Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 2 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 3 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 4 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 5 | But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table . |
| 6 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 7 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 8 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 9 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 10 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 11 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 12 | The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories . |
| 13 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 14 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 15 | ( When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer this practice caused consternation at the Treasury , when he used only a page of notes to assist him in moving complicated resolutions on wartime finance ; he relied successfully on his memory to provide details and figures . ) |
| 16 | From there , a succession of dives fill you with awe . |
| 17 | Mozart 's fine understanding of key-schemes enabled him to build-up large-scale musical structures that were closely linked to the fast-moving action . |
| 18 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |
| 19 | of times kissed her on the arse |
| 20 | However , the Council of Guardians re-submitted it to the Majlis on Jan. 24 , calling for revisions to be made to it . |
| 21 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 22 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 23 | Could you give guidance on the important matter of confidences given us by constituents ? |
| 24 | Noctuid moths are eaten by bats , and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger . |
| 25 | It 's understood Mr Bryan had been thinking of returning to Painswick this weekend to escape the hoarde of newsmen beseigning him in London … |
| 26 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 27 | You can tell that Arthur Parker , head of IBM UK 's Enterprise Systems division , is getting heartily sick of journalists asking him about downsizing : ‘ If I only read the papers and did n't know my subject I would believe that the vast majority of large corporations are desperate to move applications off the mainframe — and that is rubbish ’ he says . |
| 28 | But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life . |
| 29 | Either that or she 's run out of schools to send him to . |
| 30 | This is a large pool , 6.5 ft by 39.5 ft , with a wide flight of steps entering it from one end . |