Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 2 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 3 | Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others . |
| 4 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 5 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
| 6 | They said if we did n't consent for him to claim for the two of us , they 'd summons me and him for aiding and abetting . |
| 7 | Her target was an excessively tall gangling gentleman , not very suitably clad for the Mediterranean in a suit of gingery wool with the trousers ending in tight bands round the calves . |
| 8 | ‘ A Christmas-shopping outing to East Kilbride was arranged for the elderly of the parish , with transport , tea and coffee laid on ’ . |
| 9 | People never change for the better by being hated , judged and condemned . |
| 10 | Hyman got between the two of them , begging , ‘ Do n't hit him , Charlie . ’ |
| 11 | Meanwhile , CAJEC secretary Jack Maurice is wading through the 400 plus pages of the ‘ 88 and rising ’ responses he has received — a record for any ethics document — and wondering how he is going to satisfy all the conflicting demands . |
| 12 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 13 | Latinos account for a third of its 9m odd residents . |
| 14 | Currently , hydrocarbons account for a third of Norway 's gross exports , 15 per cent of revenue and 17 per cent of Gross National Product . |
| 15 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 16 | FAXgrabber made about a tenth of the errors . |
| 17 | While the Bond is intended as a medium to long term investment , it may be encashed at any time . |
| 18 | But policies intended for the poor in general , which are politically more acceptable than those designed for specific racial groups , will aim at a big section of blacks too . |
| 19 | This national dairy breed was formed during the 1960s by the amalgamation of several red or red-and-white types after a gradual series of breed absorptions over the last 40 or 50 years . |
| 20 | The presenter drained off the last of her gin and tonic and clinked the ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 21 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 22 | You 've now all seen a project quality plan , but I 'd just like to go through a few of the headings just to advise you where I think the benefits lie . |
| 23 | They 're much easier this way round because you have n't got to go through the minor at all to reach them . |
| 24 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 25 | At a meeting of European Community ( EC ) Foreign Ministers in Dublin , Ireland , on Feb. 20 , Genscher sought to reassure those governments which had not been consulted about the two plus four agreement . |
| 26 | The system incorporates special hardware , a main processing unit consisting of two control processors and 32 computational processors arranged as a four by eight array ; and is front-ended by a Fujitsu S series ( Sun Microsystems ) workstation running Solaris and supporting PHIGS and XGL for CAD/CAM applications and PEX for photorealism . |
| 27 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 28 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
| 29 | While they are best regarded as a medium to long term investment , you can always sell your units at any time you wish . |
| 30 | Hitherto regarded as a moderate in his policies towards the West , the president 's rhetoric is becoming less conciliatory with the approach of presidential elections in June . |