Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 2 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 3 | On the three-day , residential course held on December 4–6 at Pendle 's training centre in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales , you 'll learn preparation for returning to a changed work environment : Assertiveness Training , Personal Development plus two basic sales training sessions . |
| 4 | Well , at least you ca n't lose remission for escaping from a loony bin . ’ |
| 5 | In The Form the prose style shows Rolle at his best embodying his sense of " the expanding of love beyond desire " : The first sentence uses the inexpressibility topos — the rhetorical trick for gesturing towards the ineffable . |
| 6 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 7 | If this transpires to be the case for binding of the intact 140k protein during VZV infection , numerous possible functional implications of such a broad-ranging conformational effect can be envisaged , including modification of the interactions of transcription factors with DNA or with other proteins , or clearing the promoter of non-specific DNA binding proteins . |
| 8 | The most basic case for charging is the general case for pricing in a competitive economy ( Seldon , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | So I think there is a case for going for a fixed-rate . |
| 10 | Before 1099 he had made no difficulty about acting in a contrary sense . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 12 | At Purley on 4 March 1989 , five people were killed and 87 injured after a crash , and a BR internal inquiry blamed the train driver for going through a red light . |
| 13 | Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment . |
| 14 | There is always a trivial algorithm for searching in a finite space — just list all nodes , and examine them in turn . |
| 15 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 16 | The Richmond Fellowship , for example , provides hostels , run as small communities , which offer a secure environment and an opportunity to regain confidence in social relationships and an enthusiasm for living to a limited number of mentally disturbed adults and young people . |
| 17 | In December 1857 the new head of the Third Department , V. A. Dolgorukov , revealed an unlikely enthusiasm for cooperating with the liberal intelligentsia when he asked the Slavophile Aleksandr Koshelev to send him his hard-hitting " Memoranda on the Dissolution of the Enserfed Estate in Russia " . |
| 18 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 19 | I 've spared you the bit about sleeping with a famous broadcaster and writing in her magazine , The Libertine , that he was as ‘ good ’ as he boasted . |
| 20 | Indeed , they were no doubt very glad to have the reassurance of each other 's presence for travelling into an unknown future . |
| 21 | Green Realignment , a splinter group from the British Green Party , has held its inaugural conference , at which it was decided that the group would aim to steer a middle course between acting as a political party and as a pressure group . |
| 22 | It was during the Autumn term that certain staff had responsibility for contributing towards the self-appraisal report . |
| 23 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 24 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 25 | Future development of social work practice in this area seems probable , with a social worker having responsibility for relating to a particular Home and its residents . |
| 26 | For each of these zones it can provide : * population statistics ; * population by ACORN category ; * consumer expenditure potential ; * details of retail competition ; * a postcode index for matching to a postcoded customer file . |
| 27 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 28 | It 's sad , is n't it ? … that people 's heroes are just a bunch of pansies who get paid extortionate amounts of money for kicking in a poor ball who has n't done anyone any harm ! |
| 29 | But Welsh Local Government Minister Gwilym Jones told the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen yesterday : ‘ While we shall be listening very carefully , we see no case at present for departing from the main thrust of our proposals . |
| 30 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |