Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instance cited was where debt charges continue to be included in revenue accounts for financing assets whose useful life is over . |
| 2 | Their wedding took place in Paris on New Year 's Day 1537 with all the pomp James could have wished for , accompanied by the substantial dowry which he also fancied ; but six weeks after reaching Scotland his fragile wife died , unable to survive the rigours of the Scottish winter . |
| 3 | In the first half , Gavin hit the rich seam of kicking form which all Scotland yearns will be reprised at Murrayfield against the Welsh . |
| 4 | Thus , although the main aim of our research was to help Wirral Council to develop policies and plan services for heroin users , based on a sound empirical base , we also had an eye to improving methods of estimating prevalence which any community might employ to answer such questions as : How many residents are known to use heroin or other illicit drugs ? |
| 5 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 6 | In return for giving Loblaws its official seal of approval , Probe was to receive a royalty on sales . |
| 7 | Widespread complaints of poor management and excessive service charges led to the establishment … [ of ] the " Nugee Committee " … at the same time there has been ever-increasing concern with the difficulties which confront leaseholders in selling leases whose outstanding periods have decreased significantly since their grant . |
| 8 | Montrose 's chiastic formulation of the historicity of texts and the textuality of history ( chiasmus is a rhetorical balancing created by the reversal of one concept by that succeeding it ) is indicative of some of the problems New Historicism 's methods share with the anthropological methods for reading cultures which New Historicism adopted . |
| 9 | Edward Heath 's attempts to commit the party to something more dynamic , outward-looking and enterprise-based , after the meeting at Selsdon Park in 1970 , collapsed in the face of a corporate culture which had become used to having things its own way under a succession of both Conservative and Labour governments . |
| 10 | Dysmap compiles and carries out continuous simulation models and is particularly suited to modelling situations whose dynamic nature is based on feedback processes . |
| 11 | Friedman 's early guitar lessons were not what you 'd call fruitful , since his teacher was less than keen on showing Marty his favourite Frehley licks . |
| 12 | Teachers in schools simply have no alternative to making language their principal means of interaction with pupils , they have daily and inevitably to produce , elicit , and evaluate spoken and written text , to concern themselves with literary and language development . |
| 13 | We can do this by presenting societies whose ideological construction of human nature and behaviour is such as to favour peaceful coexistence . |
| 14 | If the party now announced it was going to introduce real democracy by giving England her rightful representation this would cause a sensation , sweep aside the pat-ball politics and allow for the start of serious thinking about the future of the UK . |
| 15 | Communist Party thought that how that by giving peasants their own land it would give them the incentive to increase production which |