Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very essence of his buildings is expressed through intimately relating ornament to structure so , together , they create astonishing , tautly dynamic , glittering volumes and spaces for people . |
| 2 | After lengthy backbench Opposition speeches had stretched out discussions , a government whip just after 11pm moved closure of debate , which Mr Bob Cryer ( Lab . |
| 3 | With both men having defences more vulnerable than Leeds , there should be no complaints even from those paying $800 for ringside seats about not getting value for money . |
| 4 | Children who do this are making a statement about not needing comfort from adults , while at another level needing them desperately and choosing a place where they know they will be forced out . |
| 5 | If only they had n't become so friendly , he was sure he would have enjoyed having a relationship with her ; but he had a rule about not mixing sex with friendship . |
| 6 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 7 | There are good reasons for not inflicting pain on animals , but no particular point is made , except rhetorically , by grounding this in rights . |
| 8 | Historical comparisons between the results of the few surveillance studies of locally confined disease with results of treatment studies are not conclusive . |
| 9 | Mr Darby admitted that the company had faced difficult trading conditions , despite successfully completing integration of Ultramar 's oil and gasfield interests and raising about £1 billion from assets sold off already . |
| 10 | ( You might also try last year 's ‘ She who weeps ’ [ JMT ] ; the beautiful song New African Blues certainly received a deal of wholly warranted airplay from London jazz station Jazz FM and many people have asked me where it came from . |
| 11 | In parallel with the American emergency air lift recently announced , we are offering a supply of badly needed aid to Ekaterinburg , formerly Sverdlovsk — the kind of city of which my hon. Friend is thinking — and details of that British aid are now being worked out . |
| 12 | Reason , whether as insight into necessary relations between ideas , as in mathematics , or in the form of inductively based prediction of consequences , simply reveals the means to achieving what emotionally one wants to achieve . |
| 13 | The consequences of inadequately treated infection in pregnancy — acute pyelonephritis and premature delivery — are serious enough to warrant a cautious therapeutic approach and careful microbiological follow up . |
| 14 | One solution to the data-collection problems outlined in 7.2 is to supplement a corpus of naturally occurring speech with data gathered by some kind of experimental method . |
| 15 | A 17-year effort to protect some seven million acres of federally owned desert in California seems to be on the brink of success , the result of a new president and changing attitudes in Congress . |
| 16 | Cheaply produced coal from Colombia is one of the main sources of imports which are helping to undermine the competitiveness of domestically produced coal in Britain . |
| 17 | Although the offence of having sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 has the advantage of not requiring proof of lack of consent , it carries a maximum penalty of just two years ’ imprisonment . |
| 18 | The spokesman said : ‘ Lloyds Bank has a policy of not releasing information about thefts . |
| 19 | The poem , which many sports people have adopted as a sort of anthem , also advises on ‘ keeping one 's head while all around are losing theirs ’ , of not giving way to hate or dealing in lies . |
| 20 | Fires , falling masonry and ruptured services are among the fatal consequences of not protecting property against earthquakes |
| 21 | Taking account of moves towards further devolved management to schools and proposed greater consultation between headteachers and boards it is likely that training will be all the more important in the future . |
| 22 | The results underline how essential it is to scrutinize the case for publishing exhibition catalogues ( as opposed to free handouts ) very carefully , and to take into account factors such as the saleability of the catalogue after the exhibition is over , and the importance of carefully directed promotion of publications through mail order . |
| 23 | The firm had been accused of illegally moving money around banks to earn interest from several accounts at once . |
| 24 | This project will develop ways of automatically adding information about word meaning to computer readable texts . |
| 25 | Playing time is longer about one hour of straight playing time per side — but random access is less accurate . |
| 26 | Our inability to celebrate death takes the flavour from our food and leaves us in a state of wilfully maintained childhood with nursery tastes to match . |
| 27 | The Ouse Washes is the largest inland area of regularly flooded marshland in Great Britain . |
| 28 | CHILDREN of today come face to face with images of the past at an exhibition in a Middlesbrough museum . |
| 29 | And — most amazingly — even the seeds of the insectivorous pitcher plant — which traps its prey in pools of chemically laced water on leaves sporting a glissading escarpment of downward-pointing hairs and narcotic-laced nectar — even the tiny seeds of this plant trap prey by means of slime and poison , then digesting the surrounding mulch of decaying creatures as they germinate , forming into seedlings and plants . |
| 30 | This project tests the acceptability of the concept of chemically treating straw among livestock farmers . |