Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |
| 2 | It was a hell of leaping flames through which darted black figures . |
| 3 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 4 | Instead of brushing your hair after setting which can cause splitting , gently run your fingers through it to create tousled waves . |
| 5 | They are very useful for spraying large areas or inaccessible or elevated surfaces for which purpose some spray wands can be fitted with extensions of up to 2 metres . |
| 6 | I 've apologised many times for what happened that night . |
| 7 | Consequently , it is often impossible for lone appointees to represent the views of users effectively and authorities must become more seriously committed to listening to service user 's opinions and providing opportunities for them to exercise real influence . |
| 8 | Er on the public sector side this was quite specific , the child 's and the public sector er group er were also going to develop an internal audit product for the public sector but they a huge market in fact and we saw er great opportunities for us to develop that side of the er the business and coming very much under the wing quality public er public company clients , very large clients , great potention for us . |
| 9 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 10 | MODERN technology has given geologists a variety of methods with which to find new deposits of metals . |
| 11 | He turned his head and walked towards a flight of shallow steps above which jutted two triangles of red granite . |
| 12 | According to Rowthorn , multinational B 's operating unit in nation state l might be appropriated by the left government and sold off to help provide funds with which to compensate multinational A for the appropriation of its operating unit in nation state 2 ( in order to reduce the chances of direct counter-revolutionary intervention by other states ) . |
| 13 | Although there are major collections in the National Museums of Scotland in Queen Street , Edinburgh , and the museums at Meigle , near Coupar Angus , and St Andrew 's cathedral , one of the most attractive settings in which to study such stones is the row of cottages below the church at St Vigeans , just outside Arbroath . |
| 14 | She carries under one arm her folder of lecture notes , and under the other a bundle of books from which to read illustrative quotations . |
| 15 | If the United Nations Convention comes into force there could potentially be two seabed conventional regimes with parties to one constituting third parties to the other . |
| 16 | The lawn climbs a slope several yards in front of the summerhouse , and in those days , as today , four flagstones embedded into the grass served as steps by which to negotiate this climb . |
| 17 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 18 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 19 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 20 | There there was the message of Marcus Garvey , whose writings and activities before and after the First World War laid the foundations of what became Black Power . |
| 21 | Products of one became raw materials or fuel for another , as shown in the diagram . |
| 22 | This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first ! |
| 23 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 24 | To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay . |
| 25 | She started wondering whether permission might not be sought from the parents for her to give private tuition to Matilda after school . |
| 26 | The complexity of drawing together accurate personnel data in a dispersed organisation — some elements of which have autonomous powers — is a major deterrent to basing decisions on facts . |
| 27 | However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding . |
| 28 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 29 | ‘ I use the sides of the sticks to create bold strokes with which to cover large areas quickly . |
| 30 | Unlike the United States , Britain had no large sparsely-populated desert areas in which to deploy strategic missiles . |