Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are sometimes used as substitutes for oxide glasses in , for example , aircraft windows . |
| 2 | Often called inarching , and used to unite pot-grown plants and for grafting tomatoes on to rootstocks . |
| 3 | ‘ Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths , but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs , that it may benefit those who listen . ’ |
| 4 | Lack of funds through University cut-backs along with his own lack of paper qualifications made it impossible for the Universities to continue employing him . |
| 5 | Each has a ‘ magic hand ’ , a manipulator which swings from vertical , for fishing tapes out of stacks , to horizontal , for slotting them into players . |
| 6 | Hans Weber , a frail , piercingly blue-eyed Swiss , had been a sea-captain here in the early 1900s specializing in smuggling Bird of Paradise feathers back to Europe when they were all the rage for ladies ' hats . |
| 7 | She did not try on the apricot chiffon , with panels of silver beads back and front , some of them loosened , some vanished away as though a bead-eating insect had been at it . |
| 8 | If you bought her four lots of tea bags out of your ten pound yesterday , that correct ? |
| 9 | The project involves the coordination of research terms in about twenty countries , most of them where English is the first language of the majority of the population or an official second language . |
| 10 | to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph above ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of £53 256 906 . |
| 11 | to the allotment [ otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph [ a ] above ] of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,350,000 ; |
| 12 | B. ‘ That , subject to the passing of Resolution A , before this meeting , the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 24 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 to allot equity securities ( as defined by section 23 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by such resolution as if sub-section ( 1 ) of the said Section 23 did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders and to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to a rights issue as aforesaid ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of IR£1,772,100 . |
| 13 | The pot-holed drive seemed endless and dustier than before , with the fine show of spring flowers over . |
| 14 | The point made by Mr Bishop about employment , shopping and other land I also wish to respond to , I think one of the other participants did mention the issue of existing provision , it 's been quite clear from the work of the Greater York authorities that certainly shopping terms there is an oversupply of shopping companies in and around the edge of the urban area at the present time , we have a number of major outstanding consents which have not yet been taken up . |
| 15 | In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries . |
| 16 | She drooped miserably into the farmhouse , dropping her bag of rehearsal clothes on to the floor . |
| 17 | I took the book and a supply of ballpoint pens back in February . |
| 18 | Looters carried clothes out of shop windows along with anything else they could lay their hands on . |
| 19 | Eddie I think is worth sheer sort of opening teams up . |
| 20 | If pay settlements in the private sector continue to decelerate to 2 per cent and the underlying rate of inflation edges up to around 3.75 per cent by the end of this year when the effects of cheaper mortgages start working their way out of consumer budgets , there is little doubt that many individuals will find their real disposable incomes squeezed . |
| 21 | Settled weather anchorages only , with lots of day anchorages around . |
| 22 | It would be cheaper for the government to subsidise the employment of widget makers up to the cost of having that person registered unemployed , rather than the company using automated technology . |
| 23 | SO , airshow organisers , air rallyers , fly-in-ists , air racers , balloonatics , all of you in the throes of planning the 1993 calendar — help to put tens of thousands of FlyPast readers out of their misery . |
| 24 | An example of a network from the level of education officers down to practising teachers is currently in the process of being cemented between Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Oxfordshire and Wiltshire . |
| 25 | the targeting of development funds on to school-based priorities ; and |
| 26 | You know you tend to find there are a couple of fiddle factors around actually . |
| 27 | And you know you try and sort of block things out . |
| 28 | If Batty is ruled out , Rocky joins the queue of quality midfielders along with Gordon Strachan , Steve Hodge and fellow new-boy Scott Sellars . |
| 29 | He reached in and wrenched the little bundle of plastic bands out of my hands , and I sat there , silent , watching as he fumbled the bands into position with the little cup to hold the weapon under his right armpit . |
| 30 | Indeed , as the recent concerns of trade unions in , for example , the health services and in social security suggest , there seems to be a growing ‘ rank and file ’ interest in policy . |