Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |
2 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
3 | I derived a great deal of amusement out of this because he got so carried away , huffing and puffing , and once he unleashed a mighty kick with ‘ Take that , you bastard ’ , sadly forgetting that he was still chained at the time . |
4 | For example , manufacturing industry in the UK was severely hit by the real appreciation of sterling up to mid 1980 . |
5 | A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition . |
6 | But as he was passing it across he paused halfway , holding the precious piece of paper up by three fingers . |
7 | I saw this piece of rock back in 1986 when I went to America with Gerald Costello for the NCMD to help set up the World Council for Metal Detecting . |
8 | It was a resounding narcotics sensation that first threatened the film industry with obliteration back in 1920 when the handsome Wallace Reid , a public idol created by The Birth of a Nation , ran afoul of federal authorities . ’ |
9 | One way of attempting this was to stuff the mouth with rice along with precious substances consonant with the rank of the deceased . |
10 | Canalization involves the direction of attention on to particular objects — in this case toys of the domestic kind : miniature washing machines , cookers , dustpan and brush sets , and so forth . |
11 | Prosodic components should be regarded as part of intonation along with sequential components . |
12 | Taking that level of security down to individual data items , what what areas of my chartered account can I update what areas can I look at ? |
13 | ‘ It was a varied , highly satisfying climb , ’ says Walsh , ‘ with quite a bit of ice up to 55 degrees ; VS standard rock , albeit with old fixed ropes , and some tiring plodding through knee-deep powder . ’ |
14 | " Is that a fact ? " said Manciple , and the sergeant said , " You 'll maybe be getting a bit of money out of this series , then ? " |
15 | there does n't seem to be any sense to it really but you can try and make a bit of sense out of some of it not all of it but some of it you can make a bit of sense out of it yes . |
16 | Mr Chairman , this , in actual fact , I can put a little bit of light on to this , I mean , having had two of my children , erm , attended this , Air Training Corps . |
17 | We also have in the area a tremendous number of new houses which have never been contacted by us or for by any political party and I would hope that we might be able to do er something about the area behind the church there is er an area that comes to mind which could well be fruitful , and I would hope that we might during this year get er some kind of literature out to these places apart from election literature . |
18 | ‘ We did manage to achieve Dalek eye contact with our actors by devising a kind of iris round for one of the cameras which gave you a point-of-view shot from the Dalek . |
19 | The rise of unemployment up to 1986 raises many questions about the distribution of income in society , which we shall consider in the final part of this chapter . |
20 | In our description of intonation up to this point , the only pitch contrasts found in the tone-unit are the different possible choices of tone for the tonic syllable . |
21 | branching to one course of action out of two possibilities depending upon the result of a mathematical , textual or logical condition |
22 | The bill is being paid by the Ministry of Defence out of public funds , and lawyers say the amount spent on the case contrasts with new guidelines introduced by the Lord Chancellor to reduce costs for legal aid . |
23 | Some sceptics also felt that community care was in such a mess that it would be quite convenient for the government to transfer future blame for failure on to local councils . |
24 | A former consumer editor of Time Out for six years , more recently she co-produced a series of documentaries on British business culture for the BBC . |
25 | There are more than 200 stockbroking firms eager to take on private clients , ranging from the independent , old-fashioned type of broker through to some of the larger international firms or subsidiaries of the clearing banks . |
26 | The NRA , which traditionally wielded a degree of influence out of all proportion to its 2,600,000 members , as usual forcefully combated the bill . |
27 | Other important contributions to the fall in mortality up to 1900 arise from the decline in typhoid and typhus fevers ( 22 per cent of the total mortality reduction ) , scarlet fever ( 19 per cent ) , diarrhoea , dysentery , and cholera ( 8 per cent ) ( McKeown and Record 1962 ) . |
28 | Tony Gauci talked through the progression of an engine from receipt through to strapping on to Larry 's former bus . |
29 | In late 1917 , proclaiming Labour 's new commitment to ‘ the democratic control of industry [ through ] the common ownership of the means of production ’ , Arthur Henderson pledged the Party to ‘ strenuously resist every proposal to hand back to private capitalists the great industries and services that have come under Government control during the war … we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . ’ |
30 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |