Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sometimes it is manifested in an exaggeration of previous dependency when problems arise ; sometimes , with strangers , excessive expectations of and need for support arise from these earlier relationships ( 'My husband waited on me hand and foot . ' ) |
| 2 | Efforts were made to keep the communities informed of the studies ' purposes , and of any new developments , through meetings open to all community members , and by announcements at market places . |
| 3 | Would not a more reasonable decision have been to fix the subscription at the direct debit level but offer a discount of £5.00 for payment say within 14 days of the due date ? |
| 4 | Why not give it a try ? ct If you 'd like to know more about nutrition write to Healthy Balance Nutrition Advisory Service |
| 5 | Recommended for Manufacturers guide to suggested mileage and the type of terrain the shoe is suited to . |
| 6 | Pavings for patios come in all shapes , sizes and colours . |
| 7 | X/Open in turn explained the inner working of its fast track process : a specification that 's very clean and well written takes at least six months , changes after review tack on another 10 weeks . |
| 8 | X/Open in turn explained the inner working of its fast track process : a specification that 's very clean and well-written takes at least six months , changes after review tack on another 10 weeks . |
| 9 | It was a change by no means welcome to all Jews , but its assertion of the primacy of national ties was characteristic of the age . |
| 10 | Marx 's ideas about Russia have for obvious reasons been discussed extensively , but this has significance for Marx 's anthropology in two ways . |
| 11 | Several firms such as BUPA specialize in this aspect of health insurance . |
| 12 | A number of reasons contribute towards this . |
| 13 | Huge numbers of coins survive from past societies dating back over two thousand years . |
| 14 | This series will , hopefully , tell you all you need to know about what makes a PC tick , what the various bits of one are , and how the various types of PC differ for one another . |
| 15 | About 75% of solicitors qualify in this way which is the quickest and most common way to qualify as a solicitor . |
| 16 | Whatever the explanation for that — clusters of leukaemia occur in many places far removed from nuclear sites — no scientific connection has been demonstrated and scaremongering about Dounreay is deeply damaging and much to be deplored . |
| 17 | If the sentence ‘ God exists ’ entails no more than that certain types of phenomena occur in certain sequences , then to assert the existence of a god will be simply equivalent to asserting that there is the requisite regularity in nature ; and no religious man would admit that this was all he intended to assert in asserting the existence of a god . |
| 18 | In contrast to this robust concern for liberal ideals in the classical rules , modern developments in the law of contracts rest upon uncertain and doubtful moral and political principles . |
| 19 | There were various suggestive pieces of evidence , for example from the volume relations of gases — two volumes of hydrogen combine with one of oxygen , which suggests H 2 O — but all of them posed difficulties of a theoretical kind . |
| 20 | Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision . |
| 21 | The farms of the Edinburgh School of Agriculture extend to 1,200 hectares embracing hill , upland and lowland and there is a comprehensive range of plot , field and farm scale facilities that are fully equipped for large animal and crop plant experimentation . |
| 22 | so and erm , and still my total number of calls come to seventy odd pounds but then , over above that is rental and then VAT |
| 23 | What was the nature of the former parental relationship with the children , and what impact do these former patterns of interaction have on current relationships , especially when children have left home and established their own families ? |
| 24 | All these correlations of course come from mean values for stimuli aggregated across subjects and are thus likely to be overestimates of the true size of any effect in individual subjects ( Guilford & Fruchter 1973 , Dunlap , Jones & Bittner 1983 ) . |
| 25 | I I have to say the top earners of course ask for those further away . |
| 26 | Many areas of prosperity and some of difficulty exist in each and every part of this country — |
| 27 | The search for an appropriate response to the problems of conflicts abuse in financial conglomerates , central to which is the increased need to protect investors , must be set within this context . |
| 28 | UDF representatives had acknowledged some loss of grass-roots support in early January , because of UDF backing for restoring Turkish and Pomak rights . |
| 29 | The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | More bits of layette arrive from all parties , including a romper-suit with a picture of Horace the Happy Horse on it , which Paul furtively throws in the dustbin . |