Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they just seemed to know how to go about things a hell of a lot better than we did . |
| 2 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 3 | SEEING FOR MILES A story of love , devotion and miracles |
| 4 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 5 | Moreover , popular schools would seldom be able to accommodate as pupils the children of all parents who wanted to send them there . |
| 6 | In Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon Brooke-Rose reappropriates for women the role of one whose relation to language is both active and passive , that of the producer as well as the means of production . |
| 7 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 8 | Voluntary arrangements under the terms of Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 provide for individuals a procedure akin to that which administration provides for companies . |
| 9 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 10 | By the urbanity of his almost patrician deportment , Coleman tended greatly to raise the standard of the profession in public esteem , and he powerfully contributed to obtain for veterinarians the grade of commissioned officers in the army . |
| 11 | OUR nation has pursued for decades the policy that has substituted machines and technology for human lives . |
| 12 | In 4.2 we discussed the way in which a hierarchical rank structure may be posited for various discourse types and considered as examples the internal structure of a series of books and a trial . |
| 13 | The former meaning may be loosely paraphrased as : ( 26 ) one of the feats commonly expected of acrobats The second meaning can not be paraphrased by ( 26 ) . |
| 14 | Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time . |
| 15 | There was further disruption in the Lok Sabha on Aug. 14 as Congress ( I ) members protested against events the previous day when BJP workers were alleged to have attacked Scindia 's house in New Delhi . |
| 16 | A pharmaceutical salesperson will discuss with doctors the problems which have arisen with patient treatment ; perhaps an ointment has been ineffective or a harmful side-effect has been discovered . |
| 17 | The amiable Downpatrick man will beam into living-rooms every Friday throughout the autumn from September 17 . |
| 18 | The Committee developed proposals for a scheme making it obligatory for members in practice to be insured , considered with insurers the implications of low fees and contributed to developments towards harmonisation in the EC . |
| 19 | Obviously a great deal will depend on the ability the clergyman to communicate in ways the family find helpful so that they feel they are central to these arrangements . |
| 20 | Typical statements of intent included : to encourage in pupils an understanding of the interrelatedness of knowledge to ameliorate the compartmentalisation of the subject-centred curriculum ( School L ) |
| 21 | On the other hand , other studies indicate that , if parents wish to encourage in children an ability to care about what happens to other people , they need to point out clearly and forcefully to their offspring , when young , the consequences of being unkind and aggressive . |
| 22 | The more that you know about what is normal and expected in diseases the easier it will be to evaluate the Peculiars . |
| 23 | The reading and writing of whole numbers was looked at by asking pupils to write in numerals a number presented in words . |
| 24 | Nearly one-third of the citizens of Leningrad are said to suffer from diseases the upper respiratory tract as a result of atmospheric pollution . |
| 25 | Chauvinism , local and national , lies at the heart of hooliganism and England fans seem to find in foreigners a convenient target fur a vague resentment at Britain 's diminished place in the world . |
| 26 | Every society requires its witnesses : those who are not afraid to render and preserve in words the range and scope of human experience for that time and that place . |
| 27 | Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ . |
| 28 | This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream . |
| 29 | The maturing of British cinema between 1939 and 1945 is often seen as a particular response to the conditions of wartime , when filmmakers were called upon to communicate to audiences an idea of ‘ what we are fighting for . ’ |
| 30 | The Conservative government has been sympathetic to these concerns and has launched a fierce rhetorical offensive against social liberalism , initiating or supporting measures designed to police the moral boundaries . |