Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 2 | You were right about them operatin' an outside patrol , as y'kin see . |
| 3 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 4 | Her normal pattern of working with this type of activity is for everyone to undertake the same task . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be wasteful for everyone to do the same team training over and over again . |
| 6 | It is no longer essential for everyone to do the same experiment at the same time , and be held up when a few find unexpected difficulties . |
| 7 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 8 | It 's time for everyone to have a super time ! |
| 9 | The electrodes were so positioned that current flowing through them caused a particular pleasure . |
| 10 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 11 | In October 1962 the choir felt it was difficult for them to give a strong lead to the congregational singing because of where the choir was placed and it was recommended that the Trustees should take expert advice on the rearranging of the pulpit area of the church . |
| 12 | This is the relevance of rules ; for the courts to embrace such an issue would be for them to breach the long-standing settlement with regard to the boundaries of parliamentary privilege ( see below , pp.113–19 ) and they would not do it . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , there is still a sufficiently good chance that they are the father for them to undertake the major share of parental duties . |
| 14 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 15 | It has been almost impossible for them to acquire the artistic infrastructure that should surround those works so that they can be seen in the right scholarship context . |
| 16 | Someone had given the impetus to sort the outside external improvements for starters , and that provided the spur to for them to do the internal work . |
| 17 | To return to the shareholder example , having raised the point that it is in shareholders ' interests to ensure their returns are reasonable , it logically follows that there will be an incentive for them to spend a certain amount of time and money finding out about the firm 's activities and performance . |
| 18 | Central government not only mapped out extended statutory territory for local councils to develop , but also provided a large financial incentive for them to cultivate the new territory . |
| 19 | Controlling for them tests the original relationship between X and Y , and checks that it holds up . |
| 20 | If polar bears are dominant in the Arctic , then there would seem to have been no need for them to evolve a white-coloured form of camouflage . |
| 21 | While waiting for them to reach the outer limit of their seaward tack , we fished for our enormous aviator 's chart which was larger and more colourful , if little more useful , than theirs . |
| 22 | Friedan psychopathologizes women 's frustration with domesticity , and proposes the male-identified tactics of better education and paid work outside the home as ways for them to reach the male-associated goals of high self-esteem and strong identity . |
| 23 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 24 | It was appreciated that , being obese , it was not easy for them to climb the three sets of stairs leading to our house . |
| 25 | This is not only because of the harmful effects they can have on the physical self but also because the need for them indicates a severe deficiency in the emotional self — a deficiency which needs to be helped and treated rather than disguised . |
| 26 | But the lads have been tremendous , and there 's a buzz around the club now all we want now is for them to show the same attitude tonight . ’ |
| 27 | Unfortunately , the research revealed a high tendency for them to recruit the wrong people . |
| 28 | He arranged for them to adopt a dark-haired boy at birth . |
| 29 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 30 | Macromolecules in solution are usually much smaller and it would take years for them to overcome the Brownian motion and form a sediment . |