Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The family brought every scrap of evidence or information they could find to the RUC , but that much prayed for breakthrough in the case never came .
2 This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success .
3 This would sometimes draw Laura in and she would spring tigerishly to Bernard 's defence , especially if some long dreamed of project of his was under threat through lack of cash .
4 This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] …
5 But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual .
6 Another doggedly persisted in identification along the lines of ‘ … it looks a bit like an animal … four footed — the shape — the middle …
7 Infants were originally barred by the Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 but some nevertheless sat without challenge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .
8 This usually leads to removal of the effect of any repeating pattern such as a 2 , 5 or 0 in the last digit because every digit in the number divided is involved in the division , and so may be altered .
9 This usually happened after lunch on the day following their arrival .
10 The fee for this usually comes as part of the crematorium fee .
11 Some always go for a drink at the pub with their friends on Friday nights , some always go to Bingo on Thursday nights , and so on .
12 Now we have This rise in income from period t to period t + 1 will cause both consumption and investment in the next period , period t + 2 , to rise : This further rise in income from period t + I to t + 2 will cause consumption and investment in period t + 3 to rise yet again :
13 Erm , my , my question particularly is , does this also come under sort of , traffic accidents ?
14 This also looks like anticipation of the ch , so it was probably a slip rather than a misspelling .
15 Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ .
16 This probably corresponds to location of the metal binding domain over the scissile bond , with the bithiazole and terminal amine aligned in either the 3'- or 5'- direction .
17 Talcott Parsons argues that this inevitably leads to inequality in terms of power and prestige .
18 This originally appeared as part of a Fabian Women 's Group report based upon research from 1909 – 13 into the daily lives of families living in Lambeth .
19 This often results in confusion about the committee 's precise remit and a lack of focus in its operations .
20 The Joint Women 's Programme , which is a corporate member of WACC , is deeply concerned about the wrong portrayal of women in the media , particularly since this often leads to violence against women and emphasises their inferior status .
21 This almost led to grounding of the plane but replacement with an incompatible elastomer made from ethylene-propylene copolymer rectified the fault .
22 For the other metals there was little further decrease in contamination after the third collection .
23 Occasional complaints come from the presence of lead in water , usually through dark lead sulphide staining , but these generally arise from contact with lead or solder on the plant and rarely from contamination of the water , although this could occur when very soft water is in contact with new lead piping .
24 The fry are born with large black eyes , but these steadily reduce in size over a period of weeks until they are covered with a cartilaginous sheath .
25 A piece of ecological history that remains to be fully researched was the decision by a number of individuals , many apparently working in isolation from each other , to establish , like Darwin , permanent plots within which the fate of individual plants could be recorded over time .
26 Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads .
27 There 's no silicone sealer holding the pieces together — they 're all carefully balanced on top of each other .
28 The value of the latter often comes from relevance to managerial concerns , but its immediacy can often drive out its usefulness as a source of learning .
29 Despite the power many potentially exercise by virtue of their oil resources , developing countries as a whole could only increase their share of exports from 4.6 per cent in 1970 to 7.1 per cent in 1983 , leaving many as dumping grounds for the surplus capacity in OECD countries ( UNIDO , 1985 ) .
30 He proceeded down the aisle towards the fallen cross , that now lay in front of the altar , before stopping over the dead German officer and continuing until he came face to face with Tommy , who was still holding a pistol pointing straight at his heart .
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