Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ? |
| 2 | Meredith craned her neck and saw behind her an even older notice announcing a trio of public hangings , two of them for offences which in some circumstances would not even have warranted a custodial sentence today . |
| 3 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people |
| 4 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people , stretching from well north of the arctic circle to the Mediterranean . |
| 5 | In a development with far-reaching implications , USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin on Aug. 1 agreed jointly to sponsor a commission of experts which within one month would " draft a concept for the transition to a market economy " . |
| 6 | Right , so the quantity supplied right , let's just say , as a function of price of X , the prices of other products , Y , right , to N , prices of inputs one to N , er , what other things can we include ? |
| 7 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 8 | There was only one game of billiards itself in progress , every other table rattling to the scatter of the reds and colours of snooker . |
| 9 | Her father had been the successful owner of a chain of garages who in his youth had also raced . |
| 10 | No , they might be on the dole or what they used to call the Board of Guardians something like that . |
| 11 | In the previous chapter we saw how anthropology was sometimes used by them to show the historical particularity of institutions which under capitalism were represented as eternal . |
| 12 | ‘ Common people worship a variety of icons which for purposes of practicality represent various attributes and aspects of a supreme Godhead . |
| 13 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 14 | And they 're the kind of books which in a way encapsulated people 's views of what history was , the history of this country was , at that particular point in time . |
| 15 | and that sort of imprints it on you . |
| 16 | Now er we we already had a license for an earlier version of EARS which in er in fact was in Aled 's name from the last general election but one . |
| 17 | The panel hopes now that this statement of faith can be seen as a useful and fairly accessible indicator to outsiders as to what the faith is all about , and at the same time as a ring of words which at least the majority of us within the church can happily affirm . |
| 18 | Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms . |
| 19 | This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry . |
| 20 | The notes are pertinent to the exhibition , but left me slightly disquieted : the style of writing is , appropriately , neither fact not fiction , but this allows her to make shifts through sleights of words which in more academic circumstances would beg fuller exposition . |
| 21 | But in promoting it to MPs we 've been drawing their attention to the kinds of organizations which in turn in their eyes just sort of represent that pyramid or structure of votes that . |
| 22 | The Minister had planned a speech of thanks himself during a visit to Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but Adis Avdic stole his thunder . |
| 23 | The key is fast access to all information and integration : the ability to provide almost limitless permutations of information combinations — fees by fee-earner by job , profitability by industry sector , the number of clients who like two spoonfuls of sugar in their morning coffee — the possibilities are endless . |
| 24 | These petty morals , partly overlapping , form a cascade of precepts none of which amounts to anything more than a trite platitude . |
| 25 | Polished pyramids of apples and pears , still-life arrangements of humble carrots and potatoes , hillocks of pale butter topped with parsley trees , cut flowers in superannuated tins green-painted — and a cast of salesmen who in England would have found employment only once a year , in pantomime . |
| 26 | His total of eight stolen bases in the A's 4-1 series victory was a post-season record , he scored eight runs in total and even managed a couple of homers himself in Saturday 's 6-5 win in the SkyDome . |
| 27 | Mutual funds ( unit trusts in Britain ) have become big shareholders in France , but few are run by independent groups ; most are subsidiaries of banks which in turn can influence decisions during bids . |
| 28 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |
| 29 | Most animals show societal organizations that are the expression of the social responses of individuals one to another . |
| 30 | By a process of mutual choice , referral back and elimination a number of names is arrived at of individuals who by reputation are assumed by those who should know to have power in the community . |