Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 3 | Among the many things we hear in that oracular phrase is , against the odds , a bitterly won conception of language as rescue . |
| 4 | Sir John Pope Hennessy , an Irish adventurer , successfully claimed immunity from arrest for the recovery of the huge debts he accumulated while the Member for King 's County in the 1860s . |
| 5 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 6 | Yet if not all of them necessarily regarded Cnut with disfavour on his accession , it is likely that there were quarters in which he had to face considerable initial hostility . |
| 7 | In future Castle will only make provision for amortisation of audio copyrights for permanent diminution in value . |
| 8 | Would you please be good enough to arrange signature on behalf of Three Vee Ltd ? |
| 9 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
| 10 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
| 11 | p/b £15.95 Paperback reprint of David Watkin 's highly esteemed history of architecture from Knossos to Quinlan Terry . |
| 12 | Such ‘ advertorials ’ blur the distinction between editorial content and advertising and so shift control over content to the advertisers and away from news organizations . |
| 13 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 14 | Each of the ‘ sentences ’ in the network only has meaning in terms of its relations to other sentences , and each of these sentences only has meaning in relation to others , and so on . |
| 15 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 16 | For this would obviously ensure pride of place for holist explanations . |
| 17 | It was a staple of the revenge tragedy as Kyd , Tourneur or Shakespeare conceived it , and plays by Dekker , Lyly , Webster , Ford and Middleton all made use of madness on stage , and of actors specially trained for the parts of madmen . |
| 18 | The critical chain length c is interpreted as representing the dividing point between chains which are too short to provide a significant contribution to η from entanglement effects and those large enough to cause retardation of flow by intertwining with their neighbours . |
| 19 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 20 | This may not always be the case — for example , in rapidly expanding populations , selection may favour reproductive rate at the expense of lifetime reproductive success ( see Lewontin , 1965 ; Elliot , 1975 ) — but exceptions are probably rare , especially in long-lived species where variation in longevity greatly exceeds variation in age at first breeding . |
| 21 | This policy gives them a much needed spread of risk of buyer and of export market and gives the policyholder the best ‘ rate on line ’ : ie the percentage ratio between the amount of premium and the level of cover provided . |
| 22 | It provided a much needed patch of light in an otherwise sombre room lit only by two silk-shaded sidelamps . |
| 23 | Comic disruption becomes a much needed gesture of resistance to prevailing conditions in America . |
| 24 | On Sept. 17 the politburo of the ruling Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) appointed Hor Nam Hong , hitherto Minister Assistant in charge of monitoring Foreign and Judicial Affairs , as Foreign Minister of the SOC in place of Premier Hun Sen [ see p. 37655 for August government and party appointments ] . |
| 25 | This chapter looks at how each of the different aspects of this strategy has been employed , not only to free money from welfare for tax cuts but also to gain an appreciation of the extent of the disenfranchisement from an insurance-based welfare that has occurred . |
| 26 | Children whose families come , for example , from the Caribbean , from countries in Africa or from the Indian subcontinent can greatly enrich discussion about English as a world language and about literature and drama as world concepts . |
| 27 | Bush promised legislation " this year " setting specific goals and timetables for the reduction of acid rain pollution , a long running source of disagreement between the two countries . |
| 28 | Obviously such strict separation of functions results in a much reduced level of conflict between pedestrian and vehicle and a consequent lowered accident rate . |
| 29 | However the changes that have taken place in society in recent decades , resulting in the rapid growth of youth unemployment , have also resulted in a greatly reduced importance of certification at 16+ for selection purposes . |
| 30 | Instead , Levy had simply assured Baker that Israel would not use the US funding in the occupied territories , and would henceforth share information regarding settlement with US officials . |