Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks .
2 The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup .
3 The biggest component of these exports was textiles ; in March 1990 the USA had agreed to double Turkey 's quota of textile imports , and in May 1991 the EC increased by 30 per cent the quota for Turkish textiles entering the European market , in which around 40 per cent of imports already came from Turkey .
4 Liver sections of rats chronically intoxicated with phalloidin were also used , as previously described .
5 A boycott of classes also began in support of the hunger strikers .
6 BEFORE THE END of his mammoth production Birds of Europe and his Monograph of Toucans ever came into view , Gould began planning his next major project .
7 It was based in part on the resurrection of ideas originally propounded by G. H. Mead .
8 To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away .
9 To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away .
10 Crystal Palace winger Salako — he broke down again earlier this season — and Ian Durrant of Rangers both went to America to have a dead person 's tendon implanted in the knee .
11 In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries this reforming enthusiasm was channelled into the foundation of Orders more oriented towards service of the whole community — the mendicant Dominicans and Franciscans were travelling preachers and the Augustinian Canons ( known as Austin Friars ) were committed to lives of pastoral service .
12 The eastern one was only partly examined , revealing towards the rear a series of pits probably dug for gravel , though no buildings were identified .
13 A survey of college students showed that 51 per cent of men never dreamed in colour , while only 31 per cent of women never did . "
14 For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc .
15 Branches of fir , complete with cones also sprayed with gold , had been laboriously pinned to the walls .
16 And she would want to see monitoring of any pubs admitting children , with premises carefully vetted before permission to let in youngsters was granted .
17 As a control for non specific binding of proteins the eluates were obtained from beads alone incubated with brain extract ( lane 1 1M , lane 2 500mM and lane 3 250mM ) and from the heterologous oligonucleotide 168 linked to beads incubated with brain extract ( lane 7 , 500mM and lane 8 , 1M ) .
18 Within the building , which faces inwards to a quadrangle , there is the magnificent Playfair Library Hall on the south side and , in rooms recently redecorated in period style , the Talbot Rice Gallery on the west .
19 Guided by the Emperor 's own harsh wisdom and foresight , they had experimented on the very stuff of Chaos and upon slaves permanently immobilized in nutrient vats , and upon prisoners .
20 Colin Hunter , 17 , of Hammond Drive , and Peter Llewelyn Jones , 18 , of Tyne Crescent , both Darlington , and a juvenile appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with offences relating to alleged burglary of a house in Grange Road .
21 Boy charged with rape A 15-YEAR-OLD boy appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with rape and other serious sexual offences involving young children , alleged to have been committed over a lengthy period .
22 Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively .
23 The effect of this lenience was that the yield of 4s. in the pound on landed incomes and 2s. 8d. on goods actually fell during Elizabeth 's reign — a period of rising prices and of growing prosperity for the propertied classes — from about £140,000 at the beginning of the reign to about £85,000 at the end .
24 I never cared for results never cared for results at all .
25 Gold medal for daffodils also went to Brian Duncan , J Walker and the Society 's Narcissus and Tulip Group .
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