Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 2 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 3 | These may be provoked by the lowered self esteem that many suffer as a result of teasing and criticism by peers , parents , and teachers . |
| 4 | Let us pray for all who suffer as a result of war : |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 6 | If the match at the County Ground is anywhere near as fast and lose as the game at London Road , then the Swindon fans are in for a thriller . |
| 7 | They distinguish between the function of language as imparting meaning , ‘ making statements which can be assigned a set of truth conditions ’ ( ibid. ) , and its function of regulating and maintaining social or interpersonal relations between people . |
| 8 | Distinguish between the demand for bank lending and the demand for money . |
| 9 | Any firm decisions on holding early elections to a new legislature ( the Seimas ) were blocked in June by the political split which had repeatedly left the current legislature , the Supreme Council , inquorate as a result of boycotts . |
| 10 | Equally , with the use of appropriate figures , it would show that CDs become more liquid , the nearer they get to maturity , i.e. the nearer to maturity they get , the smaller is the loss or gain as a result of changes in prevailing yields . |
| 11 | I can see this light shining from the side , so I squeeze through a couple of trolleys to see if I can get out that way . |
| 12 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 13 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 14 | Fear about the impact of Ecstasy on health is growing . |
| 15 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 16 | Eyes front for a feast of steam ! |
| 17 | To use another metaphor , if the world of education becomes a jungle of market forces , I fear for the survival of children with special needs . |
| 18 | They cost about 50 pence each to make , but sell for an average of £12.99 . |
| 19 | ‘ You mean for a consultation about Edwin 's health ? ’ |
| 20 | In deciding what words mean for the purpose of defamation , the intention of the writer or speaker is largely irrelevant . |
| 21 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 22 | But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . |
| 23 | In this project we shall examine what preconceptions teenagers have about driving and how these preconceptions change as a functions of age and first-hand experience of driving . |
| 24 | Staff need , however , to strike a delicate balance between giving optimistic support and encouragement on the one hand and accepting on the other that some individuals do not wish to , or can not , change as a result of disability and may need to be helped , therefore , to cope with permanent social impairments and distressing symptoms . |
| 25 | ‘ Too-much change for the sake of change . |
| 26 | And both these books pale before novels that contend for the mantle of Disraeli : those of Jeffrey Archer himself . |
| 27 | Apart from the elderly living alone , married couples predominate as the type of household containing elderly people in need of care … |
| 28 | Though parts were altered in the seventeenth century , the Tudor Great Hall , entrance court and river façade remain as a tribute to Cardinal Wolsey 's foresight and taste . |
| 29 | Iosif 's tomb in The Kremlin Wall may be hard to find , but the camps remain as a headstone in perpetuity to his memory . |
| 30 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |