Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped , waiting for armed Twenty-fourthers to swarm out of every window , demanding to know why Robert was proposing to barge in on their most secret and important ceremony . |
| 2 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 3 | And with St E 's wholesome regard for strong melodies evidenced again by the next single ‘ Speedwell ’ can this really only be a one-night stand ? |
| 4 | The use of brute force for righteous ends appeals strongly to rap 's adolescent male following , of course . |
| 5 | Coloured lights strung between low pylons bounce about amongst the palm trees . |
| 6 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 7 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |
| 8 | It appeared to be an occupational hazard , walking down dark and dingy — or even brightly lit — corridors , waiting for strange creatures to pounce out at unexpected moments . |
| 9 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 10 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 11 | Orders for durable goods fell unexpectedly in March , somewhat damping the new enthusiasm , but the financial markets seem convinced that the recovery , albeit a slow one , is about to start . |
| 12 | On one hand , therefore , McElroy is preparing for private companies to take over the reigns of the weather craft ; on the other , he is inviting other countries to become involved in what could be a link only between governments . |
| 13 | A major feature of Suharto 's budget speech was a call for private companies to offer up to 25 per cent of their shares to workers ' co-operatives , and to facilitate this by providing soft loans . |
| 14 | So to stop it being a through route , because it 's not part it 's not a necessary route for private cars to go down , and it is , of course , extremely important because the entrance to the bus station is off that route . |
| 15 | Therefore public transport policy for rural areas requires very careful evaluation , not only in terms of economic viability but also in terms of the social impact of reducing services . |
| 16 | Given the thriving circular trade , it was easy for counterfeit manufacturers to pass off goods which they know would not be checked , said Mr Lumley . |
| 17 | In this respect , therefore , the outer-city studies lay the basis for the arguments about weak ties put forward in J. Milroy and L. Milroy ( 1985b ) and further discussed in later chapters . |
| 18 | The capacity to monitor UOS pressure for prolonged periods has only recently been developed . |
| 19 | Nor were they the same top three from one decade to the next : groups such as Kemsley disappeared , and the market share of a survivor such as Associated Newspapers fluctuated quite widely . |
| 20 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 21 | Non-profit making organisations , public corporations and other government institutions might also have formally-stated objects in their constitution , whereas other organisations such as sole traderships do not have any formally-stated objects ( even though they will still have objects of some description ) . |
| 22 | Natural disasters such as prolonged droughts have also damaged the ecology of numerous African countries . |
| 23 | The need for domain-specific dictionaries had therefore not been clearly proven . |
| 24 | The majority of prison letters that I receive have the ring of truth ; the reason being that it is not in human nature ( of which the law is profoundly ignorant ) for guilty men to go on proclaiming their innocence month after month , year after year , when they do not have the evidence , the impetus , or the skills to do so , at least with any show of conviction . |
| 25 | Accordingly , we intend to provide in regulations for direct payments to start once that 100 per cent . |
| 26 | Between palace and castle runs the processional route of the Royal Mile , for long the arena for the city 's most important activities , climbing as it does up a narrow ridge cramped between steep slopes carved out by ancient glaciers to either side . |
| 27 | The healthy export market for four-wheel-drive vehicles contrasts sharply with the rest of the slump-hit industry . |
| 28 | For social norms to function as social pressures , they must be internalized , and thereby form part of the individual 's cognitive beliefs . |
| 29 | Dr Runcie , he writes , ‘ is calling for a social market economy ’ , the implication being that such a marriage between free market principles for wealth creation and collective provision for social needs does not exist in this country . |
| 30 | But , well I think they check that sort of thing for social workers do n't they ? |