Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small shops can not survive for long under these conditions . |
| 2 | He compares three studies , carried out respectively in 1949 , 1972 and 1983 , but reflecting the educational and social conditions of well before those dates . |
| 3 | 'Trying to get out of here on those things . |
| 4 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 5 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 6 | Jill will be through directly with some goodies . ’ |
| 7 | I understand that currently about 9,000 tonnes of those wastes are dealt with annually at those sites . |
| 8 | not uncalled for though in many respects . |
| 9 | There is a delightful duckpond , in the village , fed from within by more springs and edged by overhanging willows , creating a picturesque scene . |
| 10 | And then Lord Pugh distributed the hands of the dead to those who had most distinguished themselves — to be wrought upon patiently over many years in their cells with scrimshaw designs . |
| 11 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 12 | So called because it dips automatically should a car approach from behind with all lights blazing . |
| 13 | He came from behind in both races to beat New Zealander Robert Holden . |
| 14 | He came from behind in both races to beat New Zealander Robert Holden . |
| 15 | I am afraid that he has been far from well for several months . |
| 16 | The fascist concept of the new man fitted in well with such ideas . |
| 17 | ‘ You work in here on those occasions ? ’ |
| 18 | And have you worked in here for many years ? |
| 19 | I insist on one of the grooms being in here at all times . |
| 20 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 21 | And any double bond will consist of a sigma bond and pie bond and because you 've got the pie bond there it then restricts rotation about that carbon carbon bond axis and providing you have different groups here different groups of , at each end or just one in there at both ends you can get two different isomers . |
| 22 | And there 's a lot of women in the same situation as you , what with children and one thing and another , so you discuss it and you find you 're not the only one in there with those problems — there are others the same . |
| 23 | There 's an office in town opposite Boots on Parliament Street and there 's a great range of leaflets in there on all sorts of things . |
| 24 | So you see the commercial aspects were still in there in those days as they are today . |
| 25 | We saw that the first , and most important , of these traumatic social changes was the transition from vegetarian foraging to big-game hunting which precipitated the murder of the primal father , and that subsequent totemic culture , still extant until recently in some parts of the world , was a consequence of this . |
| 26 | How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still , intranced with admiration ( while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula ) , to hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! |
| 27 | So we 've drawn the graph and now we do n't have to keep calcul I mean this is easy it' probably easier to work it out in your head then to especially with these figures . |
| 28 | In general the " topping workmen " were rare enough in London and hardly existed elsewhere , except perhaps in some branches of the metal trades in Sheffield or Birmingham . |
| 29 | For this reason the monitoring arrangements referred to elsewhere in these Guidelines will provide an essential source of information from which training requirements may accurately be identified over time . |
| 30 | ( They begin on pp.68 , 70 , 72 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 92 , 96 , 97 and 102 , and will be referred to hereafter by those numbers . ) |