Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 .
2 Durham county council was awarded an extra £2m. after appealing against an earlier allocation .
3 It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies .
4 It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies .
5 It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies .
6 Harry Pollitt reported to the Central Committee of the Party in January 1936 that : We fight to affiliate as an organised Party , campaigning for united action on the part of all workers organisations , for a change of policy that corresponds to the desires of the Labour Party members , and that also opens up the perspective of realising at a later stage one united working class political party .
7 Among attractions of a combined survey is the economy of mobilising for a larger survey with fewer turns for the ship .
8 The reason I ask is this ; Last season my club achieved promotion in the Courage League and naturally all the players were very pleased and excited by the prospect of competing at a higher level of rugby .
9 At the policy committee Coun. Tony Richmond , Conservative group leader , accused Labour of ratting on an earlier pledge to allow the disabled access .
10 The conceptualizations of police work that are found in Easton not only fit what is known of police forces elsewhere , they parallel the portrayal of policing in the wider culture .
11 His responsibilities include those of assisting in the further development of the programme , monitoring the progress of the individual research projects , and formulating plans for the dissemination of research results .
12 The third , Vulcanian phase , also probably reflects this de-gassing process , with gas escaping from the magma below accumulating in the higher parts of the volcano , and then blasting its way to the surface .
13 To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by .
14 Yes , so what er that council on study and television er could n't of come at a better time Don
15 A good game to play is ‘ Kim 's game ’ [ p.60 ] with items that are relevant to the cowboy theme and , in doing so , it will give you an opportunity of explaining to the younger ones the relevance of some of the items .
16 Withdrawal was necessary because the American war in Vietnam appeared to the General to be on the verge of widening into a larger conflict .
17 And as family members we have seen and felt at close hand some of the most intense pains and also pleasures of later life : on the one hand , bereavement and loss , but on the other , the continued mastery of old skills , the creation of new pursuits and interests , the discovery of new friends and of new ways of contributing to the wider community .
18 Once our boats had been destroyed , we had no means of communicating with the greater world .
19 Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure .
20 Some may see the bird 's warning cry as falling short of lying for a further reason .
21 These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing .
22 But this was not accompanied by deradicalization , and by contrast with many western societies , did not conflict with their sense of belonging to a wider working class .
23 By November ‘ 37 the ballroom was taken over by Mecca and enjoyed the benefits of belonging to a larger company .
24 Throughout the Upper Primary the pupils develop an increasing sense of belonging to the wider community of Heriot 's and can take even fuller advantage of the specialist teaching and facilities offered to them .
25 They contrast with the ‘ reluctant commuters ’ of more limited means , forced to live in villages for the sake of buying at the cheaper end of the housing market .
26 He felt that they had an opportunity of spreading to a greater extent than ever before .
27 We have found that by encouraging the students to think about these alternative information needs and the sources from which information can be derived , they are better able to see their accounting studies and the role of accounting in a wider context .
28 Looking at the act of speaking in a broader way , we can see that intonation can signal to the listener what is to be taken as ‘ new ’ information and what is already ‘ given ’ , can suggest when the speaker is indicating some sort of contrast or link with material in another tone-unit and , in conversation , can convey to the listener what kind of response is expected .
29 In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm .
30 A special committee , the resource allocation working party ( RAWP ) , was convened to establish ways of moving towards a fairer distribution system .
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