structures that enable them to talk to each other and to trade with the residential community ; and , |
28 | The Bantu Mirror , established in 1936 , circulated in both Rhodesias , using African languages , but employed no African reporters : it merely used translations of news from Argus papers . |
29 | The clash they made on the stones below jarred Harry from head to heels , and for a moment shook the intensity of his concentration . |
30 | Private hire cars can only carry passengers in response to requests by phone . |