Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outset Headline has considered WHS to be the centre of its market , though the fast growing non-fiction list with such successes as Raymond Blanc 's Cooking for Friends has greatly strengthened its sales through chains such as Waterstones and Dillons , and the mass market paperbacks are benefiting from the increased sales of paperbacks generally in supermarkets . |
| 2 | This establishes a framework for agencies to work together to protect children from abuse . |
| 3 | This result was never thereafter challenged : there were no protests or riots in the streets or general mayhem as there would have been , and God knows has been , in that other Celtic country across the water whose struggle for independence has never ceased . |
| 4 | Building this genetic algorithm for code-breaking has certainly left me in no doubt that evolution is quite capable of performing miracles in no time at all . |
| 5 | Privatisation threatens if the Tories return to power ; their new-found enthusiasm for rail has still to find clear expression in funding priorities ; and commuter grousing continues unabated . |
| 6 | ‘ Public support for Sarah has now vanished . |
| 7 | 5 : Also , the French government 's Directorate for Safety has just expressed grave concern at the recent discovery of radioactive leaks in 50pc of the steel-nickel domes of its PWRs . |
| 8 | In general , practical support between relatives seems highly gendered , with women much more involved than men . |
| 9 | At Grand Central , New York , the Vanderbilt search for opulence had even outrun the French Empire style of the first Grand Central with its great conventional train-shed behind . |
| 10 | And the sores which have plagued his mouth for months have now disappeared . |
| 11 | The tying of aid for imports has seriously weakened the policy of standardizing equipment . |
| 12 | The London Borough of Hammersmith has previously rejected inspired schemes by at least two of Britain 's most interesting architects . |
| 13 | ‘ The export of plutonium has therefore benefited the UK defence programme , ’ conceded the junior minister . |
| 14 | Now that oil is the main fuel for ships and other transport , the export of coal has almost ended but it was the reason for the early growth of Cardiff and for the long ribbons of terraced houses in the valleys of the coalfield . |
| 15 | Nippon Electric of Japan has recently opened a £50 million semiconductor factory in Livingston that will , by 1985 , when the plant is operating at full stretch , employ only 800 people . |
| 16 | The public perception of Amnesty has also changed and this has not happened by accident . |
| 17 | So far as the type of crime committed is concerned throughout this century the great bulk of crime has always involved stealing of one kind or another . |
| 18 | But soon the consciousness of security became so ingrained that we lost all temptation to enquire about the nature of work with which we were not immediately concerned . |
| 19 | A leading French economist believes that the defeat of communism has merely presented capitalism with a new crisis . |
| 20 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 21 | In the past few weeks plain English drafting and the typography of statutes have again become the subject of public comment in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | The mention of Seville had only aroused a small murmur of protest in her left ventricle , and that was an improvement on a few months back when open heart surgery had seemed the only cure for her suffering . |
| 23 | Any mention of radiocarbon dating necessarily involves at least a reference to dendrochronology , and the basic principles of this powerful technique are therefore also outlined ( see p.125 ) . |
| 24 | Whereas loss of signal in coaxial cable makes runs of over one kilometre disproportionately expensive , because of the need to amplify signals on the way , the low loss of fibres makes long runs cheap ; but fibres need conversion hardware at each end . |
| 25 | The threatened loss of cash has already led the centre to issue redundancy notices to six of its staff . |
| 26 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 27 | The crowded church was silent for a few seconds at these words no citizen of Decin had ever heard before . |
| 28 | Each day starts with a programme of group exercises carefully planned to help the children to change position , starting from lying or sitting followed by individual and group standing and walking practice . |
| 29 | This programme of research has already brought to light unnoticed phenomena of children 's different abilities to communicate in the classroom . |
| 30 | Anderson 's study of Preston has also emphasized the amount of movement that took place within the town . |