Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I look at r.s.s. every Saturday from about noon local time ( 5.00 pm Leeds time ) in the hope of getting the results asap and I normally have to wait for ages until info arrives .
2 The staff sample consisted of all 56 registered nurses on the unit and all 31 medical residents who cared for patients when transfer decisions were made .
3 Its segments open , and out drop the fertilised fully-provisioned eggs — seeds — which if necessary can wait for years before moisture penetrates them and stimulates them to spring to life .
4 Two charged with murders as hunt for woman continues
5 Third , Mars could have been less well veneered with volatiles after accretion was complete .
6 In this context , scientific examination of his drawings in the exhibition has revealed pentimenti , to date less considered in drawings than painting studies .
7 He passed bivouacking troops on their way up , and had to stand in gateways while supply columns clattered by , or lines of ambulances rumbled back .
8 A colony of Britain 's rarest and most important orchid — the chlorantha bee orchid — is to be replanted by experts when work starts on a building site in Harlow , Essex .
9 It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals .
10 The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in .
11 The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in .
12 He says it will be seen by Muslims as acceptance that they are part of the British community .
13 Grassy slopes used as back-rests while picnicking .
14 But the documents and witnesses to prove that the army conducted archaeological excavations have been found , this despite the fact that the area of Barbariga has been closed to archaeologists since World War II , and the islands of Brijuni were off-limits to the public once they became Tito 's residence .
15 Purchasers may however insist on revaluations if asset values have fallen since the year end
16 Many of the pills and capsules which are sold to slimmers as appetite suppressants consist largely of methyl cellulose .
17 Your own recognition of improved living standards as key to stabilisation of numbers suggests that it will be more useful to look at livelihoods than fertility rates .
18 Glycaemic control was significantly related to the disease process as measured by years since diagnosis , treatment group , and number of diabetes related clinical events .
19 He stated that ‘ it ought to be inferred that … one of the purposes of the advertisement was to enable it to be used by smokers as ammunition to persuade others that their habit was not dangerous to the health of anyone except perhaps their own . ’
20 Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exists .
21 Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill .
22 Too many of its customers , from the newspaper industry to the Post Office , have been shifting to lorries because rail is unreliable .
23 This means trying to claw back the pay rises extracted by workers since deregulation of food prices on 1 August : butter has since then gone up 1,000 per cent , meat by 700 per cent .
24 Huntsmen in Northern Ireland have been alerted by police after letter bombs were sent to two hunt members .
25 Generally gram positive types are more easily affected by disinfectants than gram negative types .
26 It has been argued by Clegg ( 1976 ) that in terms of the causal direction of the relationship it is the level of bargaining which determines the degree of centralisation , with the result that power is decentralised within organisations when bargaining takes place at a decentralised level , and vice versa .
27 She had , but only to certain files and could not have dipped into others because access was governed by codes and , in the case of the most confidential files , by numbers too .
28 Boy engulfed in flames as power sub-station explodes
29 In assays using L289 and LW60 , immunoreactive material was more commonly found in tumours than control tissue .
30 Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there .
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