Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focusing device of this chapter will be the role of metaphor in the novels as a strategy for bringing specialized discourses to bear on the consciousness of the fictional character and for ‘ mobilizing ’ the discourses themselves . |
| 2 | There was after all nothing remarkable about seeing two men kiss in that way at that time of the night . |
| 3 | It seems that other young men came to stay too — I suppose it must have been a very welcome extra source of income — and I understand that Great-Grandmother Tallentire was criticized for allowing young men to stay in the house when she had daughters . |
| 4 | The Stock Exchange 's damning report was sent to the Bank of England and to the Department of Trade 's Licensing Unit , which had responsibility for allowing financial groups to stay in operation . |
| 5 | And he 's promised to look again at the case for allowing British Rail to bid for franchises . |
| 6 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |
| 7 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 8 | Attlee chided them for ignoring any notion of what the country could afford in suggesting armed forces levels , and for suggesting that cutting spending on the armed forces to £700 million would virtually immobilize them . |
| 9 | The planning and arrangements for handling any emergency depend upon an accurate and rapid evaluation of any accident and its progression , and hence on sufficient accurate radiation monitoring on and off site , the speedy collection and analysis of data , and good communications , together with arrangements for the assembly and accurate briefing of representatives of the media . |
| 10 | The EC is all kinds of things , good and bad , but it is above all a machine for producing proposed regulations embodied in documents . |
| 11 | Orion Advanced Chemical Technologies , part of Ferruzzi-Montedison , and the University of California 's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory are to cooperate in the development of a new process for producing raw materials used by the petrochemical industry from natural gas . |
| 12 | During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions . |
| 13 | To a point , the onus for acquiring these skills depends on the self-discipline and initiative of the trainees themselves . |
| 14 | These users would be responsible for checking any SSRs generated for their project and only submitting them once they were satisfied that they correctly and adequately reported the status of an area of software . |
| 15 | Each user should be made responsible for checking any SSRs generated for their project and should only submit an SSR once they are satisfied that it correctly and adequately reports the status of an area of software . |
| 16 | Some of the responsibility for resolving these complications falls on the shoulders of the law 's chief sponsor , Ben Nighthorse Campbell , a northern Cheyenne Jeweller from Colorado and the only Indian member of the United States Congress . |
| 17 | It may be , on the other hand , that profit maximisation within the law is too limited a formula for aligning corporate decision making with the public good . |
| 18 | 8 ) , ever since the end of the eighteenth century most of the movements of social criticism have been based upon a theory of society ; and on the other side , every major social theory which attempts to provide a new intellectual framework for understanding political life embodies at the same time a particular orientation to the important political issues of the age , whether in the form of Marx 's allegiance to the working-class movement , Max Weber 's identification with the German bourgeoisie and nationalism , or Durkheim 's commitment to the ideas of the Third Republic in France . |
| 19 | In the Zambian capital of Lusaka , hundreds of people are facing possible radiation sickness after eating tinned beef contaminated in the Chernobyl nuclear accident . |
| 20 | Zurich : Shares closed steady after recovering early losses caused by rising interest rates . |
| 21 | Sir Richard Knowles , leader of the Labour-run council , spoke out after announcing savage cuts aimed at meeting the £879.1 million spending target . |
| 22 | By daybreak each nest , an untidy blotch against an opalescent sky , had its clangorous pair , old partners together once more after leading separate lives foraging with the jackdaws on the coastal fields since autumn . |
| 23 | Or the military cross awarded him by Montgomery after displaying great bravery advancing under heavy enemy fire |
| 24 | He once ran a marathon for training , but only after running 15 miles to get to the start and ‘ warm up ’ . |
| 25 | The American is Donny Odom , 24 , who has competed in his country 's national championships twice after spending four seasons maturing on tracks in southern California . |
| 26 | After spending all morning talking to clients on the telephone , in place of lunch I nipped up to the golf club and played a few holes with one of the assistants . |
| 27 | She gained her Queen 's Award after spending two years working on several community projects including talking to young people about drug abuse and helping with conservation . |
| 28 | Edwards won the NorthEast 100 metres title in 1990 and is likely to start as favourite after spending two months training in Fountain Valley , California , with John Regis , Roger Black , Kriss Akabussi and Marcus Adam . |
| 29 | This was the main message behind a worse than expected slump in interim pre-tax profits from £30.9m to £16.2m and the likelihood of a full year pre-tax loss , after incurring exceptional costs estimated at a cool £50m , to £55m . |
| 30 | On Dec. 31 , 91 people died in Bombay after drinking poisoned liquor bought at a government-licensed liquor store . |