Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits for 1991-92 have jumped £2m to £13.6m and its pubs total has rocketed from 376 to 532 . |
| 2 | From their written works it would appear that most psychologists up to about 1935 have assumed that these three things , separately or together , must constitute the whole of what we mean when we speak of a person feeling a touch as a touch on his shoulder or a pain as a pain in his foot . |
| 3 | Now that IBM Corp is in long-term decline , evolving into just another big company like Xerox Corp or General Motors Corp that has seen much better days , market-makers are looking for another bellwether to signal the direction of the entire market , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 4 | By contrast , restorative proctocolectomy for slow transit constipation is now no longer recommended as half have had their pouch excised because they were dissatisfied with the functional results . |
| 5 | Yet not all instances of theory replacement are quite so straightforward , for some have rumbled on for decades . |
| 6 | Though they lack a shell , they are not entirely defenceless , for some have acquired secondhand weapons . |
| 7 | However , the TNC-dominated export industries tend to employ more women than men.The reasons for this have stimulated a great deal of argument and it is not always possible to generalize cross-culturally . |
| 8 | The reasons for this seem to fall into three categories : ignorance of what solicitors can do on the part of potential clients and a lack of preparedness in pursuing legal action , that is apathy ; the public image of lawyers ; and barriers against use , in particular cost and accessibility . |
| 9 | The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it . |
| 10 | The Syrians had after all come to save the Christians . |
| 11 | The miners after all have lost . |
| 12 | His voice sounded unbelievably distant , cold , and she was very tempted to ignore it , but if she did that he would come in anyway , she knew that , and she did after all want to talk to him , did n't she ? |
| 13 | The brood sizes have been steadily increasing but we are still waiting for out oldest fry to start reproducing . |
| 14 | Since January their forecasts of economic growth for 1991 have grown gloomier in all but three countries — Japan and Spain ( where the forecast is unchanged ) and America ( where GNP is now expected to fall by 0.3% rather than 0.4% ) . |
| 15 | Research shows 60 per cent of those in homes over the age of 70 have impaired hearing , yet less than one-quarter have hearing aids . |
| 16 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 17 | So far , only 1,234 of 1,920 have entered into negotiations with universities for permanent positions and only 85 have been given contracts . |
| 18 | Most of the semaphores of 1980 have gone , virtually no large gantries remaining in total use . |
| 19 | There are fewer organisations in the market than hitherto ( although the demands of each have increased proportionately ) . |
| 20 | The profits of war were not to be found only in France : a grateful king rewarded his commanders with grants at home , and the wounds of 1341 seem to have been healed by success in war . |
| 21 | Mew modes of working have grown up round word processors , Apple Macs , data banks ( and now ) electronic cuttings services . |
| 22 | We obviously on top of that want to make sure who lives in the camps and see if they match our descriptions . |
| 23 | One passage ran : ‘ The battles of the Great Civil War of 1642–46 have captured the imaginations of the historians in plenty , while the sieges of the period have been largely neglected . |
| 24 | But regulatory and structural upheavals in the City ahead of and after the ‘ big bang ’ in the British securities markets of 1986 have sparked a revolution within the life insurance industry that the Pearl has often found difficult to keep up with . |
| 25 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 26 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 27 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 28 | However it claims the first three months of 1993 have proved profitable and reported that debt amounted to less than $3.3m . |
| 29 | Learners of English need to learn where is appropriate and where it is not . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |