Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , up until quite recently all Warwick basses were made with aluminium truss rods which obviously are not as strong as steel ones and are liable to break after being adjusted a few times . |
| 2 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
| 3 | Unfortunately he was standing right beside the door with the new aerial mounted on it and his voice was within a gnat 's whisker of being raised a few octaves . |
| 4 | ‘ We did say we 'd limit him to thirty mares as he 's been so busy competing , but somehow we managed to allow our arms to be twisted a few times . |
| 5 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 6 | Camcorders on the other hand have to be given a little help to cope with different kinds of lighting by adjustment of their internal white balance settings to enable them to ‘ see ’ white as the same neutral colour regardless of the conditions . |
| 7 | She said there were speed restrictions on the A167 at Aycliffe , Croxdale and Chilton , and Ferryhill people ought to be given the same protection . |
| 8 | The broadcasting of discussions and debates between politicians of widely different positions takes place regularly and , when interviewed , critics of the Federal Government appear to be given the same kind of deferential treatment as Federal spokesmen . |
| 9 | Lesley wants sexual equality , but does n't believe attitudes have yet changed enough : ‘ We do n't yet have true equality ; until we do , women will have to overstress themselves and overprove themselves just to be given the same level of respect as their male peers . |
| 10 | ‘ However , that depends how the Irish Hockey Union view the situation and I expect to be asked a few questions . |
| 11 | This information is relevant to plans for local advertising , leaflet distribution , and for determining the potential for opening another branch to be sited a few kilometres away . |
| 12 | As other publishers are likely to be experiencing the same order profiles , wholesalers can probably expect to be approached by them too . |
| 13 | Haberdashers and provision merchants were to be granted a few houses . |
| 14 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 15 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 16 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
| 17 | United 's luck changed then as Martin went off with an ankle injury , to be followed a few minutes later by Stoke defender Chris Hemming , a clattering tackle on Derning brought the red card out of the referee 's pocket and boos for Hemming . |
| 18 | New account holders will receive their opening pack immediately , to be followed a few days later by their Route Seventeen Card . |
| 19 | His conclusion that it was simply an old-fashioned recognition of his comparative youth was to be torpedoed a few minutes later when he heard her addressing his neighbour as Alf . |
| 20 | Rain water is ideal , tap water needs to be left a few days to mature before stocking . |
| 21 | 3 If you are coming back from injury or lay-off , go slowly — train progressively and do not expect to be doing the same times as you were before . |
| 22 | Like Novell Inc , which appears to be doing the same thing ( UX No 413 ) , WordPerfect reportedly has big-time legal beagles at its beck and call . |
| 23 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 24 | She was then put in an armchair only to be told a few minutes later that her operation had been cancelled because the hospital was ‘ short staffed ’ . |
| 25 | During filming he became firm friends with Steve McQueen , who played a psychopathic , womanizing American bomber captain who tries to seduce his co-pilot 's English girlfriend , only to be told a few home truths about his attitude to people and war . |
| 26 | Special care baby units are phenomenally expensive in equipment ; there 's an awful lot of monitoring equipment that 's required , and it has to be updated every few years , and the costs are quite out of proportion to the amount of money available to the health authority , so that er , on the whole , special care baby units throughout the country now rely virtually totally on charitable giving . |
| 27 | Their cars seem to be going the same way , with Daihatsu contriving to build a diesel engine of a mere 993cc for the little Charade four-seater hatchback . |
| 28 | New 8088 based computers have virtually disappeared from the scene , and now 80286 based PCs seem to be going the same way . |
| 29 | And James Herbert , another of Hodder 's biggest selling authors , is rumoured to be going the same way : he is said to be on the point of signing a two-book deal with HarperCollins worth £1.7m . |
| 30 | He was found by his father , Don who happened to be going the same way . |