Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Deliberately , the colour has little force , but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety . |
| 32 | This was compensated for by their self-laudatory claims such as : " We have our own team of analysts , and a good research department , etc . " |
| 33 | He lacked social graces and had no small talk but this , to some extent , was compensated for by his unfailing memory . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 35 | Furniture by the Edinburgh firm of Whytock and Reid did well , now increasingly sought after for its technical perfection . |
| 36 | Most people who are keen on hollies soon find out that both male and female trees can be extremely attractive because of their foliage , which is often variegated and much sought after for its own sake , so buying a male is n't just a utilitarian exercise . |
| 37 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 38 | The place was done up in his trademarked colossal style , with a huge pair of well-muscled stone legs standing astride the doorway to the main casino . |
| 39 | If you decide that a tripod is the answer , you will find a selection of these to choose from at your local photographic dealers . |
| 40 | More than 30 prospective hedges to choose from in our comprehensive and detailed selector table . |
| 41 | Biggest disappointment was ‘ The end of the story ’ , a fine Albert Moore which , while amply demonstrating his brilliance as a colourist , was done in by its overcleaned state and high reserve ( est. $500-$700,000 ) : all bidding , such as it was , stopped at $375,000 ( £250,000 ) . |
| 42 | There is real promise that the undoubted achievements of some primary schools in teaching science and the arts will be built upon by their secondary colleagues . |
| 43 | ’ For four days we 've had music you could almost dance to in our own front rooms — if you like that sort of music . ’ |
| 44 | There is one final point that ought to he made before we operationalise these theories , and it is one which we alluded to in our earlier discussions . |
| 45 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 46 | Obviously , there are still many other problems to be overcome , including the possible effect of targeting genes and proteins which normal cells depend on for their own growth control . |
| 47 | The tempo run would be done at about your best 10-mile speed and would last 15–20 minutes . |
| 48 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 49 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 50 | Though I had been in Casualty longer than the three weeks Sister had talked of on my first morning , and by Cas. rules was temporarily senior to Daisy Yates , it was Daisy who was sent to join the Accident Nursing Team . |
| 51 | Erm but what we will have to do is set up our local procedures as regards agents queries and things like that in both countries , both with and also whatever you decide in Denmark of how we run the procedure but that can be something later but what we 'll need to do is no doubt before we actually do the distribution to the agents and the erm the information out to them th why we 're going into on our own as opposed to being served by the other carriers . |
| 52 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 53 | On the day after the funeral of 3-year-old Leoni , the popular newspapers had another case to focus upon for their front page headlines : EVIL OLD MAN WHO KILLED KIRSTY GETS LIFE ( Daily Mail ) ; 60 YEARS OF EVIL Kirsty 's killer , 79 , led a life of crime ( Sun ) . |
| 54 | Nevertheless Cara smiled at them that morning , as she smiled at the frail , clerical-looking gentleman who was both their saviour and their torment , the pawnbroker who held his court on one corner of St Jude 's Passage , the other corner housing the red-headed madam of the fringed shawl who did not emerge from behind her green shutters so early in the day . |
| 55 | I have n't had to in my this current house because they 're sealed units and I I bought the house new so . |
| 56 | Here you can mimic the conditions they are used to in their native South Africa . |
| 57 | The professor 's wife said something about how difficult and expensive it was to get a good cleaning woman , and the professor responded uneasily , insensitively , aware that he was not getting the respect he was used to in his Senior Common Room . |
| 58 | As a result , there were simply more same-sex intimacies and ones of greater intensity than we are used to in our modern world , steeped as it is in post-Freudian heterosexuality . |
| 59 | The 1990s have witnessed a shift in the art establishment 's attitudes towards art produced outside of its traditional parameters . |
| 60 | Furthermore , attacks such as Crews 's are , as he acknowledges , not taken seriously and replied to in their own terms , but treated as symptoms of repressed disturbance . |