Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the prospect of taking on Milan , for whom Hateley played between 1984 and 1987 , does not concern the 30-year-old former England striker , despite the Italian club 's billing as the clear favourites . |
| 2 | One might argue that a three month deadline would be just that — a time after which teams looking after unconscious patients should make realistic decisions about their prognosis . |
| 3 | This is particularly important for people in the older age group who encounter much prejudice about their ability to adapt to new working methods and ? or the stresses of high pressure production methods or computerized management skills . |
| 4 | The study , which looked at three SSDs in the north-west of England , was initiated after departments expressed concerns about their ability to cope with new remand arrangements under the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 5 | The purpose of teaching these topics explicitly and formally is to provide student-teachers with the opportunity to evaluate their own experience and to make professional judgments about their learners based on scientific principles and evaluated evidence . |
| 6 | Despite Buckingham Palace 's bid to show the Waleses as a united couple , the pictures on these two pages speak volumes about their inability to relax in each other 's company . |
| 7 | The way they joke about their LP going to 207 ‘ with an anchor ’ , the way they break down the myths of the American Dream and the Troubles back home … |
| 8 | Becher ( 1981 ) showed that academics have stereotyped ideas about their colleagues working in other fields . |
| 9 | There was to be no debate about which direction to take in economic policy ; the essentials of supply-side theory were to be taken as given and the criteria for appointment to the major economic policy posts were to be , ‘ competence , experience , and absolute , complete loyalty to Reagan 's economic policies … . |
| 10 | Sue was on about her daughter living with that bloke like , I do n't know if it was the same bloke , I just du n no , yes it is , yes it is , it 's got ta be the one , when she broke her shoulder , it 's got ta be , anyway he got no job and Sarah got this good job apparently wherever it is , I ca n't remember where it was |
| 11 | She liked him still but felt that the familiarity of his uninvited arm about her shoulder called for backing-away tactics . |
| 12 | The result of her impetuosity was a thousand-mile journey up the Nile and a book about her adventures published in 1877 . |
| 13 | She was made an MBE for her services to bridge in 1975 . |
| 14 | Rory told Jessica about his girlfriend Rosie , not a great deal but nothing too disloyal , while she for her part realised after some moments that she was not listening with more than half an ear , but wondering what she should tell him about Parr . |
| 15 | She placed a hot Normandy pudding for the doctor to serve and a crème brûlée for her mistress to offer to those who preferred it . |
| 16 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 17 | ANOTHER girl aged 11 has also won legal aid to fight for her right to live with foster parents . |
| 18 | If , er if I was to further refine that I would argue quite strongly that a lot of people see it as their duty to vote in general elections mm ? |
| 19 | If these assumptions are correct , and the cattle returns accurate , an animal 's chance of being stolen during its lifetime ranged from forty per cent in the Low Country around 1880 to three per cent in the Interior region at the end of the century . |
| 20 | Itzhak Moda'i , the Finance Minister , and Yuval Ne'eman , Minister of Science and Energy , had been invited to Moscow by the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and Industry , and discussions during their visit centred on economic and scientific co-operation . |
| 21 | The school is a locked mansion of empty , high-ceilinged rooms , of dangerous clearings and winding stairs , a country through which children travel in huddled groups of five , flattening themselves against walls while brave scouts check the route ahead and guard the rear . |
| 22 | The change through which schools moved in those years was no less dramatic than that . |
| 23 | As its name suggests , the inter-bank market is a market through which banks lend to each other . |
| 24 | The station was truly a gateway through which people passed in endless profusion on a variety of missions — a place of motion and emotion , arrival and departure , joy and sorrow , parting and reunion . |
| 25 | The government for its part insisted on all-party negotiations to draw up the constitution , with elections to follow . |
| 26 | We visited Paleokastritsa on the western side , famed for its bays shadowed by magnificent cliffs . |
| 27 | The target the researchers were working towards in this case was the ability for its systems to recover from transient errors and other faults in the software . |
| 28 | THE UNITED STATES ' navy is under heavy fire for its plan to dispose of 100 or more of its old nuclear submarines off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts over the next 20 or so years . |
| 29 | The Kinshasa demonstration followed calls from the opposition alliance , the Sacred Union , for popular protest in support of the national conference as it rejected proposals for its replacement outlined by Prime Minister Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond . |
| 30 | One of the reasons for its speed comes from that . |