Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 2 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 3 | What I would n't give for Jim to do something like this — just occasionally . |
| 4 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 5 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 6 | That small part of the Doctor 's character that allowed for scepticism reminded him of all the times such naivety had landed him in trouble before . |
| 7 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 8 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 9 | Honeymoon cystitis , with its descriptive and emotive label , is badly named , because it by no means restricts itself to married couples on honeymoon , whatever small proportion of such couples , these days , wait until their honeymoon for their first sexual experience together . |
| 10 | But Beethoven constructed page after page using nothing but this rhythmic motif . |
| 11 | However , when the researchers reached the shop floor they discovered that robots were far too expensive for management to waste them on unskilled jobs . |
| 12 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 13 | Sir John Ure , commissioner general of the British pavilion , is also confident that Expo will succeed , but injects a note of caution : ‘ It 's a very tall order for Spain to mount something like this . |
| 14 | The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories . |
| 15 | Nor need the scenery always be dramatic : the languid countryside of Norfolk lends itself to exploratory trips with Albion Rides ( Tel : 0603 87125 ) . |
| 16 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 17 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 18 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 19 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 20 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 21 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 22 | You see , for me a good game of football involves lots of intricate passing . |
| 23 | Genius of Picasso to recall us to this , with his combinations of life-class drawing , cubism , collage , lettering , etc . |
| 24 | In the wild , even modern breeds of hens form themselves into small social groups comprising one cockerel and perhaps four or five hens . |
| 25 | A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point . |
| 26 | He released a hundred quintols of amyl to remind him of that . |
| 27 | THE ISLE OF Ely , transformed into a notorious offshore tax haven , nevertheless houses an unequalled variety of shops selling everything from local crafts to electronics and consumer goods , all duty free . |
| 28 | In 1974 23% of teenagers described themselves as daily smokers . |
| 29 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 30 | The clarity of light throws everything into sharp relief against a backdrop of clear blue sky . |