Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When the state sold off its industrial interests or sponsored new ventures in the 1880s , it favoured the zaibatsu who tended to accumulate specialized industrial holdings , rather like the more recent French strategy of creating large firms as sector leaders . |
| 32 | The oldest Best Actor was George Arliss at sixty-three for Disraeli ( 1929 ) , the youngest Richard Dreyfuss at twenty-nine for The Goodbye Girl ( 1977 ) — thus upholding the ancient Oscar tradition that the Best Actors tend to be honoured for their worst pictures . |
| 33 | Britten was particularly revered for his vocal scores for children , which captured their imagination and interest without condescension . |
| 34 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 35 | Several teachers have arranged for their recreational classes to sponsor a specialised group , and the Membership Secretary has funds in hand to finance the membership of other specialised groups — please send in the names of all participants and the venue of the class . |
| 36 | The SFO had alleged that they secretly arranged for their own companies to buy shares , thereby raising the take-up level announced to other investors . |
| 37 | She leaned back against the seat , her hands pressed between her own legs . |
| 38 | So an urgent appeal is being launched in Britain and in other countries asking people to search for their old slide-rules in attics , in schools and in lab store rooms . |
| 39 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 40 | What are we to conclude about the implications for his later personality of the way in which a child is treated during his early years ? |
| 41 | I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway . |
| 42 | Marjorie ( Joanna Lumley ) , for instance , whom Shirley envied for her academic prospects , ends up with only the freedom of high-class prostitution . |
| 43 | There is always something delirious about language — the burgeoning , bubbling Remainder that has been left out of the dry official structure comes crashing through my best-formed sentences — so I can feel it speaking through me . |
| 44 | They sauntered and stopped without warning and she had to duck and weave through their chattering bunches . |
| 45 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
| 46 | They knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to Jarveys in high pitched provincial voices , which pierced through their skin-tight accents . |
| 47 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 48 | A new law setting out tough penalties for car theft goes through its final stages today.It was put through by Oxford West MP John Patten , Minister of State at the Home Office . |
| 49 | In significant respects both differed on what a study of human society might look like , and both made strenuous and hard-won efforts to carry through their respective conceptions through argument and research into the phenomena they tried to identify as sociology 's subject matter . |
| 50 | Well regarded for its colour-illustrated articles by noted authors , many from the museum field , the journal had a devoted following of around 10,000 subscribers , but needed a cash infusion to get out of the red . |
| 51 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 52 | The engineers at SUNY are trying to convince the city 's department of transportation to take seismic loading into account for its new bridges . |
| 53 | Apart from conjunctions and disjuncts which we have decided not to take into account for our current purposes , this is the only instance in which the theme of the clause is not the element that occurs in initial position . |
| 54 | In one incident they attempted to saw through its supporting pillars . |
| 55 | Power around the organization concerns the way enterprises are intercon-nected between their strategic apexes . |
| 56 | Fifty or sixty perfect , pointed teeth gleamed between his parted lips . |
| 57 | Despite his programmatic emphasis in the Archaeology on the discursive formation as a means of making intelligible those knowledges that are formulated through their institutional components , Foucault turned away from this kind of historical enquiry because it was too ‘ clean , conceptually aseptic ’ — in other words , too apolitical . |
| 58 | Sammy Wilson , the DUP press officer , dissociated the party from Seawright 's remarks : ‘ The DUP has always made it crystal clear — as Protestants we believe in civil and religious liberty for all men , and no one should be persecuted for their religious beliefs . |
| 59 | The Committee asked for their good wishes to be sent to her . |
| 60 | But Ramsey had an alarming faculty for seeing through his own utterances . |