Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 2 | It was n't even the sight of Alf Roberts in Coronation Street collapsing with a suspected heart attack after eating too much Christmas pudding . |
| 3 | THE fun-loving niece of tycoon Lord Hanson plunged to her death after knocking back SEVENTEEN tequila slammer cocktails costing just £8.50 . |
| 4 | Wilkes was escorted from the pitch by police after sending off teenage winger Barkus who lashed out after being felled as he went for goal . |
| 5 | A braindamaged man who lives with his mother near the top of the tenement comes in at eleven o'clock , after sweeping out Seventh Street Pizza . |
| 6 | These were the kids ‘ educated ’ to memorise reams of context-less information in preparation for filling in multiple choice school entrance exams . |
| 7 | The knowledge of a critic is useful here for filling in relevant background information . |
| 8 | My answer to that would be that er since the only permissible reason for pushing out this inset boundary would be a need for expansion , expansion involves built development , and built development would not seem to be within er the possibility of er Policy E N V One as well as within the possibility of er other policies |
| 9 | In large part this is a reflection of the underdeveloped state of industrial relations theory itself to whose improvement , by way of helping more general theory construction , well-designed comparative studies may be expected to contribute . |
| 10 | Teacher research is seen as a powerful means of bringing about effective curriculum development and promoting children 's learning . |
| 11 | We can not suppose , however , that discrimination training is quite without effect — to do so would eliminate any possibility of explaining why acquired distinctiveness training should be superior to acquired equivalence training in producing differentiation . |
| 12 | The erosion was anticipated because of Sparcstation 10 Model 41 shortages and the cost of ramping up new product production . |
| 13 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 14 | This discussion has focused mainly on postoperative analgesia , but the question of providing more general pain relief , particularly for ventilated infants , must also be considered . |
| 15 | This is also in conjunction with GCR Board policy of having all major restoration work concentrated in one area . |
| 16 | MINISTERS HAVE failed to find a way of fending off Conservative Party conference pressure for extra funds to ease the introduction of the poll tax , it emerged yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ Nuts are full of goodness , but they make you fat , and there was a bloke once died of drinking too much carrot juice . ’ |
| 18 | Under consideration are transactions entered into in the course of carrying on unauthorised investment business . |
| 19 | In the course of carrying on this investment business Pantell S.A. distributed a series of advertisements in order to persuade persons in the United Kingdom to purchase shares in European American Corporation Inc. , a company incorporated in Utah , U.S.A. ( ‘ Euramco ’ ) . |
| 20 | They are the spearhead of the Imperial army , capable of shattering almost any enemy line under the right circumstances . |
| 21 | Tines cultivator Ideal for breaking up rough dug soil and mixing in fertiliser . |
| 22 | Before the mid-twenties it is difficult to obtain reliable information on a person 's priorities because the period of adolescence is all about sorting out parental peer group and personal goals . |
| 23 | The 2ft high kangaroo-type creature was feeling a bit down-under with having only one lady friend for company in his compound at Acorn Nurseries at Lanchester , Co Durham . |
| 24 | I am quite unable to accept that Parliament in adopting somewhat more prolix language was intending to achieve a result which differed from that recommended by the committee . |
| 25 | Once , the Harvard training officer allowed a dealer to visit a wealthy businessman who had expressed an interest in picking up Hard Rock Cafe shares , ( as he had contacts there ) but only if they could meet up . |
| 26 | Robin commented : ‘ The operation of the monthly audit has drawn the regional operations closer and assisted us in meeting even higher customer service standards . |
| 27 | Another company had difficulty in tracking down specialised research work , what there is and how to get a copy . |
| 28 | You have to be some chancer to turn down 10 million for a player that could burn out from snorting too much junk food in a few years : - ) ( mixing my puns there , I think ) . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 30 | After all , if there is no such right of indemnity , and none may be created by order of the court , there may be a sound policy reason for it , namely that the court will not aid somebody who was knowingly involved in carrying on unauthorised investment business . |