Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from these important changes , specialized antiracist work within the local state has been increasingly identified as an embarrassment by the Labour Party for whom political commitments to antiracism and multiculturalism are apparently a vote loser . |
| 2 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 3 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |
| 4 | My aunt , she run a house for them visitin' ministers to Port au Prince . |
| 5 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 6 | ‘ It has been estimated that the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , could , to mutual advantage , create between them 80,000 jobs within the island of Ireland through import substitution by encouraging inter-regional trade co-operation . ’ |
| 7 | Financial deregulation , with its resultant mergers and reconstructions , has reduced LIFFE 's membership to under 200 firms which between them own shares in the Exchange . |
| 8 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 9 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 10 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 11 | But when I first knew him Gustave used to write frequently about my forthcoming visits to his house . |
| 12 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 13 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 14 | I made no friends or even close acquaintances during my eighteen months at college . |
| 15 | I shall always be grateful to Mr Rocke for his ready help and understanding during my early days at Thurnscoe . |
| 16 | During my early years at Lancaster , much of my time was spent in the collaboration with , , and on GCE . |
| 17 | This same man wrote that he ‘ could not remember having ever felt , during my 52 years of life , the slightest symptoms of that curious disease — ambition — which craves for leadership , honour , money , or notoriety ’ . |
| 18 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 19 | Eventually , during my evolutionary wanderings through Biomorph Land — the sense of triumph was scarcely less than on the first occasion — I finally cornered them again . |
| 20 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 21 | In fact , during my first days under Mr Farraday , I was once or twice quite astounded by some of the things he would say to me . |
| 22 | Certainly the people I got to know during my fifteen months on the sports circuit for the Sunday Correspondent readily confirmed my own impression that McIlvanney is the best in the business . |
| 23 | During my inglorious years as a concert agent I used to reduce my clients to tears by stubbornly refusing to call them ‘ artistes ’ . |
| 24 | There is said to be many decorated examples using dot and line relief , but I have found only two such decorated ones during my twenty years of detecting . |
| 25 | During my 20 years of practice in the law , there has been a great deal of vehicle taking , in precisely the kind of circumstances that led to the promulgation of the Bill by the Government . |
| 26 | So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department . |
| 27 | During my earlier periods of unemployment I had always , on a point of pride , provided for myself out of my savings . |
| 28 | She had on several occasions fobbed off my clumsy advances with great ease and much friendliness . |
| 29 | Thank God for people who are naturally astute , as well , I do n't know where I 'd be without my husband whose precise , unfailing , streetwise insight into people knocks spots off my long-winded shots at psycho-analysing them . |
| 30 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |