Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italians are getting jumpy after drawing against the Swiss in Cagliari . |
| 2 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 3 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 4 | With a string of achievements already to his credit , including the development of such diverse destinations as Dallan in China and Rostov-on-Don in Russia , the former chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board hopes to see Derry move forward as a ‘ unified community capable of competing with the best in Europe ’ . |
| 5 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
| 6 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 7 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 8 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 9 | Let us apply the principle of moving from the general/simple to the specialist/complex to a specific example : |
| 10 | October already had been action-packed , with a talk by local historian Bert Starkey — ‘ The main thrust for good in Victorian Runcorn came from Methodism ; there were 18 chapels within one square mile , ’ — and a brilliant display of dancing by the over-forties at the dinner/dance . |
| 11 | However , despite these controls and a general reduction in the proportion of local-government expenditure emanating from central government ( down from over 60 per cent of spending in the 1970s to well under 50 per cent in the following decade ) the Conservative governments elected in 1983 and 1987 decided to continue the process . |
| 12 | We first came across this South Sea adventurer on the fourth week of cruising around the Caribbean on our Hallberg Rassy 352 , writes Jenny Allan . |
| 13 | We have a number of ways of dealing with the elderly in Western societies . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the NME offices at this time were dominated by sad , prematurely middle-aged post-modernist bores , sneering at anything enthusiastic of smacking of the political in pop . |
| 15 | Alex Ferguson , United 's manager , regards Robson 's presence in four of his team 's remaining six League matches as a realistic target and the captain is confident of playing in the first of them , at home to Southampton on Thursday . |
| 16 | Rainoldes seems to have imagined adult male sexuality not just as anarchic , but as satanically polymorphous , capable of engaging in the forbidden with alarming ease . |
| 17 | ‘ I disapprove of killing at the best of times , Ace , but , and this is vitally important , you must never kill anyone with a role in recorded history if you can possibly avoid it . |
| 18 | The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral . |
| 19 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 20 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 21 | With regard to the last of these , the sphere of circulation is that part of the social formation in which exchange takes place , through the buying and selling of all commodities ( including labour power ) . |
| 22 | Her other interests include classical music , the care of the elderly and the handicapped particularly with British Polio Fellowship and helping with riding for the disabled at the Diamond Riding Centre , Carshalton . |
| 23 | His eyes suddenly narrowed as he looked at her , and there was a silence charged with meaning between the two of them . |
| 24 | This is where I performed my gravity-defying experiments with the wind before returning to the cliff-top in the company of a couple of other walkers who , like me , were thoroughly enjoying these extraordinary conditions . |
| 25 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 26 | A fine early impression of ‘ The Resurrection ’ after Pieter Brueghel the Elder ( lot 3 , est. £24,000–30,000 ) was keenly contested by Ray Lewis , David Tunick and Helmut Rumbler before selling to the latter for £60,000 ( $90,600 ) . |
| 27 | They succeeded in closing off the third of five underground conduits formed beneath the surface crust and through which red-hot magma has been flowing . |
| 28 | There were five ancient parishes within the Borough of Bedford and in the second half of the eighteenth century they experienced increasing difficulty in dealing with the poor in the town . |
| 29 | Such taxes reduce the effectiveness of the tax , transfer and spending structure in redistributing from the rich to the poor . |
| 30 | Encourage all those who act as advocates for the oppressed within our society and who seek to channel political power into the cause of justice for everyone . |