Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pasteur was drawn into the field of bacteriology , of which he became the great pioneer ( together with Robert Koch [ 1843–1910 ] , a German country doctor ) , through industrial chemistry , more precisely the analysis of why beer and vinegar sometimes go bad , for reasons which chemical analysis could not reveal . |
| 2 | For support they both leant against the seat of an armchair . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what new initiatives he has to further policies of achieving transparency in the world arms trade . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what new initiatives he plans to curtail nuclear weapons proliferation . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received from farmers about compensation for the effects of low flying on livestock . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on the future of the Scottish regiments and battalions ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what further consultations he has had regarding ’ Options for Change ’ , in the light of the disintegration of the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | All the searcher 's other knowledge is in the form of rules about how best to apply this operator , and of facts about states which this operator can be applied to . |
| 10 | But they seemed to work for researchers whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry , neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory . |
| 11 | For instance one little boy started banging an oven door loudly , something he had not done before , and his grandmother looked at him delightedly saying ‘ Look , Ricky is playing the drums — give us a nice tune ’ . |
| 12 | This for him came to symbolize the futility of the war , which seemed to be fought for no discernible purpose , between opponents whose essential common humanity was denied by the mass slaughter . |
| 13 | c ) The impact of the recession — many argued that the recent increase in the number of defaults was linked directly to the current recession and to the cut-throat price competition between solicitors which this had precipitated . |
| 14 | In particular , the block exemption will not apply automatically to agreements between parties whose relevant aggregated market share exceeds 20 per cent of the relevant product market in the EC or a substantial part of it , and whose aggregate annual turnover exceeds 500 million ecu . |
| 15 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
| 16 | This is the basis of all imaginative acts , that through emotion something absent is brought into the present . |
| 17 | The Edinburgh side are now at full strength which is bad news for Kelburne whose international players , David Fowler and Michael Starling , have to readjust to the indoor set-up after their trip to Cairo last week with the Scottish outdoor squad . |
| 18 | He was in After Dark My Sweet and Rush |
| 19 | After lunch they all trooped back down to the beach with plastic bags and jars for specimens , and Carolyn lagged behind . |
| 20 | And when they went out again after lunch his 43-year-old son , also called Peter , aced the 180-yard seventh with a 4 iron . |
| 21 | Fond as she is of children , however , they are by no means her only interest . |
| 22 | But goat glands were by no means his only forte . |
| 23 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 24 | These climbs are recalled in Coming Through , Andy 's first but , I suspect , by no means his last book . |
| 25 | It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise . |
| 26 | One day just after breakfast they all gathered in the milk-house . |
| 27 | After dinner we all sat in the lounge , the camp supplied wine and Jerry supplied Scotch so we had a few drinks and said our farewells for the night and then back to our cabins were we slept on good mattresses . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough and Cleveland welcome back after injury their brilliant intermediate 300 metres hurdler Allison Curbishley , while newcomer Jocelyn Kirby , who won the 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles at the NorthEast Championships , will be making her club debut . |
| 29 | After coffee our final speaker was Dr Findlater who kept us all enthralled by his expertise and enthusiastic approach to the history of human anatomy . |
| 30 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |