Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eden himself became more emotional , first as he waited for Churchill to stop teasing and bow out of Number 10 Downing Street , and later as his own premiership became increasingly plagued with problems at home and abroad . |
| 2 | It seems everyone is waiting for Strach to have 2 quiet games in order to start ending his career . |
| 3 | The panel also arranged for William to spend two half-days a week at child guidance . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , I hope you do n't mind my saying so , but I know Drew 's frite-fly keen for Perdita to get this scholarship . |
| 5 | Commentators such as Kelly see this meeting as a ‘ watershed ’ where the reformers lost their case . |
| 6 | Equally , MDC 's strategy for Vauxhall reflects Eldonian community proposals for an extensive mixed tenure housing development . |
| 7 | It had been useless for Denis to protest that Iron Josh was an outsider with no involvement in their cause one way or the other . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Garscadden said last week that he finds it incomprehensible that many properties may stay in the same band in perpetuity . |
| 9 | As potential applications for PCR develop more emphasis is being placed upon the practical aspects of the reaction . |
| 10 | Government figures for October-December showed real gross domestic product had fallen , by 1% , for the second consecutive quarter — the conventional definition of recession . |
| 11 | Just as well — for Francisco got lost . |
| 12 | Everything that was easy for Victoria seemed hard for her and she never understood why . |
| 13 | Radio Forth is running a series of commercials for Clarence commencing 26 July ( see this page ) . |
| 14 | Boroughs such as Lambeth need extra resources to provide the back-up . |
| 15 | Paul Reid caught the defence square with a perfect through ball from the halfway line for McCarthy to race clear and beat Prudhoe with a right foot shot . |
| 16 | Paul Reid caught the defence square with a perfect through ball from the halfway line for McCarthy to race clear and beat Prudhoe with a right foot shot . |
| 17 | If it is considered necessary to write to the police abroad then for EEC claims this will be done by the branches or handling agents and for the rest the file must be sent to H O Claims . |
| 18 | He would wait for Marcus to speak first . |
| 19 | Erm here 's a launch pad er for Patrick to earn substantial money , there are five companies there , ignoring the er area health authority er arena because we have n't got that up here , er which company do you think or which environment do you think you 'd be most comfortable in ? |
| 20 | While France was content for Germany to remain divided , it was concerned about its new neighbour , the Federal Republic of West Germany , not least about the rapid economic growth that had occurred there after a major currency reform in 1948 . |
| 21 | It is excessively formalistic to demand this acceptance in writing , for States make binding commitments through other modalities , such as unilateral declarations . |
| 22 | If it is in order for Dubček to grant federal autonomy to the Slovaks or Carpatho-Ukranians then what of the Soviet Ukraine ? ( the Politburo 's worry in 1968 ) ; if genuine trades unions are to be countenanced in Poland , how can they be proscribed in the Baltic republics and Belorussia ? ( the Politburo 's worry in 1980 ) . |
| 23 | The need for CPD seems common to most professions . |
| 24 | I believe that Taylor is still leaving the door open for Gazza to play some part against Norway in the opening World Cup tie at Wembley on October 14 — providing he comes through the ordeal of an Italian League baptism . |
| 25 | According to analysts , the reluctance to cut defence spending in the past , coupled with a shortage of viable development projects , meant that aid in excess of US$9,000 million earmarked for Pakistan remained undisbursed . |
| 26 | Minneapolis-based thick film microelectronic device maker HEI Inc has teamed up with chipmaker VTC Inc to provide miniaturisation packaging for the disk drive market on undisclosed terms : the pact calls for VTC to supply unpackaged read-write preamplifiers to HEI for mounting and connecting to miniature flex assemblies designed to save space and improve disk drive performance . |
| 27 | In addition to these three major sites of independent evolution , smaller islands such as Madagascar have interesting parallel stories of their own , which I shall not go into . |
| 28 | The German co-producers were shocked when they found that the contract for Melancholia gave this right to the BFI , since in Germany final cut is almost always given to the director . |
| 29 | The principles underlying the formula for GRE seem preferable in this respect . |
| 30 | The fund for Hungary mirrors that set up by Britain for Poland . |