Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 32 | However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible . |
| 33 | The impracticability of gaining the acceptance of the fractious Afghan groups opposing the DRA regime for a compromise formula based on the neutrality of Afghanistan certainly further discouraged Soviet leaders from taking proposals of this kind seriously . |
| 34 | At one of Lloyds most recently opened clubs , Lloyd 's Lanes , in Enfield , North London , you can even ten pin bowl your way to fitness and fun . |
| 35 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
| 36 | So then er er one morning the there was a very heavy swell on and the anchor must have given way and it w we saw the mine floating away towards Tiree so where it went after that we never heard . |
| 37 | I 'll get pictures of Mrs. just about to fall in the sea or something |
| 38 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 39 | I refer to public statements attributed to the President , the Secretary or other high Government officials in which various countries are named as especial objects of United States interest and concern , but from which the name of Korea very frequently is omitted . |
| 40 | The Bishops of Rochester now mostly lived at their Palace at Rochester or Lambeth , the houses at Halling and Trottescliffe being allowed to decay owing to the expense of maintaining them . |
| 41 | A final steep rise in the lane is littered by stones fallen from the walls ; these end suddenly to reveal a fine view of Ingleborough directly ahead , its massive dome seen across a wide depression occupied by the lonely dwelling of Crina Bottom in a walled enclosure among sheltering trees . |
| 42 | Looking ahead to tonight 's edition of Scotland Today now , let's cross to the newsroom . |
| 43 | With the opening of a new regional office in Glasgow , CCG is to target the west of Scotland more closely , and continue the company 's steady expansion in catering management . |
| 44 | Now that the by-election in Kincardine and Deeside has focused attention on the issue of Scotland once again , and with the continuing difficulties in establishing a democratic local administration in Ulster , will the Prime Minister consider initiating consultations with other parliamentary parties with a view to reaching agreement on common structures of government throughout the United Kingdom ? |
| 45 | They stay on stage to watch the play , with Petruchio 's manipulation of Katherine very obviously mirroring the tricks they are playing on poor Sly . |
| 46 | He felt the presence of Gerda so strongly he could n't finish . |
| 47 | And it would result in the Bank of England no longer having to support the pound . |
| 48 | However , since October 1986 this requirement has been abolished , the Bank of England no longer deeming it appropriate in the newly deregulated capital market . |
| 49 | The royal standard of England no longer fluttered on its pole , a sign that Henry and Wolsey had already departed with a small advance party though Doctor Agrippa had remained , waiting for us in our chamber . |
| 50 | Since 1981 a formally announced MLR has been abandoned , and the Bank of England no longer keeps discount houses deliberately short of liquidity as a matter of course . |
| 51 | This was the context in which John XXII told the king c.1318 that ‘ the state of ecclesiastical dignity is in the realm of England more notably depressed , or rather its liberty crushed , than in all other parts of the world ’ . |
| 52 | He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century . |
| 53 | " What makes the history of England so eminently valuable , " wrote T. H. Buckle , " is that nowhere else has the national progress been so little interfered with , either for good or evil . " |
| 54 | Not all problems have gone away of course : yesterday 's £6.4 billion public sector borrowing requirement is not much higher than expectations , but it is almost as large as the deficit for the previous 11 months and — with this year 's deficit forecast to be double last year 's — shows why the Bank of England so eagerly sold £2 billion or more of gilts on election night and why it needs a regular stream of massive sales . |
| 55 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 56 | From further and more systematic study of elections in the Republic of Ireland much else can be learned about the operation of the STV — and nothing reassuring , as the following pages will show . |
| 57 | However , fertility was higher where areas had high Irish or Roman Catholic populations ( Teitelbaum 1984 ) ; some parts of Wales , the Highlands of Scotland , and Ulster had later fertility declines ( the rest of Ireland much later ) and Wales and Scotland also retained distinctive marriage patterns . |
| 58 | An hour later we were locking out of Swansea once more . |
| 59 | Mac picked the ball up centre field , just inside the Sheff half , and ran with the ball diagonally towards Sheff right back position . |
| 60 | Julia , not wanting to have to think of Anthony any longer , got out of her chair and prowled about the big dark kitchen . |