Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't even the sight of Alf Roberts in Coronation Street collapsing with a suspected heart attack after eating too much Christmas pudding . |
| 2 | My answer to that would be that er since the only permissible reason for pushing out this inset boundary would be a need for expansion , expansion involves built development , and built development would not seem to be within er the possibility of er Policy E N V One as well as within the possibility of er other policies |
| 3 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 4 | It is also only too keen to buy and , just two months after the release of ‘ The World Wo n't Listen ’ , Rough Trade were forced into the position of issuing yet another Smiths compilation album , this time a double album , on to the English record racks . |
| 5 | ‘ Nuts are full of goodness , but they make you fat , and there was a bloke once died of drinking too much carrot juice . ’ |
| 6 | In the course of carrying on this investment business Pantell S.A. distributed a series of advertisements in order to persuade persons in the United Kingdom to purchase shares in European American Corporation Inc. , a company incorporated in Utah , U.S.A. ( ‘ Euramco ’ ) . |
| 7 | However , because of the problems of discovering how much people value public goods , it is virtually impossible for government to determine the most socially efficient quantity of public goods . |
| 8 | ’ They virtually killed off our season when they beat us in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge last year , but now we have the incentive of setting up another Mersey derby if we win . ’ |
| 9 | They are the spearhead of the Imperial army , capable of shattering almost any enemy line under the right circumstances . |
| 10 | With having all those years experience , I know when a player is nervous or choking , whatever people want to call it . |
| 11 | I am quite unable to accept that Parliament in adopting somewhat more prolix language was intending to achieve a result which differed from that recommended by the committee . |
| 12 | You have to be some chancer to turn down 10 million for a player that could burn out from snorting too much junk food in a few years : - ) ( mixing my puns there , I think ) . |
| 13 | Thanks to the Children 's Book Foundation for their help in putting together this report PAGE wom |
| 14 | Other issues relate to investigating how this uncertainty information can best be presented to the user . |
| 15 | Schrödinger 's original reason for putting forward this thought experiment was to demonstrate the folly , as he then believed , of the quantum theory : clearly it was ridiculous to think of a cat being neither dead nor alive — or , as an obvious corollary , both dead and alive at the same time . |
| 16 | I I mean I think I think in retrospect the erm this is n't intended as a criticism erm of past work , but I do think we need to look at getting as much volunteer help in the town towards volun volunt environmental achievements as possible because one of our one of our claims is that we 're cost effective and can galvanize voluntary effort , and if we erm put all of our work out to tender including relatively small works , we 're actually going to negate that particular claim and we 're gon na look as as as er cost cost wasteful as the district council and the county council in their use of professional help all the time , even though there may be people in the community who are prepared to help . |
| 17 | They well help protect the hair by preventing too much heat penetration . |