Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only if the chief constable expressed his order in terms such as that he considered any injury to his men to constitute serious public disorder might the courts be prepared to intervene .
2 For Labour they want more people employed and that 's to the detriment of taxes and inflation .
3 However , the right hon. Gentleman has shown that he is indeed a right honourable gentleman , and for that he deserves great credit .
4 Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members .
5 During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg .
6 For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands .
7 To allow for this we provided several opportunities in the questionnaire for teachers to make additional individual observations .
8 For this he paid ten pence a year at Michaelmas and performed a number of other duties on the lord 's land and paid tithes to the church .
9 For this you turn sharp right off the road from Saint-Jean to Saint-Palais , about half-way between those two towns .
10 However , for this you need right thinking and a right understanding , because it is this thinking impulse and action of the higher truth that ultimately leads to inner freedom .
11 For this you need distilled water and presumably something to accurately measure 20ml of it .
12 For this you need one recorder , the " master machine " you copy onto , and one other " slave " machine to copy from .
13 Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters .
14 During 1876 he built new premises on the outskirts of Aberdeen , to cope with the increased demand .
15 After that they made better progress and managed to slip undetected out into the emptiness .
16 Then after that they bought another tug called , then they had another one called the , that was a diesel tug .
17 After that we use ordinary physics that we know and love and understand , but before that time we 're working with uncertain physics and uncertain cosmology .
18 A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield .
19 The next day he motored to four miles south of Hereford to lunch with an old cousin , and the day after that he attended two funerals , both of ‘ old Worcestershire friends who died on Christmas Day ’ .
20 After that he sat all day by the fire in the private room .
21 After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla .
22 After this I bought some contact magazines .
23 After this he spent long periods in Madeira until his death in 1907 .
24 For a period after this he stopped inviting Bobby for meals at Lyons and took Eric Verrico instead .
25 AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ .
26 After 1917 he undertook diplomatic duties , including a goodwill mission to America and two visits to London in 1918 ; in 1919 he attended the Paris peace conference .
27 ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel .
28 Paul Bedworth , 19 , now studying artificial intelligence at Edinburgh University , allegedly brought the Brussels computer system to a halt after commanding it to make 50,000 phone calls .
29 After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) .
30 The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues .
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