Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 2 | Work in this area might usefully go on as part of a larger , more focused programme . |
| 3 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 4 | Samuel strongly advised that MacDonald should be persuaded to stay on as head of the existing government or some " reconstituted " Labour Cabinet or , failing these alternatives , of a National government made up of members of the three parties ; the necessary but unpalatable economies affecting the working class could best be imposed by a Labour government . |
| 5 | After a few seconds of awkward introductions , Zohra excused herself with a promise to be down for cocoa at the usual time , then led Harry upstairs . |
| 6 | At the end of one particularly difficult morning surgery , she sat down for coffee with a long sigh of relief . |
| 7 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've said I 'll stand in as coach for the under-fifteens . |
| 9 | President : Abdur Rahman Biswas , formerly Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad , was elected by its members in October 1991 to replace Acting President Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been sworn in as head of a transitional Council of Advisers in December 1990 [ see pp. 37907 ; 38152 ; 38533 ] . |
| 10 | Col. Elias Tutsoane Ramaema was reported by Radio Lesotho on May 2 to have been sworn in as Chairman of the ruling Military Council , following the overthrow of Maj.-Gen. |
| 11 | It was only fair that Neil Kinnock should be allowed to relinquish his post quickly , although the possibility of Roy Hattersley stepping in as deputy for a few months was ruled out too early . |
| 12 | Walesa was sworn in as President for a five-year term on Dec. 22 . |
| 13 | Surjit Singh Barnala , Chief Minister of Punjab between 1985 and 1987 , was sworn in as Governor of the southern state of Tamil Nadu on May 24 . |
| 14 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 15 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |
| 16 | MICHAEL LAWRENCE , GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR , PRUDENTIAL CORPORATION The man from the Pru rings in the changes Last month , Hugh Collum stood down as chairman of the 100 Group after a successful two-year campaign raising its profile . |
| 17 | How to get the plan called in for consideration at a public inquiry , since there is every likelihood Dyfed County Council and possibly CCW would be prepared to negotiate a compromise , based on past performance . |
| 18 | WE still get cars in for service from the 1950 's and 1960's . |
| 19 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
| 20 | Some of these types who went in for murder as a professional thing would probably take you to the cleaners as soon as look at you . |
| 21 | But I come here to address you , in all humility , because I am very interested in the subject of your conference ; and with the vanity of an old man I would like to take part , not as an outsider addressing budding scientists — a bit of ‘ general studies ’ thrown in for relaxation between the serious business — but as a fellow enquirer into the workings of the brain . |
| 22 | I climbed into my sleeping bag and slipped from one dreamworld into another , waking a few hours later to drift down through birdsong in the cool forest to the jarring heat and bustle of Aviemore . |
| 23 | As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record . |
| 24 | Two had been voted out of their top party positions by their district branches and the other two stepped down after pressure from the Central Committee . |
| 25 | The lines remain constant almost as if in defiance at the narrowing down of life in the actual theme or to provide a strong medium for the subject of the weakness of old age . |
| 26 | With the slowing down of inflation in the mid-late 1970s , the ratio of direct to indirect taxes in total revenue began to fall . |
| 27 | His paunch flapped up and down like jelly in a windy picnic , and his Adam 's apple did a jig in sympathy . |
| 28 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 29 | To be serious , there will inevitably be those who go down with flu in the last week before the race , and those with lower leg pain which is genuinely becoming worse day by day , rather than better . |
| 30 | This I washed down with lager from a great stein as monumentally carved as the Parthenon . |