Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 2 | An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold . |
| 3 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |
| 4 | No of course of you ca n't because I 've got nothing in it . |
| 5 | It was in the interests of the men , of capital and the state that the institution of the family and the division of labour within it should continue . |
| 6 | A good picture is worth any number of words for it can communicate a point quickly and succinctly , and in any language . |
| 7 | Well it sounds like a lot of things but , but actually getting a game of tennis in it can be quite difficult because you know the weather 's turned against us now so |
| 8 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 9 | then you er everyone sang Happy Birthday and somebody arrived down the aisle with a couple of balloons for her should have done that for me too , on my |
| 10 | This is a matter of joy for it will mean the celebration of the kingdom of Heaven on earth . |
| 11 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 12 | In the case of a fountain , a jet with a series of holes in it will be attached to the outflow to create a spray pattern . |
| 13 | If there were not sufficient expectation that a failed , conventionally organised enterprise could be restored to viability as an industrial co-operative , the injection of resources into it would divert them from more promising projects . |
| 14 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 15 | The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias . |
| 16 | It is almost certain that an offer of mediation from you would give rise to an irresistible movement in favour of negotiations … . |
| 17 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 18 | Likewise , where the footings on eaves of a building project beyond the edge of an external wall they will be included in the demised property , although the column of air between them will not ( Truckell v Stock [ 1957 ] 1 All ER 74 ) . |
| 19 | I got the old metal detected on , but , of course it could always be a bit of grit in it could n't it |
| 20 | Thus , as long as the marriage between the husband and wife ( assuming them both to be domiciled in the UK ) is not dissolved , transfer of property between them will not incur a liability to inheritance tax . |
| 21 | If he agreed , the threat of proceedings against him would be unnecessary . |
| 22 | Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it ! |
| 23 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 24 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 25 | The commission of crimes against them will have the effect of diminishing their positive freedom , to which they also have a right ; for example crimes of injurious violence reduce the victims ' freedom to operate physically free from pain , while property offences will deprive them of resources and thereby remove their freedom to choose to act in ways which require the use of those resources . |
| 26 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |
| 27 | Given your date of confinement of you should return to work on or before |
| 28 | Not surprisingly in this sprawling rural district the tories are the second largest grouping on the council and a couple of gains for them could deny the independents overall control . |
| 29 | These metal frames with spikes on them can be attached to certain types of boot to give good grip in snow and ice . |
| 30 | You do n't play with Josh like you used to — you just sit ! |