Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What we have in mind ’ he said ‘ is some panelling to cover the raised floor of the bell tower and some windows about that to give visual contact between the bell ringers and the vicar . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Love of God is the greatest virtue a man can ever cultivate , and through that develops this love for the creation of God ; kindness , compassion , tolerance , and helpfulness to others emanate when the love of God grows in the heart . |
| 3 | He says that his mate bought a car from there and , he were a undecided about this clocking this time , what 's , what call it ? |
| 4 | As a visual aid to anatomical familiarity , a reference book such as this has undoubted value . |
| 5 | There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties . |
| 6 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 7 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 8 | With a baby to look after neither has much opportunity to go out , so the increase in the cost of a pint of beer or a bottle of wine will have little impact on their lives . |
| 9 | After that plans similar experience world-wide . |
| 10 | My Lord yes , er there 's just , we 're now dealing with the officers that went into the flat and conducted the operation and then there 's one W P C who comes after that to give some evidence but then that 's it . |
| 11 | Marxists after all believe that morality , in the sense of rules governing personal interactions , is the product of scarcity , a constraint which will not be necessary under communism ; and the Marxist theory of ideology devalues ethics , and suggests that ethical arguments are rationalizations of class interests . |
| 12 | In a number of cases , however , there may be a tendency to regard it , rather , as a sort of libation to the gods — a project or programme acquiring a certain added respectability by being evaluated , but with no deep-seated resolve on the part of its organisers to make any substantial organisational or financial investment in change ( after all to contemplate fundamental change to a primary programme once it is underway is an exceptionally costly business ) . |
| 13 | ( 183 ) But she admired even more what came later ; how after she had ceased wanting to blot him entirely from her mind , to make him not to be , they had found that they could after all talk good sense and kindness to each other . |
| 14 | He did not after all suggest passing conduct of the investigation over to Duroc 's police , which suggested less confidence in them , or more in Thiercelin , than the latter had anticipated . |
| 15 | Andy Roxburgh , the Scotland coach , said their consistency during the campaign made their return to the side essential after both missed last month 's defeat by Yugoslavia because of injury . |
| 16 | When transplanted to Marbella and then an English country manor , it continued to flourish — despite that f—ing awful theme song by Joe Fagin . |
| 17 | ERDAS GIS functions were used to overlay the ward boundaries on to the classified image and then count the number of pixels of each recognized land-cover type within each ward . |
| 18 | Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ? |
| 19 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 20 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
| 21 | From his vast knowledge of that swirling urban society in London and New York it was the type that could be swept up and then knocked back down that Chaplin chose to express the emotions of a whole era . |
| 22 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 23 | No 4472's insurance certificate granted her a 10-year ticket for her boiler ( ratified with an MOT style test every six months ) but only seven years of that covers main line running . |
| 24 | But er the likes of that See that mahogany band round there . |
| 25 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |
| 26 | She and the wife of another detained paramilitary officer took a taxi shortly afterwards . |
| 27 | Eighteen days later Lord Keith saw another opportunity to help Mr. Dundas , for a number of new appointments were made in consequence of the commissioning of another captured French vessel , the Carmine , and George Dundas found himself Flag Lieutenant in the Minotaur in place of John Stewart who had been appointed acting commander of another vessel , whose commander in turn had assumed command of the newly commissioned ship . |
| 28 | Consider then what happens when you start integrating one communication tool with another , in other words , the use and state of one system interacting with that of another to bring increased effectiveness . |
| 29 | But it is also about the unstable evolution both of homo erectus and his culture , all of which may be a vast illusion if what man does is simply continue his savagery while trying to repeat faint echoes of some suspect original grandeur . |
| 30 | The words were rushing out and Emily realized with surprise that she was actually nervous of this composed young woman standing before her . |