Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory turned her attention to the road ahead , gripped by two almost equally powerful temptations — the first being to take her hands off the wheel and shake Candy by the shoulders for being so infuriating . |
| 2 | Now living in Miami Beach , he is back behind the wheel and enjoying life in Indy Car racing in the United States . |
| 3 | It operates on the rear wheels only , by applying the brakes to the spinning or slipping wheel and transferring torque to the other side of the axle . |
| 4 | HOLLYWOOD has stopped being the dream factory and instead become the poison factory , challenging conventional notions of decency , undermining the family , ridiculing religion and promoting contempt for authority . |
| 5 | Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it . |
| 6 | how we would accommodate much more with a very tight greenbelt on the erm the sites that we 've actually allocated on our side of Ryedale and take account of greenbelt so . |
| 7 | During the Gulf conflict he was president of Hartlepool Gulf Troops Support Group , and he is chairman of the Northern Area Parliamentary Candidates ' Association and press officer for the Conservative Group on Cleveland county council . |
| 8 | The RSPCA was founded on the concept of preventing cruelty , promoting kindness and alleviating suffering in animals . |
| 9 | Edward then catalogued the stock and took charge of the paperwork while Phil touted for business , fetched and carried . |
| 10 | Second , examining the stock and gathering information on the pattern of use so that this can be used later at the ordering stage . |
| 11 | I went to the pond and threw bread to the ducks — ‘ Stuff your |
| 12 | Master Peter was a papal subdeacon and notary and had access to the papal registers so that the pope felt confident that the collection might be used , as he put it , " without any scruple of doubt " . |
| 13 | The meteorological factors that produce abnormal patterns of atmospheric circulation and suppress rainfall over eastern Australia are difficult to isolate . |
| 14 | ‘ Not one per cent here and a half per cent there , but a cut which will give small businesses an immediate boost and spread confidence throughout the economy . |
| 15 | However , most contemporary football hooliganism corresponds to the outlawry of time-out forms manifested in fights between opposing fans and creating mayhem during trips abroad . |
| 16 | To thwart that , Koch 's America syndicate put on a new keel and removed ballast from the namesake boat , using the mid-series mode-change permitted under the barter agreement reached with Conner . |
| 17 | A vegetable rinse disguised any grey hairs and gave shine to her new style . |
| 18 | Their destination was Ameland , an island off the northern coastline and home to AME-1 , an extraction and processing plant for gas from an offshore field . |
| 19 | He managed to turn inside his assailant and opened fire from 200 yards , seeing white vapour trail from the Messerschmitt as it pulled away . |
| 20 | The old woman might become hysterical again and renew her accusations about Joseph , or she might follow Rain 's own reasoning and link Maurin with the attack at the museum and Sabine Jourdain 's murder . |
| 21 | Blake was then posted as an MI6 officer to the British Legation in Seoul , Korea where in 1950 he and other members of the legation staff were captured by the North Koreans and held prisoner until the spring of 1953 . |
| 22 | In no way put out , he said , ‘ In that case , you 'll be able to return his ring and write finito to the episode . ’ |
| 23 | A manual focus ring and zoom lever for fast operation and minimum drain on battery . |
| 24 | A £46,000 grant to keep Cleveland 's Ring and Ride service on the road is to be met from the county council 's light rail transit budget . |
| 25 | Arrange rice in a ring and place chicken in the centre . |
| 26 | She was promptly dubbed ‘ Ruby ’ , as she was found on Tuesday and reminded Hansom of the Rolling Stones ' song Ruby Tuesday . |
| 27 | Suffrage papers began to carry reports of cases of sexual harassment and male sexual violence , in an effort to raise consciousness and sustain pressure for law reform . |
| 28 | In turn , we structure our lives and influence our growth , development and behavioural patterns by continual interaction or feedback with the etheric field or Akasha , just as any evolving product of our own creative ability ( e.g. a musical composition or the contents of a book ) interacts with our consciousness and undergoes modification during the process . |
| 29 | She went into the bedroom and gave way to a burst of weeping . |
| 30 | I continue to be very depressed , and last night I took a kitchen knife to my bedroom and drew blood from my wrist . |