Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might surmise that the separations John experienced between the ages of two and seven years resulted in the development of an internal blueprint predicting that close relationships were unlikely to be sustained , and cautioning against becoming involved with others . |
| 2 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 3 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 4 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 5 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 6 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 7 | A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra . |
| 8 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 9 | Council representatives heard about the experiences of two representatives — Tony Fox FCIB , Worthing , and David Dimmer FCIB , Bristol . |
| 10 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you 've heard about the traces of tranquillisers found in the deceased 's blood ? ’ |
| 12 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |
| 13 | All three groups , being sea-dwellers , have left behind abundant remains and the details of their separate dynastic fortunes can be traced through the rocks for hundreds of millions of years . |
| 14 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 15 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 16 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 17 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 18 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 19 | A successful team blends these different roles together so that the strengths of one compensate for the weaknesses of another . |
| 20 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 21 | The bronze sheeting was held to the cap , cheek-pieces , neckguard and mask by fluted strips of bronze riveted through the edges of the foil to the cap of the helmet . |
| 22 | The expression covers a wide field of positions involving the creditor and the debtor which can arise during the negotiations of a loan guarantee and the associated execution by the surety of a charge upon property which fall far short of the creation of a formal agency . |
| 23 | Hanson 's Peabody subsidiary is criticized for the effects of its coal mining activities on Navajo land in Arizona . |
| 24 | Closing on the same day is the confrontation between the work of Carmelo Arden and Roger Desserprit made during the years of the association with the Madi group in the 1950s . |
| 25 | In a multiprogramming computer system , then , we have a number of processes competing for the resources of the computer , such as main storage areas , processor time , and access to transput devices . |
| 26 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 27 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 28 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 29 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 30 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |