Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 2 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 3 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 4 | Still later there are codicils in which the testator addresses both the initial and substitute heirs , and entrusts them through another trust clause with payment of all dispositions : ‘ Lucius Titius to his initial and substitute heirs : greetings . |
| 5 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 6 | Fen was leaving the well-worn path now to fight a way for them through giant cow parsley and into a beechwood offering shelter from prying eyes . |
| 7 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 8 | The LRCs have a maximum speed of 200 km/h , but are limited to 155 km/h because of the need to timetable them between slower freight trains . |
| 9 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 10 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 11 | He knew nothing about blue water sailing . |
| 12 | ‘ I know nothing about any Sheffield Wednesday interest , ’ said Quinn . |
| 13 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |
| 14 | What we could choose to do if we wanted to keep them as that figure head and as a P R agency almost , we could pay them a specific salary , similar to other people who work in advertising industry |
| 15 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 16 | However , their resale value is generally poor , and it is advisable to consider them as good value furnishing items , rather than investment pieces . |
| 17 | Here the first thing to check is whether they are slips or not : if the pupil can correct his own errors , do n't count them as serious spelling miscues . |
| 18 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 19 | More than 50 women work at Long Lartin prison near Evesham in Worcestershire , 17 of them as uniformed prison officers . |
| 20 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 21 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 22 | Is not it possible to put many of those documents in the public domain and publish them as Public Accounts Committee documents ? |
| 23 | So it 's definitely the latter , we are developing a fully capable Eurofighter two thousand aircraft and if erm any of our four participating nations do not want a particular facility then we will make provision for them to leave that out in production and if an export customer does not require the full range of capabilities we can also remove them for that export customer . |
| 24 | The curriculum for most young people who have left school involves academic or vocational courses which prepare them for specific adult roles . |
| 25 | But , rather than pay cash , Novell will issue about 1.1 million new shares of Novell stock and trade them for existing USL stock . |
| 26 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 27 | On the other hand Mrs Thatcher has jealously maintained tax reliefs for homeownership and private pensions ( indeed , extended them for private health care for the over-60s ) and privatization of gas and telephones have done little to increase competition . |
| 28 | This would leave the bassist free to add little chordal colourings on the G and D. You could also use them for striking solo intro riffs , something they excel at , while adding a touch of stereo chorus provides an even sweeter sound . |
| 29 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 30 | They are thought to be the victims of fishermen , who blame them for meagre fish stocks . |