Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [det] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Having enjoyed a remarkable degree of freedom for several years it was now hard to relinquish areas of control .
2 In preparing the timetables for these services we sought to meet the objectives of providing a series of connections between buses from central Livingston and trains to and from Edinburgh .
3 And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor !
4 On registration by the company a buyer receives a new certificate and the seller a balance certificate for any shares he retains .
5 The problem is , when you have conducted a piece for many years you have a knowledge of the interior musical structures that are closed to most theatre directors .
6 She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for .
7 Lawyers agree on certain abstract formulations of these conventions they agree that legislation and precedent are , in principle ; sources of law .
8 Without an appreciation of these norms it is almost impossible to make sense , let alone describe , much of the conduct which characterises our mutual involvements .
9 As a result of these developments it is possible to make three claims regarding the miracles in the Synoptic Gospels :
10 As a result of these cases it is clear that relatively small differences in the drafting of a rent review clause may have great practical consequences .
11 As a result of these changes it has become possible , among other things , to show more of the male and female body .
12 As a result of these pressures we are forced to modify somewhat our style of approach in order to shed light upon certain aspects of our main topic which have remained unexplored hitherto , but this modification of style , as will become clearer in the sequel , does not invalidate our earlier approach , but rather structurally complements it .
13 John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland .
14 Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover .
15 Waddington stated in a written parliamentary reply on April 4 , 1990 , that following his study of such documents he had concluded that the removal had been based on straightforward facts .
16 So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred .
17 This was a side of both women he had never seen , although Charley could have enlightened him .
18 In the light of these findings it is important that Crohn 's disease and the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome are excluded in patients with H pylori negative DU who are not taking NSAIDs .
19 In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes .
20 Nevertheless , in the light of these considerations it is hard to escape the impression that , like the Venus of Willendorf , or the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus , the modern welfare state has become the re-embodiment of the primal mother , the abstract , secular , bureaucratic equivalent of the mother-as-breast .
21 From examining the shapes of these graphs it would appear that increasing the size of the corpus would have only a small effect on the percentage of bigram transitions found .
22 With the aid of such measurements it will be possible to accurately observe the behaviour of matter and produce a statement of cause and effect .
23 In view of the increased prevalence of osteoporosis and high rates of bone loss in some patients we feel that all postmenopausal women with inflammatory bowel disease should be considered for HRT , particularly in those with extensive disease of those requiring longterm corticosteroid treatment .
24 This herb has tiny leaves here , and is furiously strong : I made tea from some herbs I picked , put in a generous sprig of peppermint , and spat out the result in shock .
25 After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again .
26 Er but as I say , I was n't very long at that so er when I came back to the , the motor trade , and bicycle trade , motor trade , cars in these days you get a variety of er all sorts of cars .
27 ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’
28 In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c .
29 To apply the framework of attention focusing to the data from these studies it is necessary to make some assumptions about the information that is central and peripheral in the stimuli .
30 By the " permanence " of true-kin relationships in both models I refer to the fact that if two individuals consider themselves to be true kinsmen their kinship will persist in latent form even if they do not interact with one another at all for years on end .
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