Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 2 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 3 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 4 | Many before me , I thought , had been shot by arrows in ancient woodland and faced their mortality in places that had looked like this before man started killing man . |
| 5 | Does he agree that it ill behoves the Labour party to comment on that because Labour was against the channel tunnel at its inception ? |
| 6 | We can focus on those , and no doubt we will focus on those as time goes by . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 8 | Minor or the trace constituents then are present in concentrations less than one part per million they obviously count for less than point one percent of the total salts They are useful as chemical tracers of particular waters . |
| 9 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 10 | They had to be done like that and yeuk and then throw the neep in there and then the next day so that when the |
| 11 | ‘ Keep on looking like that and Moinet will insist that you stay here indefinitely so that he can look after you . |
| 12 | ‘ Collusion ’ should , certainly for antitrust purposes , refer to a form of conduct , not the value of an outcome : collusive behaviour might well result in less than monopoly profits . |
| 13 | A few controversial mammalian fossils were known from the age of reptiles , and Lyell appealed to these as evidence that the whole sequence was unsound . |
| 14 | We will refer to these as intro , A , B , C and coda shape of a circle with a cross on it . |
| 15 | The bond 's conditions did not allow for this , so even if bought and transferred at less than par between individuals , they had to be redeemed by the Club in full . |
| 16 | Similarly , he rejects the claim made by some that Christianity is the only true religion . |
| 17 | It has been argued by some that training plays no part in refining the skills of headship which can only be learned through experience ; presumably the proponents of this view would say that it also applies to officers . |
| 18 | If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained . |
| 19 | It must be remembered that hyperlipidaemia in a well-controlled diabetic may also represent a primary familial disorder , and it is often difficult to differentiate between this and diabetes complicated by hypertriglyceridaemia . |
| 20 | Auction houses have an obligation to the vendor and are unlikely to allow anything to be sold for less than cost . |
| 21 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 22 | and if you stand like that and state |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone , ’ he said , trusting her ; knowing that she had acted from more than self-interest . |
| 24 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 25 | Highlighting is used on all or part of an option number to emphasise the significant part of the number at the level shown . |
| 26 | Race goers are advised not to buy a ticket offered at less than face value , while anyone who 's concerned about a ticket they 've already bought should get in touch with the course . |
| 27 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
| 28 | the work will be still continued on that , but also in terms of Bungay itself , we 're looking at whether county management can look at this and sort of if you like identify it , so we have n't abandoned Bungay , far from it , we 're still concerned with the , we 've got the , the base of the facts still go on er and , and we 're gon na continue on Monday . |
| 29 | This has often been criticised because we are told that in drawing an analogy we normally know ‘ both sides ’ that we are comparing ( eg ‘ does n't he look like a horse ? ’ , where we can look at both and judge ) , whereas in this case we can only look at one side , the object that we are comparing with God . |
| 30 | But if the female is able to cope with all or part of this added maternal burden she can , of course , contribute even more spectacularly to the feline population explosion . |