Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I d I could only glanced at it as I drove past cos the traffic was moving fairly quickly for the lights there you know . |
2 | Even if we tabulate only those time-words and their associated tempos for the movements where there is unequivocal evidence for such tempos , in H400D and the two Strasbourg motets that is without relying on those movements calculated by reference to tempo relationships we see a remarkable degree of unanimity . |
3 | That done they were directed to the ACR counter at the end of the reception desk where an efficient young woman issued the petrol coupons and the vouchers for the hotels where they were booked in . |
4 | I says , and I 'm buying him a rack for the ones not in a box . |
5 | ( This idea was extended to prehistory by the social anthropologist A. van Gennep who , in 1909 , introduced the term les rites de passage for the rituals originally associated with such changes in the life of the individual . ) |
6 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
7 | Geographers are familiar with the concept of the central place — a locally or regionally important centre fulfilling a number of functions for the settlements around . |
8 | However in Tolkien 's view everything else in the poem would be wrong : its ferocity , its equation of God 's truth with protestantism , most especially its contempt for ‘ our fathers ’ before they were converted , for the Anglo-Saxons indeed . |
9 | Let them pay for the kebabs anyway . |
10 | It mattered not that Kite was beaten by Suzuki and Strange by Ozaki for the Americans already had an unassailable 3 ½ points on the board . |
11 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
12 | ‘ They can pay for the lorries out of that . ’ |
13 | Thenceforth his symphonic music inscrutably presented the emotions — albeit largely ironically — that the State expected from its leading composer while the quartets provided an outlet for the emotions within and for his personal responses to the event taking place in the world around him . |
14 | ‘ First , Hopkins was a monk , a Benedictine from Glastonbury but he also served as a chaplain for the Santerres here at Templecombe as well as for the outlying farms . |
15 | They do n't charge for the trolleys up there now do they ? |
16 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
17 | For the reasons just described . |
18 | In the case of television sets the wheel has turned full circle , from intensive distribution to selective distribution ( for the reasons just mentioned ) and back to intensive distribution . |
19 | This is very much a two-edged sword , since the only way that the beginner can prevent the model tipping over is to close the throttle , yet any sudden closing of the throttle is to be avoided , for the reasons already given . |
20 | These decisions are not , of course , subject to any effective process of democratic accountability and , for the reasons already outlined , these citadels of private economic power are themselves effectively beyond the pale of normal party political conflict . |
21 | The majority of those who were working lost their jobs for the reasons already detailed above . |
22 | For the reasons already given ( see Part I ) the death rates of infants provide a sensitive indicator of wider socio-economic changes . |
23 | For the reasons already expressed , these appeals are dismissed . |
24 | ‘ Whilst appreciating the simplicity of this approach , we think , for the reasons already set out , that the wording of the Act , coupled with the decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , does not allow us to adopt this solution . |
25 | Accordingly , for the reasons already given , I would dismiss the Crown 's appeal . |
26 | It would have been extremely interesting to repeat this exercise for a different two-year period , to see if any trends were apparent , but for the reasons already reported , such research can no longer be carried out . |
27 | Expressed in developmental , rather than structural terms , one can describe the condition of the citizens of total welfare states as childlike , for not only are they likely to be regressed in developmental terms for the reasons already given , they are also childlike in relative terms to the state which has become a parent , and an omnipotent one at that . |
28 | Expressed in developmental , rather than structural terms , one can describe the condition of the citizens of total welfare states as childlike , for not only are they likely to be regressed in developmental terms for the reasons already given , they are also childlike in relative terms to the state which has become a parent , and an omnipotent one at that . |
29 | In those circumstances it must follow , for the reasons already given , that the appellant can not establish his defence to the present claim . |
30 | Therefore , in accordance with equation ( 10.41 ) , but , for the reasons already given above , the equality extends to much larger signals and , when properly nulled Naturally this particular circuit is known as a voltage follower . |