Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 2 | Little is known of his childhood , though it is said he developed a talent for drawing at an early age . |
| 3 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 4 | They expound their policy of minimal state interference to find the ‘ least detrimental available alternative ’ — one in which child placement and procedure for child placement ‘ maximises , in accord with the child 's sense of time , the child 's opportunity for being wanted and for maintaining on a continuous , unconditional and permanent basis , a relationship with at least one adult who is or will become the child 's psychological parent ’ ( Goldstein et al. , 1979 , p. 189 ) . |
| 5 | Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 . |
| 6 | These are fictions about experimenting with an impecunious and occasionally feckless life of adventure , and then giving it up . |
| 7 | The majority of elderly people ( 76% ) being cared for suffer from a physical disability only . |
| 8 | Boeing is in discussions with European and Japanese companies about bringing in a 25 per cent equity partner into the development . |
| 9 | It is well worth experimenting with a cheap soft fabric , such as mull . |
| 10 | It maintains that a merger will do more harm than good because the merged group would lose orders from German car firms worried about depending on a single supplier . |
| 11 | cAMP standards were prepared ranging from 0.1 to 4 pmol ml - 1 and standards and unknowns were competed with 1 2 5 [ I ] succinyl cAMP tyrosine methyl ester ( 4.5×10 4 cpm tube - 1 ) for binding to a fixed concentration of cAMP antiserum in sodium phosphate buffer , pH 6 . |
| 12 | Future development of social work practice in this area seems probable , with a social worker having responsibility for relating to a particular Home and its residents . |
| 13 | Sometimes a large coloured dot ( red for stop ) is used to emphasise when there are no rooms available for let in a certain category . |
| 14 | The hilltop we were aiming for looked like an angry volcano . |
| 15 | Again they must perform an infinite number of circuits to reach either pole , as their paths are loxodromes , from the sailing term for keeping to a constant bearing . |
| 16 | Stigler 's insight was that randomness in demand provides scope for cheating on a collusive agreement , and creates a problem of statistical inference in enforcing that agreement . |
| 17 | reasons for applying to a particular institution |
| 18 | reasons for applying to a particular course |
| 19 | The dominant reason for applying for a particular course was vocational ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 20 | Until , that is , he realises what he has done , and feels cross with himself for walking into an emotional trap of his own unconscious devising . |
| 21 | For each of these zones it can provide : * population statistics ; * population by ACORN category ; * consumer expenditure potential ; * details of retail competition ; * a postcode index for matching to a postcoded customer file . |
| 22 | On the three-day , residential course held on December 4–6 at Pendle 's training centre in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales , you 'll learn preparation for returning to a changed work environment : Assertiveness Training , Personal Development plus two basic sales training sessions . |
| 23 | Other reasons for returning after a long period away include : |
| 24 | The next was to talk with a senior officer about applying as a future candidate for the ministry . |
| 25 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 26 | Darcy , in second place overnight , took 74 and O'Connor fell from third to 25th after crashing to an embarrassing 80 . |
| 27 | There was no question that he could have gone into some major productions and worked with some of the more notable directors ; he refused point blank , especially after seeing On a Clear Day . |
| 28 | A 65-year-old employee from Saverland , in Clayton Street , Newcastle , suffered a broken nose after struggling with an armed robber . |
| 29 | Norma Jones , left , wanted a change of image to cheer her up after recovering from a nasty injury . |
| 30 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |