Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 G.J. Warnock , a distinguished post-war philosopher , offers a strange analysis of seeing which allows no place for judgement nor even the capability of it , as was the case with our driver , and which would include both the dog and the infant .
2 No-one in the United States Rugby Union had a clue about coverage and neither the union nor the magazine was ever sent a press release .
3 With no onward chain involved the property is ideal for investment or equally a family home .
4 His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him .
5 This may be true in the rise of European nationalism , although the need for a uniform language arises also because of the competition between States and therefore the drive to establish single national markets .
6 She had to bathe them in very hot water every night for months and fortunately the accident left no permanent damage .
7 She rested after lunch and then a taxi took her up to Hampstead and a shop that sold a certain kind of ethnic clothes not available elsewhere .
8 In the latest incidents , an antiques dealer was attacked at Keele services on the M Six shortly after midnight and yesterday a woman driving along a quite country road in Chepstow had her car rammed by a gang wielding baseball bats .
9 Twenty minutes was the time allocated for lunch and then the afternoon was taken up with being fitted with a uniform .
10 In Fig. 5.2 the shift in the demand curve from to ’ shows a reduction in the demand for bills and simultaneously an increase in the demand for liquidity .
11 Any of these could be used as rollers but only the circle has a constant centre , permitting a hub .
12 Callers of any sort were scarce at Four Winds , mostly people who came asking for directions or even a glass of water when the weather was hot .
13 A service between midnight and 0700 should be the responsibility of family health services authorities , which could arrange for visits and perhaps a night time surgery .
14 Thus , in the Maya world-view there was no sense of progress but only a blending of past , present , and future , which all tended to become one .
15 Recognising the inherent flexibility of microelectronics-based technologies it seeks to influence not only the rate of change but also the choice and design of new technology and associated systems of working .
16 They are introduced for a variety of reasons but often the aim is the laudable one of protecting the public against physical harm or deception .
17 Scheilenberg waited , desperate for a cigarette , but aware also of how totally Himmler disapproved of smoking and then the door opened and Rossman appeared with another man .
18 In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction .
19 Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile .
20 Also , step back from engagement , never forward ; an exciting bout generates a great deal of noise and sometimes the opponent does n't hear the referee 's call to stop the bout .
21 However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes .
22 Erm if you wish to proceed with this proposal , I would suggest perhaps that erm it is n't uncertainty of responsibility but perhaps the extent of responsibilities and powers of the various agencies which need to be clarified and I , it is , it is pro probably that area which erm will be addressed by er th the analysis which takes place erm after the immediate problems are behind us er but certainly the implications for the Strategic Planning Committee erm and for , perhaps for local planning or something which erm the Chief Officers could be asked to report back to this Committee .
23 Anyway , I sat there for a couple of minutes and then the cab came . ’
24 You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 .
25 If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day .
26 I 'm not afraid of money but occasionally a writer wants to write something for love and for pleasure
27 Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed .
28 The opening of the Springfield Works not only marked a change of base but also a change of direction for the company .
29 You do n't want a bit of sedimentation and then a gap when nothing was being laid down and then a bit more being sedimented , because , you know , you do n't know then whether the jumps you see in the record are simply there because there was a gap in deposition , or whether they really reflect the sudden change in the population .
30 In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties .
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