Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the irony entailed in starving myself in order to survive was not altogether lost on me . |
| 2 | Insisting that the Platform was not fighting against the party but rather for its " democratic renewal aimed at adapting it to a multiparty system " , Shostakovsky called on Platform supporters to remain inside the CPSU until after the congress ( a view endorsed on April 12 by leading radical Boris Yeltsin ) , and criticized a call made by fellow Democratic Platform leader Igor Chubais on April 11 for Platform supporters to resign their CPSU membership immediately . |
| 3 | Some suggestions were instantly taken up , as in 1925 , when five members asked for shorter carries and the committee agreed to reducing them to 120 yards , and also a later suggestion for setting aside some ground for lessons and practice . |
| 4 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 5 | A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here . |
| 6 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 7 | And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom . |
| 8 | What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab ? |
| 9 | ‘ Me father dreamed of putting it to rights , ’ said Rory . |
| 10 | A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds . |
| 11 | But with his back to the wall , and with the octopus bent on destroying him through no fault of his own , his first , last and only duty was to his family . |
| 12 | However , the approach to such analysis will now be set out and the method illustrated by applying it to a trivial case for which the solution is already known from section 4.4 . |
| 13 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 14 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 15 | Meg waited until she heard the main bedroom door shut before going herself to the bathroom . |
| 16 | if they come for a win , itll be a win gained from getting us on the break . |
| 17 | In the one 's complement method , any pattern whose sign bit is one represents the negative of a number obtained by replacing one by zero and zero by one in each bit position . |
| 18 | However , a review which was triggered by a crisis of confidence over NHS funding ended by saying nothing about funding levels at all and leaving the method of funding through general taxation unchanged ( apart from the ideological blip of allowing tax relief on private health insurance for the over 65s ) . |
| 19 | It is very profitable to the place , as also in the number of shipping employed in bringing it to London ’ . |
| 20 | It was started as a response to the existing state education system in place under apartheid , in which ‘ black children were educated in a way geared to keeping them as a docile , compliant labour force ’ , according to a colleague of the School . |
| 21 | Stoicism , like Buddhism , calls for indifference to the material world and a fatalism based on freeing oneself from desires . |
| 22 | The fact that the efficiency of rivets was in no way improved by capping them with precious metal provides another indication of the limitations of material factors in accounting for technical innovation . |
| 23 | This has to be done before the end of the time allowed for laying them before the general meeting and if any of the documents is not in the English language a certified translation must be annexed . |