Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People may shout , mouth words , wave their arms about or feel generally inadequate and give up . |
| 2 | starting just past the river and continuing farther than the places I had names for or had ever seen . |
| 3 | The work plan timetable will highlight specific requirements which must be either budgeted for or planned as appropriate . |
| 4 | It was largely based on the design for S. Sernin in Toulouse and was started after but completed earlier than the French church ( 423 ) . |
| 5 | The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder or at his request such other person as may be the owner of any rug clothing or personal effect against loss of or damage thereto by fire theft or attempted theft or by accidental means while in or on any motor car described in the Schedule |
| 6 | We needed a word processor that anybody could sit in front of and use quickly and easily . |
| 7 | Fucking … it 's the thing the human race does most of and says least about . |
| 8 | ‘ The local authority sought orders from the court by which the perpetrator of the abuse would be forbidden to have contact with the children , a process approved of and followed previously by judges and local authorities throughout the country . ’ |
| 9 | Ensuring a multicultural approach in schools is one way we can make sure children are aware of and respond positively to diversity . |
| 10 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 11 | As part of the audience you are as much a part of the entertainment as the performance itself , and this is something that dramatists are aware of and have always written for . |
| 12 | Furthermore , if the components of two tensors can be shown to be equal in a particular coordinate system , i.e. then because the corresponding components of and transform identically the equality holds for all coordinate frames including , of course , accelerating frames . |
| 13 | The mechanics , the in-house mechanics , which are nothing to do with the backbenchers , which they know nothing of and understand even less . |
| 14 | Thus , these roads are now in the neighbourhood of and lead immediately to a commercial port which operates 24 hours per day . |
| 15 | The dog-whelks first bred three years after being themselves laid as eggs , but at different sizes according to their habitat-16 mm at Purcell 's Cove and 20 mm at Laurencetown ( a discrepancy that Hughes ascribed to the differential availability of prey-but see above and p. 320 ) . |
| 16 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 17 | It was a question of whether to turn away with tears in her eyes , admitting failure , or giving Amsterdam a taste of her temper . |
| 18 | Each subtractive primary can be thought of as taking away a component from white ; thus yellow is , ‘ minus blue ’ and magenta is ‘ minus green ’ so a mixture of yellow and magenta inks will produce white minus blue minus green — in other words , red . |
| 19 | In no way is the process conceived of as moving sequentially along the lines of print ’ ( Chapman , 1987 , p.6 ) . |
| 20 | Brightness masking can be thought of as operating primarily at the feature detector level in Figure 11 ; by reducing the discriminability of target features , it makes feature detection difficult ( or impossible , if the mask is bright enough ) . |
| 21 | The situation is quite similar therefore to that with the verbs of perception , which explains why Kruisinga and Erades ( 1960 : 366 ) have pointed out that " the perception or causing is thought of as happening simultaneously with what is perceived or caused " . |
| 22 | Instead , each of us is thought of as starting more or less from scratch and the philosophical questions are how we can come from such a state , via our awareness of the passing show of sensory experience , to the sophisticated knowledge which we all have as members of a modern society . |
| 23 | This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling . |
| 24 | It is true that not every subject or application yielded work we thought matched the excellence we hoped for and had already found in some areas . |
| 25 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 26 | They can be used , for example , to organize the evidence for and justify morally one or other theory of development or the lack of development . |
| 27 | Such passages ( at least outside the Constitution on the Liturgy ) are remarkably rare , but there are a few which called for and obtained almost immediate implementation in a way that introduced significant new dimensions into Church life . |
| 28 | Clench the jaws , as if chewing hard , while pushing your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth . |
| 29 | The leaves in the canopy trembled in the breeze , as if conversing soundlessly . |
| 30 | They went to big hotels as if determined never again to experience anything like this house wedding in all their mortal lives . |