Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great pressure of the overlying sediments and the mineral-rich solutions that circulate through them cause chemical changes in the calcium phosphate of the bones . |
| 2 | If Andrew Morton , the paparazzi , the Press and the public were to take a similar interest in your marriage or mine , I 'm sure it would n't be difficult for them to pinpoint dramatic cracks in our relationships . |
| 3 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 4 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is setting an obstacle course for the courts which will make it more difficult for them to pass tough sentences in serious cases ? |
| 5 | If they have 500 claims on a pro forma where people are simply asked to sign their name at the bottom , it is not unreasonable for them to consider those claims with a certain degree of scepticism . |
| 6 | The new status of the building societies ( see below ) has made it necessary and advantageous for them to raise extra funds in the wholesale money markets . |
| 7 | Banks entered this market in a big way in the early 1980s , after the abolition of the ‘ corset ’ scheme , which inhibited the growth of their interest-bearing deposits and made it difficult for them to lend large sums without incurring financial penalties imposed by the Bank of England . |
| 8 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 9 | In the past it has been difficult for them to have long runs in the team . ’ |
| 10 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 11 | They were they were asking for them to make more slates for for less money and they were n't prepared to sit down and really talk it through with the men they just treated you know they just had this awful attitude |
| 12 | The teachers understood that what they were doing would have to change if they were to foster skills of mathematical thinking , but it was still difficult for them to change well-established habits for others of unproven value . |
| 13 | The University will expect the students to take more responsibility for their own learning experiences , and more opportunities will be provided for them to develop personal skills like independence and initiative , leadership , flexibility and team work , communication skills and so on ; in short , the qualities which will help people to succeed in a wide variety of jobs after graduation . |
| 14 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 15 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 16 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 17 | We use the same A , B , C , as in Example 1 , but select as our starting vector submatrix unc In choosing Yo we have selected simple vectors which are clearly linearly independent , and which between them bring all elements in A into operation in the formation of Wo . |
| 18 | The rocks themselves are streaked with gleaming mineral secretions ; in the cracks between them grow spiky aloes with bright red florets . |
| 19 | The others include Western Areas , H. J Joel , South Deep and Lindum which between them produce 51.7 tons of gold . |
| 20 | In sociological terms they are ‘ ideal types ’ and the differences between them have all kinds of thematic and representative significance . |
| 21 | The society was formed in October 1982 with nine members who , between them have 257 years of service ! |
| 22 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 23 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 25 | It was held on the anniversary itself , and for me followed three days of interviews and other press events organized by Cathy and Chris . |
| 26 | There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose . |
| 27 | It was too painful for me to repeat those words from my childhood , ‘ Please do n't go , ’ and risk further rejection . |
| 28 | Would it prudent for me to consider both sets of minutes rather than us get into difficulty ? |
| 29 | It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms . |
| 30 | It 's really difficult for me to measure these sorts of things , but if you stop and look at him , he must have been in pain . |