Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , surely , he must have known that German sprint star Katrin Krabbe was banned after being positively tested for Clenbuterol ? |
| 2 | Yeah , you 're longest chain is a six so it could of been clearly based on hexane . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 4 | So by implication if you c if the new settlement is capable of being well served by public transports , then that is se a a satisfactory situation . |
| 5 | In spite of being wholeheartedly committed to trolleybus conversion , there were still some minor improvements to the tram facilities . |
| 6 | I have in mind the experience of being suddenly thrust outside time , which constitutes in The Idiot and elsewhere the epileptic aura . |
| 7 | And that is why , as it seems to me , fairness dictates that the instructions upon which he is directed to act should be expressed in language which is unambiguous and capable of being readily understood without reference to speculation , from material not obvious or readily available to the reader , about what Parliament intended to say but has not clearly said . |
| 8 | In spite of being almost tethered to Marguerite , Jenna enjoyed the trip and was rewarded later by being instructed in the cooking of some of the purchases . |
| 9 | What proportion of is now made in house ? |
| 10 | Being Ymor 's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces . |
| 11 | It is essential to realize that , far from being consciously understood with insight into their inner meaning , all of these psychological developments were totally unconscious and accompanied by no insight whatsoever . |
| 12 | There is an obvious intention of preventing the Gospel from being freely proclaimed on television . |
| 13 | We would note that many languages have , in addition to the three basic sentence-types mentioned above , others that appear to be similarly circumscribed in use : exclamatives that are used paradigmatically to express surprise , imprecatives to curse , optatives to express a wish , and so on ( again , see Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 14 | It is thus not clear that these accident estimates are particularly stable assessments of the objective danger at the junction ; they are likely to be strongly determined by risk ratings . |
| 15 | Their results indicate that bargaining structure is systematically related to product and labour market considerations and that high concentration and large plant size are found to be strongly associated with single-firm , as opposed to multi-firm , agreements . |
| 16 | William Morton Pitt of Kingston Maurwood , MP for Dorset and a relative of the two famous Prime Ministers ‘ impressed with the beauty of the situation of Swanwich and the salubrity of its climate , and finding the shore of smooth fine sand to be admirably adapted for sea bathing , first conceived the idea of raising it to the condition of a watering place ’ . |
| 17 | These exceptions are important and consideration should be given to inserting them in trust documents although this seems to be rarely done in practice . |
| 18 | Judging by American experience , there is no doubt that , as annual percentage rates come to be widely quoted in conformity with the new Consumer Credit Act regulations , people will become more familiar with them . |
| 19 | CUP has Tasks for Language Teachers by Martin Parrot of International House in London , and this , although expensive at £13.95 , promises to be widely used on teacher training courses . |
| 20 | When documents first began to be widely used in history teaching , local documents were often cited as a local illustration of the national theme . |
| 21 | Despite such problems , particularly in attempts to define specific neuropsychological correlates to all its forms , the concept of arousal , or activation , continues to be widely used in psychology ( e.g. K. J. Anderson , 1990 ; Revelle & D. A. Loftus , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | We want to guide the Bill through all its stages and for it to be properly scrutinised in Committee . |
| 23 | It is important for the organ to be properly covered by insurance , but making it available to students costs little and is again an investment for the future . |
| 24 | ‘ ( 1 ) Solicitors shall ensure that every office where they or their firms practise is and can reasonably be seen to be properly supervised in accordance with the following minimum standards : |
| 25 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |
| 26 | Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed . |
| 27 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 28 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 29 | He told himself that it was ridiculous for him to be nearly trembling with fear , wondering what form her explosion would take . |
| 30 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |