Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 2 | got the nine oh who said they were less worried about dying than about sex after death ? |
| 3 | The reason for the relatively less prevalence of pre-S1 than of pre-S2 on the liver cell membrane during active hepatitis B virus replication , as shown in Table II , is not clear . |
| 4 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 5 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 6 | Second , never do it in type of less than about 10-point ; and even this is really too small in newspapers . |
| 7 | Or like when I , if I we say maybe , now I ca n't imagine feeling like that except with horse riding , but I suppose you do , whatever your thing is . |
| 8 | You would n't be living like that because of comfort , because of security " — he seemed to be making an effort to despise these words as much as she did — " but because of your aim . |
| 9 | Some of the nurses are saying he 's like that because of voodoo . ’ |
| 10 | That expression ‘ embitter and spoil ’ was in reality ‘ a Jesuitism of Pa 's , ’ he pointed out , and so typical of their father , who said things like that when in fact he had no answer to the charge . |
| 11 | One of the many major problems for this idea is that Broca 's aphasics usually show better performance with content than with function words even when the task is reading aloud single words : the patient given tie , and , the and ant to read aloud might well succeed with tie and ant but not with and or the . |
| 12 | The problem is as much to do with content as with form . |
| 13 | Up to of soil per year were lost from these plots , which compares with less than per year from undisturbed forest . |
| 14 | No correspondence or enquiries can be dealt with other than in accordance with the tender conditions . |
| 15 | However , H 2 was metabolized at lower concentrations with Fe(III) than with sulphate ( b ) . |
| 16 | The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring . |
| 17 | In defence of the charges , David Moffat , fund manager of Eagle Star European ( 071–929 1111 ) , agrees that unit trusts are more expensive to buy but argues that with investment trusts there are dealing charges on purchase and sale , and that it is better to pay a percentage at the beginning when the fund is worth less than on redemption when , hopefully , it should be worth substantially more ! |
| 18 | They were drastically reduced in 1985–86 because of overtime cuts forced upon the police by the local police authority as one of the ways of responding to the budgetary impact of rate capping . |
| 19 | There was talk of India soon becoming a grain exporter and she discontinued PL480 shipments in 1971 because of shortage of storage capacity . |
| 20 | According to the NAO , in one division conservation work had slipped to an almost negligible level in 1989/90 because of pressure of work , a high level of vacancies and lack of expertise . |
| 21 | ‘ In one division in midlands and western region , conservation work had slipped to an almost negligible level in 1989/90 because of pressure of work , a high level of vacancies and lack of expertise , ’ says the report . |
| 22 | West Germany abandoned plans for a similar scheme in 1980 because of lack of cash . |
| 23 | ‘ On the contrary , with high levels of transport growth the emissions of nitrogen oxides from road vehicles may be higher in 2020 than at present . ’ |
| 24 | Why do my titles come out better in French than in English ? he wrote . |
| 25 | Factional hostility was so great in 1921 as to produce full-scale conflict between the Irkutsk faction and its opponents ; Russian forces intervened to support the Irkutsk group and hundreds of Koreans were killed or wounded . |
| 26 | However , the mortality rate due to acute gastroenteritis was lower in vitamin-A-supplemented than in placebo clusters ( 0.66 [ 0.47–0.92 ] , p=0.02 ) ; mortality rates for all other causes except acute lower respiratory infections and malaria were also lower in vitamin A clusters , but not significantly so . |
| 27 | The decision by World Cup winning Wallaby captain Nick Farr-Jones to step down from representative rugby in 1992 because of family and business reasons introduces the question : ‘ Who will take over the leadership reins ’ ? |
| 28 | On March 26 a RARA subgroup named after Juan José Crespo Galende , a Spaniard who had died in detention in Spain in 1981 while on hunger strike [ see p. 31369 ] , claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry . |
| 29 | Fronting an object is less marked in Chinese than in English . |
| 30 | King ( 1990 ) similarly suggests that topicalization , as evident in the use of expressions such as os pros , oson afora , and oso ya ( all of which mean something like ‘ as for ’ or ‘ with regards to ’ ) , is more common in Greek than in English and that Greek learners of English tend to overuse this structure . |