Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 2 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 3 | Soon the seascape seemed to be occupied by nothing but the two great ships clamped together , with a web of men and weapons passing glittering from the one to the other . |
| 4 | They may be issued or modified by anyone with the requisite permission ( see Section 6 of this manual ) , who also has the appropriate access rights . |
| 5 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman should ask Neath borough council why , when money has been available , it has not applied for anything in the past two years . |
| 7 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 8 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 9 | On the flickering screen just to the right , light suddenly reflected from something in the black hole of the cell-like room . |
| 10 | All this though was some way from any quantitative expression of conservation of ‘ energy ’ — a term first used in something like the modern scientific sense by Thomas Young at the beginning of the century . |
| 11 | It is recommended that modules in this state are not formally issued from LIFESPAN , although they may be read and used by anyone with the appropriate access rights . |
| 12 | In the end , the dominance of the professionals can be seen by the fact that five of their number emerged with two wins out of two ( Alliss , Clark , Garner , Dawson and Guy Hunt ) compared to none from the amateur side . |
| 13 | The missed cues , the botching of business , the somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilling authority of Hook and the strutting Peter , unearthly yet real of Mary Deare . |
| 14 | RICHMOND Golf Club produced a remarkable family double when Peter Hughes and his son both holed in one on the same day . |
| 15 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 16 | Nothing was entered by anyone under the fifth , ‘ Other ’ choice . |
| 17 | She clicked her false teeth together , and announced with something of the normal snap in her voice that she was going to call Margaret right now . |
| 18 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 19 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
| 20 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 21 | The deferential tone , and the fact that it 's couched as a letter rather than as a minute , suggest that it was directed to someone outside the Civil Service . |
| 22 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 23 | This latter feature is , however , radiantly bestowed on everyone by the charismatic Norton . |
| 24 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 25 | Their world-view was essentially animatistic : every living thing and every outwardly inanimate thing too was a part of the living cosmos , and therefore imbued with something of the divine spirit . |
| 26 | In other words , the potentialities of the medium were not explored to anything like the same extent' ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 27 | The words must be uttered by someone with the necessary authority , in a country in which there is a death penalty , to a person who has been convicted of a particular crime ; they must be spoken , not written , at the right time ( at the end of a trial ) and in the right place ( in court ) . |
| 28 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 29 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |
| 30 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |