Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have some knowledge of the Lutterworth site to which Professor Lock referred and of the Toyota site at Derby . |
| 2 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 3 | Five teams ( from Divisions II-IV ) have been dropped from last season 's event and Currie hope that in the future both Melrose and Gala will be able to participate , though the uncertainty over the pair 's national league match precluded their involvement this year . |
| 4 | Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes . |
| 5 | Bede says that after the defeat and death of Oswiu 's son and successor , Ecgfrith , in the battle of Nechtanesmere in 685 , the Picts recovered their land which the Angles had held and the Scots who lived in Britain and certain of the Britons ( perhaps of Strathclyde ) their independence ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 6 | Benazir Bhutto says that after the summer of turmoil in Pakistan , this could be the last chance for parliamentary democracy . |
| 7 | Sitting much later in the genteel coffee shop of a Holiday Inn in Suburban Virginia , Habib Olahi recalled that as the Shah walked to and fro , he said , " This is against the constitution . " |
| 8 | However , Defence Secretary Dick Cheney stated that in the light of recent political events in the Soviet Union , which had given him " some pause for concern " , the cutback programme could be halted if the Soviet military showed signs of reasserting its power . |
| 9 | A note on the file at St Martin's-le-Grand shows that for the year ending 31 December , 1920 , the Electrophone Company 's income from subscribers was £11 868 , its operating expenses were £5866 , and its royalty payment to the Post Office was just £496 . |
| 10 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 11 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 12 | Lord Hodson said that in the case of agreements between commercial companies for regulating their trade relations the parties are usually the best judges of what is reasonable . |
| 13 | Belkheir said that in the unrest since January 103 people had died ( a revision of the previous figure — see p. 38790 ) and 414 had been wounded . |
| 14 | From his analysis of Soviet commentary , Zimmerman argues that in the period October 1961 to March 1962 these developments ‘ exacerbated the ongoing dialogue within the Soviet ruling group concerning the adequacy of the Soviet deterrent ’ and ‘ suggested grave misgivings on the part of –ome Soviet observers lest the defining characteristics of imperialist international relations be restored ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 187 ) . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , Shandell says that by the end of August the company will have versions ‘ for most versions of Unix ’ , by which he means implementations for Unix System V.4 , and Motorola Inc 's 88open standard plus versions for Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Data General Corp , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and ICL Plc Unixes and IBM 's AIX . |
| 16 | But the SD added that in the areas tormented by allied bombing the trust of the people was expressed ‘ with more reserve ’ , and non-attendance at the celebrations was carefully excused by saying ‘ that it should n't be taken amiss if , despite all our love for the Führer , we ca n't celebrate his birthday this year with the usual joy ’ . |
| 17 | Cantril argued that on the whole , the less educated were the most gullible . |
| 18 | Adler found that despite the legislation a woman 's sexual history was routinely introduced during a rape trial . |
| 19 | The ICRC estimated that in the town of Iscia Baidoa , 220 km north-west of Mogadishu , 7,000 of the town 's 40,000 people had died from starvation in recent months . |
| 20 | Artemis knew that from the way the woman had sighed . |
| 21 | Mr. Diamond asserts that under the Visby Protocol tort liability would be precluded in at least two of the examples . |
| 22 | A cold meal was hastily served , a few words exchanged , and everyone speedily retired as Catesby insisted that on the morrow we would rise early as there was a great deal of business to be done . |
| 23 | In fact , according to a recent Scottish Tourist Board survey , 79 percent of all visitors to Scotland come because of the heritage attractions , putting activities such as hillwalking , fishing and golf well down the list . |
| 24 | Speaking at his home at James Street , Falkirk , Graeme explained that before the incident , he had worked for a short spell on a YTS course with ScotRail , before taking a job as a gardener . |
| 25 | Finally , Portes suggests that in the struggle , the groups rarely come into direct confrontation with the dominant class , but usually with members of the bureaucratic-technical class who staff the agencies of the state ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Reworking of her indices by Deane and Cole suggests that between the quinquennium 1750 – 4 to 1785 – 9 money wage rises in the South varied between less than 4 per cent for London labourers and 19.4 per cent for those of Kent , whereas in Lancashire labourers gained 64 per cent and craftsmen 40.5 per cent over the period . |
| 27 | Sir Bernard complains that in the case of the Biffen and Pym briefings , his comments ‘ were dragged out of me . |
| 28 | Mr Gummer claimed that during the negotiations the powerful American farming lobby had been ‘ all over the hotel ’ . |
| 29 | In an article published in the early 1970s , Nicholas Tyacke argued that during the period from 1560 to 1625 there was a common predestinarian Calvinist heritage within the English church , shared by both prelates and Presbyterians alike , against which Laud and his supporters firmly set their faces in the 1630s . |
| 30 | Dr Jaleel argued that in the country 's more economically deprived areas , the pressure on the health service is far worse . |