Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 2 | Great credit for that goes to my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 3 | Elderly people pay for this according to their income , which has to be declared in full , but those on very small incomes may have nothing to pay at all . |
| 4 | And he 's given us certain gifts to enable us for this to happen in our lives . |
| 5 | But even those who said they joined in order to serve the community ( and there are many ) feel a disappointment upon entering the force as a result of the limited opportunities for this allowed by their duties . |
| 6 | Main 's removal at the instigation of Cunningham 's enemies , and the appointment shortly thereafter of Cunnan to act in his place , had , as Provost Cunningham remarked , made ‘ a very great noise ’ , and by providing this evidence of their influence , the Haldane party could argue plausibly that all of the partisans of the Cunningham faction then in office would not retain their places for much longer . |
| 7 | At this macro level of analysis it has been demonstrated that older people in Britain experience an income level relative to other members of society which is considerably below that enjoyed by their counterparts in Europe and North America ( Hedstrom and Ringen 1987 ) . |
| 8 | But nor was Aldaniti , who had broken down again at Sandown Park in November 1979 and was to spend most of 1980 recuperating at his owner 's Sussex home . |
| 9 | Each of the chapters is itself subdivided into a set of double-page spreads with its own title , such as ‘ Fossil environments ’ and ‘ The origin of life ’ . |
| 10 | Daisy thought , a people that loves flowers yet is cruel to animals ; Sister Dew said to herself , I must get a coloured postcard of that to send to my friend . |
| 11 | It is midnight and after great difficulty I managed with my little bit of French to convey to my dancing partner of the evening that I would like to see her home . |
| 12 | Mel Gibson was born in America in 1956 , but at the age of 12 emigrated with his family to Australia . |
| 13 | Mel Gibson was born in America in 1956 , but at the age of 12 emigrated with his family to Australia . |
| 14 | Churlish indeed the man who wishes his neighbour a Merry Christmas but does not give him tangible proof of this to put on his mantlepiece . |
| 15 | What had any of this to do with her husband 's death or affair , she asked herself ? |
| 16 | None of this showed on her face , but a certain rigidity of jaw would have betrayed to the careful watcher that perhaps she was n't quite as calm and in control as she wished to appear . |
| 17 | Yeah but I , part of this comes from my first real , my only training at all and my first real experience in printing was working for this guy called Robert Dothard . |
| 18 | But tonight her face seemed frozen into its gracious expression , like royalty in a traffic jam , and if she wished to herself that Hilda would make the odd concession so that civil conversation with her could be easier , nothing of this appeared in her manner . |
| 19 | Is it just a curious coincidence that one of the Bristol ships involved in the exploration of 1481 had on its previous voyage called at the Franciscan convent at Huelva , where Columbus was later to secure support for his proposed voyages ? |
| 20 | By contrast , two soldiers and a Timorese policeman had on June 1 received prison sentences ranging from eight to 17 months , while on June 6 two army officers , the last of 10 charged for their direct involvement in the massacre , had received sentences of one year and eight months respectively . |
| 21 | He did not allow the revolution of 1917 to interfere with his contacts with Russian colleagues and it was appropriate that he should have been asked to supply the inscription for the sword presented by George VI to the people of Stalingrad . |
| 22 | It was like the beginning of healing to get into their seats and kneel beside Moran , no longer exposed . |
| 23 | It is relevant to recount at this juncture that when KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ordered a number of DC-10s to add to their fleet the Netherlands airworthiness authority , the Rijks Luchtvaart Dienst ( RLD ) , became concerned during the validation process of this aircraft type about the integral strength of the cabin floor under which flight and engine controls and electrical and hydraulic lines are attached . |
| 24 | The allocation of inmates to any one of these depends on their participation in the five-stage programme which leads to probation and release . |
| 25 | You know , all these things which — I 'm displaying my ignorance because some of these come into your area , some of these do n't quite , but these are very much the concerns of ordinary people . |
| 26 | Some of these relate to its heritage — its traditional concern for rigorous academic study of socially-relevant subjects and its traditional mission to the educationally-underprivileged . |
| 27 | One of the most important of these relates to their ‘ input ’ , in terms of the number of offenders who come before them each year . |
| 28 | The first of these arose from his friendship with Hassuna D'Ghies , the young ambassador from Tripoli to the Court of St James , for whom Bentham wrote an important manuscript , ‘ Securities against Misrule ’ . |
| 29 | The Delta 170.3 retains the familiar operating features — 20-track programming , full remote control , track time , elapsed time , total disc time and cumulative time displays etc. — but offers a potentially higher performance by the use of a new digital output board which reduces jitter by a factor of three compared with its predecessor ( Arcam make still greater claims in this respect over many standard CD players ) . |
| 30 | Reacting to such problems ( and the suicide mentioned above was one of three encountered in my period of headship ) has proved to be a heavy additional burden to many teachers . |