Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | take seriously the possibility of institutional dominance posed by the existence of their own and other welfare organisations … they would be concerned to consider options for change which challenge the vested interest , or the market position of their organisation itself — for instance by acting as subordinate partner to other agencies in a cooperative venture . |
| 2 | After a buffet lunch with various head office guests , Mike Bloy and Morton Henderson led a discussion and syndicate session entitled Managing People Through Change which analysed the various factors both physical and emotional that the modern manager must be aware of in order to react and communicate in a positive and constructive way . |
| 3 | The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow . |
| 4 | After lunch he formed the Italian habit of taking a siesta and he went to bed early . |
| 5 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 6 | Day after day I watched the three people . |
| 7 | The big games are good to watch , they 're quite exciting but week after week you get the English divisions , some of the Scottish divisions and it 's really quite boring ! |
| 8 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 9 | Overall , they are not nearly so trendy as articles about architecture which let the fortuitous effect of individual photographs lead the text into exaggeration and bombast . |
| 10 | During rehearsal I wore the same fawn woollen cardigan . |
| 11 | Perhaps a future generation will come to recognize that the most misguided , though well intentioned , feature of our present age was that , having discovered by the methods of genuine science that man is a single zoological species and thus a unity in his physical nature , we tried , by political coercion and propaganda , to impose on man , as cultural moral being , a comparable sense of unity which contradicts the very essence of our human nature . |
| 12 | They are locked into a broader pattern of support which spans the three generations of parents and children , rather than existing on their own terms . |
| 13 | Before that he had worked as GM in Brazil , exploring a portfolio of acreage which included the great tracts of land in which BP was an interest holder in the middle Amazon basin as well as onshore blocks in the Parana Basin and offshore in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin . |
| 14 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 15 | Together with the other forests of the Empire it forms a continuous block of woodland which dominates the whole central area of the Empire . |
| 16 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 17 | The principle of Contrast itself provides the necessary mechanism . |
| 18 | The story it tells is close to the historical details already described , but there is an overlay of romanticism which brings the dry facts to life . |
| 19 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |
| 20 | And I still maintain er of course they use the old argument that er tapes and all this and erm they er scar the countryside . |
| 21 | Of course we have the additional complication that the over- large government bureaucracy 's at present run by a political party which seems to have given up thinking about anything much other than staying in power and I know and hope that you will be part of thinking about much more than that , but still even with a large union , you could regulate concentrate on stimulating the grass roots and then on building upwards . |
| 22 | Years ago we used to have the W E A Lecturers and erm that , they always did current affairs and er of course we have the different councillors . |
| 23 | Of course we understand the difficult position in which unemployment places many people . |
| 24 | And er of course he alerted the other two fellows and there were no fighting there was only about two little fire extinguishers on the tower . |
| 25 | Oh yes , yes the erm , the main one was the Transport and General Workers ' Union which erm , did all the drivers , conductors and cleaners and semi-skilled staff but erm you had the erm N U V B which is the National Union and Vehicle Builders and of course you had the Electrical Trades People , so they , they were all working in there but the main one covering most of the men was the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 26 | ‘ And then of course you need the same set-up in Europe . |
| 27 | If , however , you get elected and you then have to carry out your policies , then of course you face the real world and the you ca n't have your cake and eat it problem . |
| 28 | It 's also the highest proportion of our oi erm production for these reasons and of course it has the greatest return pocket in that . |
| 29 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 30 | Of course I know the vast majority — especially the New People — do n't care a damn about any of the arts . |