Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor expressed his surprise ; was Jackson not aware that in the district in which these persons derived their experience , there was little , if any , knowledge of mines worked under day levels or of what takes place in them when they are drained to considerable depths by machinery ? |
| 2 | And in Dworkin it is evident in his views that ‘ government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life … [ and ] political decisions must be , so far as possible , independent of any particular conception of the good life , or of what gives value to life ’ . |
| 3 | A randomly selected sample of 159 children from this unit aged 14 years or under who underwent grommet insertion over the past six months showed that 39% ( 62 ) had the operation performed predominantly for reasons other than hearing disability , a point not even mentioned in the document . |
| 4 | There were no representations from Metair ( who by then were making arrangement to remove to Biggin Hill ) , from the Ministry of Defence ( which had no alternative site for the country 's largest cadet gliding school ) or from anyone representing warbird interests . |
| 5 | Possibly he felt that for her to inherit control of a shipping company might be an embarrassment to her husband in his political career . |
| 6 | Her mother spent a weekend with us about six months after Shanti came to us , to reassure herself that for us to adopt Shanti was really what she wanted . |
| 7 | We assume that he would have been informed of this during his briefing at Eighth Army , and obviously it was no less important for Macmillan to brief Keightley than for him to brief Harding . |
| 8 | This is an important area in which you can help him a great deal if you can make him feel that with you open grieving is permissible . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that in itself creates strain . ’ |
| 10 | And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation . |
| 11 | It was designed for use with a computer having a spare ROM ( or RAM ) location and for which read/write control is performed by a single line producing a write pulse . |
| 12 | Michele 's silvery-green eyes seemed to look straight into her brain , and for what seemed minutes , but could only have been split-seconds , Luce stood paralysed , before shaking her head . |
| 13 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 14 | We make sure and many of our tenants , of course , are in receipt of housing benefit , those on the lowest incomes , and for them housing benefit will meet most , if not all , of the increase , but there are many tenants who do n't get housing benefit who will have to pay the increase themselves . |
| 15 | Many patients will be having problems with their partners and for them conjoint treatment will often be appropriate . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't know it , ’ the cabbie replied , and for one heart-stopping moment Chant thought he was going to drive on . |
| 17 | The door , — like most of the building that originally stood around it ! — is mid-fifteenth-century and through it went members of the family whose name is now attached to it , even though the family palazzo was elsewhere . |
| 18 | Bicker led , and after him came Ratagan and Riven , Isay and Luib , then Tagan and Rimir and finally Darmid and Corrary leading the pack mules . |
| 19 | ‘ And after you left school ? ’ |
| 20 | Such a summer now stared her in the face , for she had , through indecision , failed to fix herself up any foreign excursions ; she looked towards it and towards her approaching examinations , and felt sadly weak . |
| 21 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 22 | The fertile biochemistry of forests constantly racked and renewed by volcanic eruption — which once prevailed throughout the cooling surface of the globe — still continues in Indonesia , and amongst her trembling islands we find time-capsules of our earliest beginnings , when dragons stalked the earth . |
| 23 | And underneath everything lies trust . |
| 24 | In 1825 Thanet died , and with him went Creevey 's ambition to be a politician . |
| 25 | And with him comes Ciullo d'Alcamo , whose ‘ Rosa Fresca aulentissima ’ was translated by D.G. Rossetti : ‘ Thou sweetly-smelling fresh red rose/ That near thy summer art … . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The first command was ‘ Let the gases which are scattered throughout space be collected together and with them let worlds be formed ’ , then the gases were brought together into whirling circulating masses [ Nebulae ] . ’ |
| 27 | For when there is little actual communication , barriers soon go up , and with them come misunderstandings , conflict and anger . |
| 28 | They won a penalty just after half-time when Martin Ling was pulled down , but Craig Maskell threw the kick away and with it went Swindon 's chances . |
| 29 | Brandy arrived and with it came Mary , carrying a wrap , aromatic salts and a fan , ready for any eventuality . |
| 30 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |