Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland are expected to join the chase for Middlesbrough 's want-away striker Bernie Slaven . |
| 2 | IT 'S THE THRILL OF THE CHASE FOR MIDDLESBROUGH 'S FLYING LADY |
| 3 | ‘ Who employed there would know most about Hauser 's day-to-day work , the orders he gives ? ’ |
| 4 | The problem was complicated by the numerous copies after the picture , several of them being claimed as Antonello 's original , notably the version in the Institute of Arts , Detroit . |
| 5 | There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked : |
| 6 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 7 | But it is his talent as a designer of decorative furniture and domestic accessories that is mainly responsible for Fornasetti 's enduring renown . |
| 8 | Yet in practice justification by an imperative does not benefit from this logical advantage , is very much open to doubt ( indeed invites it , without a first principle such as Kant 's Categorical Imperative to save from appealing from imperative to imperative in an infinite regress ) , while the appeal to pleasure does not seem vulnerable to ethical scepticism at all . |
| 9 | MCI accredited programmes leading to these qualifications are offered through Henley 's Corporate Programmes Division and a number of Approved Centres . |
| 10 | Steve Woodward was regarded as NZ 's senior umpire after Fred Goodall retired . |
| 11 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 12 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 13 | Backing all this up is a studio system that churns out ‘ stars ’ for Televisa 's bland pop-music programmes and melodramatic but successful soap operas ( which are watched as far away as China and Russia ) . |
| 14 | She stuck out her darned leg , hoping to give an impression of genteel poverty , smiled so much her face ached and , despite Sukey 's warnings , found herself talking too much to compensate for Perdita 's bored indifference . |
| 15 | The on-costs on labour such as employers ' national insurance contributions , CITB levy , holidays with pay scheme and other more indirect on-costs such as allowances for severance pay and legislation affecting employment , sick pay , allowance for employer 's liability and third party insurance , will be processed through both the cost and financial accounts . |
| 16 | Recollections such as these provide excellent ammunition for arguing a case for Nizan 's growing disenchantment with the Soviet experiment and communism in 1934 . |
| 17 | Based in offices next to the city 's main Baptist Church , the ministry runs eight soup kitchens for Moscow 's poor and is one of the only charities to care for Aids patients and ex-prisoners . |
| 18 | A year or two later , I was talking to John Heminges about the costumes for Will 's new play , King John . |
| 19 | Later , she told Constance all about Jim 's new job . |
| 20 | The canals would also allow commodities such as coal , fuel oil , farm produce and timber to be transported between Venezuela 's industrial centres and the mineral- and forest-rich lands to the east and south . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the estimated cost to business if the lower earnings limit for employers ' national insurance contributions were abolished . |
| 22 | Instead an intelligence officer had ploughed through Mills ' personal effects and leafed through a random selection of files . |
| 23 | But just three days before the England selectors name their team for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's , Fletcher was not too concerned about Gower 's injury-enforced absence . |
| 24 | Unlike Princess Julie , the rest of the family spent their time in repeating malicious gossip about Eugénie 's past life , hinting that she had a more than dubious reputation , but their attitude in no way influenced the Emperor , except perhaps in a contrary sense . |
| 25 | Side-sheets for clubs ' existing mobile systems are available , plus a complete recovering service . |
| 26 | Such problems are far off for Rugby 's Spiritualized , though their first LP is the toast of the rock press at the moment : a spacey , dreamy , bubbling mantra of introspection and buried tunes that is quite captivating . |
| 27 | Running through Gassendi 's forthright rejection of the Aristotelian apparatus of definitions of ‘ forms ’ and syllogistic demonstration of scientific knowledge , is something more positive . |
| 28 | In a sale otherwise notably short of good material , Zurich dealer Ernst Beyeler paid £1.4 million ( $2.1 million ) for Vuillard 's fine and richly decorated interior scene ( lot 20 , est. £1.5–2 million ) and £560,000 ( $840,000 ) for a superb gouache by Paul Klee ( lot 26 , est. £300,000–400,000 ) . |
| 29 | Bells ring out for cyclists ' safe return |
| 30 | In contrast , very little business of substance is transacted through Moscow 's resident NSWP ambassadors , whose postings are little more than sinecures . |