Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the man shook his head , he looked at his watch as if yet another important appointment awaited him , and strutted off . |
| 2 | On the basis of this schema it can be argued that the high-water mark of class/party correlation in the 1960s , registered above , was not so much related to the current policies of the political parties , as to the ‘ delayed ’ effect of the social conditions of the interwar depression years and the substantial shifts within popular ideology and political alignment during and immediately after the second world war . |
| 3 | On May 16 , 1989 , the CPSU central committee 's commission on legal policy called for better co-ordination between and more decisive action from the Interior and Justice Ministries and from the Procuracy . |
| 4 | I have often wondered if the torture I suffered left permanent damage for although only 5′ 10″ in height , my reach is 6′ 3″ . |
| 5 | Most of the characterization is effected by the recitative , which varies from the driest quick quasi-parlando — Monteverdi sometimes writes only a single sustained note to carry eight or nine syllables — to actual melody , with every nuance between and naturally plenty of scope for his stile concitato . |
| 6 | Charles bit on his lower lip and looked to the side as if there he would find the answer to the question ; then shook his head , saying , ‘ You know , I could n't say . ’ |
| 7 | Thunder exploded , roll after roll after roll , so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment . |
| 8 | The additional bicarbonate ( 15% ) , derived from organic matter oxidation , could be due to the metabolism of as yet unknown Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms , or , given that the concretions contain some FeS , to the activity of SRB like Desulfobacter . |
| 9 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 10 | Lyn brought tea in and then supper on two trays . |
| 11 | because my superintendent from Anglesey , she was superintendent from as well you see . |
| 12 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 13 | No , these days I 'm concentrating on passing my motorcycle test — a complex business , even if you have been driving a car on and sometimes off the road for nigh on 20 less than accident-free years . |
| 14 | I think the stress and strain on the bearings for instance , the the middle bearing of it was underrated to carry that amount of weight , not in the vertical sense but in the yawing to and fro . |
| 15 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 16 | Over the last 20 years or so , the growing youngster has not simply had to edge his way to acceptance by the adult community as one of them : he has had to gain entry to and then leave a comparatively regulated teenage society in addition . |
| 17 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 18 | Without doubt even the novice can do that , since just by moving the carriage to and fro metres of lovely smooth knitting can be produced with very little effort . |
| 19 | I 'd put the Crow Road folder in a Tesco bag , and walked back to our flat under grey skies and through a mild and swirling wind , swinging the carrier to and fro , and whistling . |
| 20 | A strategy of developing centres of growth , alternative to and well clear of London was selected , to be achieved in two ways . |
| 21 | Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods . |
| 22 | The episode of the ‘ enchanting Isobel Fitton ’ being swung in her hammock by and then dancing with Richard Arnold . |
| 23 | In discussing the boundary alignment of as yet unresolved sectors " some " progress was reported , and the two sides pointed out the " great significance " of the May 1989 Sino-Soviet summit to the border talks . |
| 24 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 25 | In 1953 , such a territory was alien , almost invisible , a schizo-world of as yet unimagined pleasure ; yet today it is disturbingly familiar , this condition described by Jameson as living ‘ in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve ’ . |
| 26 | They force us to choose between being a part of or apart from the world of our everyday living . |
| 27 | I have suggested that there are two threads running through Christian practice , the thread of integration and that of separation , of being a part of and apart from . |
| 28 | Erm in Plato talks about the , the weaving together of forms and it says erm er it 's it 's er through the weaving together of forms that reason arises in us and but then again this is the level of as well so I think that this is the , the origin of this notion that all the forms are in each , they 're all woven together somehow . |
| 29 | This is the exact opposite of and neither more nor less correct than the practise adopted in civil engineering analysis of soils and aggregates . |
| 30 | A fumy miasma masked glow-globes , reddening the scene as if here was the lurid sunset of the heart of this city before final night consumed and extinguished it . |