Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It must be remembered that for all its world status and the great influence it has upon the rest of the airworthiness authorities of the western world , the FAA is after all made up of fallible human beings .
2 How much of that goes back into Tory funds , through the businesses , shops , the places you 're staying ?
3 Despite this stirring up of architectural disorder into what one unkind French critic called a ‘ cultural Chernobyl ’ , the powers at Disney , led by its dashing chief executive Michael Eisner , have managed to persuade a handful of élite and influential American architects to participate .
4 Traditional epics taken from Frankish oral poetry also commanded Charles ' interest , and he had several of these copied out into formal texts .
5 Thirdly , to avoid the problems of ‘ single stage ’ studies , we adopted a processual approach and followed up a sample of those arrested through to final outcome .
6 The rationalisation is one of several going on between various European defence companies in a shrinking market .
7 Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities .
8 These included stars of stage and screen , all of whom entered into the spirit of the ball 's " Around The World in 80 Days " theme , with many turning up in fancy dress .
9 It was then but a short — though for many an agonising — step to provide special courses for those coming out of special schools and the remedial classes of comprehensives .
10 It has become clear that some colleges are having difficulty in recruiting viable numbers of students , especially from those coming in at 18-plus , mainly because school-leavers with two A levels prefer to opt for degree courses .
11 Apply back stick to half loop back to normal flight .
12 Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus .
13 Infants developing competence in their first language , experience it as a working high-speed whole , yet acquire native speaker competence without any formal instruction , apparently without effort , without any conscious formulation of rules , and without any splitting down into manageable ‘ areas ’ ( although the features of adult speech to children may provide some help ) .
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