Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 3 | The fungus Verticillium lecanii was developed commercially from work at Littlehampton . |
| 4 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 5 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |
| 6 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 7 | Now he squatted , toad-like , by Berowne 's body , his hands hanging loosely in front of him , palely disembodied . |
| 8 | This beam is then focused by an acoustic lens , the melon , a fatty body situated right in front of the blow-hole and conspicuous by its presence in many cetaceans . |
| 9 | This is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete local network-based application development environment for client-server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year . |
| 10 | ADP is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete LAN-based application development environment for client/server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year ( UX No 353 ) . |
| 11 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 12 | Opinion differs widely on value of these methods . |
| 13 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 14 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 15 | But , just the same , Cara had fallen wholeheartedly in love with him , and a year ago she had married him . |
| 16 | After the elections charges were levelled that the federal government had intervened secretly on behalf of USNO in an attempt to undermine Kitangan . |
| 17 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 18 | So , for the English edition , he has added five new chapters , consisting mostly of advice to America to balance his previous advice to Japan . |
| 19 | But it was also because Britain , as a heavily industrialised nation , got little in return from Brussels under CAP payments . |
| 20 | But it had fallen mostly into desuetude in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and it had certainly not been evident in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 21 | Willie crept nervously on stage with the prompt book in his hand and was joined by the others . |
| 22 | The strength of Gloucester 's hold on the duchy connection can not , however , be explained only by reference to the situation within the duchy itself . |
| 23 | The strength of Gloucester 's hold on the duchy connection can not , however , be explained only by reference to the situation within the duchy itself . |
| 24 | However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables . |
| 25 | The climate differs less from north to south and distances are shorter . |
| 26 | The determination by the material base having been displaced , the form of ideology ( distortion ) can no longer be explained merely by reference to contradictions in the material base although Habermas incorporates Marx 's critique of the commodity form of labour as ideology ( Habermas 1972 : 59 ) . |
| 27 | He might have to sacrifice somewhat of pay for this end but he would not mind that owing to the chance of rising in the Imperial Service . ’ |
| 28 | Liability arises only when there is a nuclear incident which occurs at or in connection with certain nuclear installations , or in the course of transport of nuclear substances , and it can arise only in connection with licensed nuclear sites . |
| 29 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 30 | But because of the economies of the crab fishery and the dim awareness of conservation within the Chilean government , the Committee believes that the hunting can be stopped only by pressure from governments that buy the crab . |