Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans for Trident continued apace . |
| 2 | Yet the warning signs for England flashed brightly during victories over Divisional champions the Midlands , an England B team containing nine internationals and the North on Tuesday night . |
| 3 | Rehearsals for Hamlet started tomorrow , followed by a six-week tour of the provinces , and now Beryl was talking about another show ! |
| 4 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 5 | In a more serious vein , the attribution to me of the statement that Super-SARA was a tremendous hindrance to negotiations for a LOFT consortium was a surprise to me and , I submit , to anyone who knew that the funds for Super-SARA had already been set aside . |
| 6 | In contrast , the Districts of Warwickshire experienced very little actual change in their assessed expenditure needs per head over the three years , with relatively small increases and decreases , although their ranking alters dramatically . |
| 7 | The concentrations of ClO remained extremely low during these periods because air at the temperature minimum was in darkness at the model output time ( 00:00 ) . |
| 8 | The words of Hansard speak little , but the Division lists say it all : they are padded with payroll . |
| 9 | There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong . |
| 10 | Apart from this case , traces of HIV had previously been attested in a blood sample collected from a patient in Zaire in 1959 and in an American man who died in 1969 . |
| 11 | Behind them the dominions of Russia marched eastward through eleven time zones to the borders of China . |
| 12 | The guards behind Rincewind backed away , and their captain took a few paces to the right . |
| 13 | Without doubt , the concentration of some incomers in estates has tended to limit their chances for establishing close social relationships with Shetlanders living nearby . |
| 14 | Another academic suggested that Clinton 's ties with Britain lie only in his Oxford education , that he lacks the sentimental camaraderie of the last generation of US presidents who remembered , first hand , Britain as a redoubtable ally first against fascism and then communism . |
| 15 | Japan 's strong economic ties with Taiwan have largely withstood the shift in allegiance . |
| 16 | Those few short months with Tony seemed sometimes like a dream to her . |
| 17 | Guinness drinkers in Indonesia had long believed in the recuperative powers of Foreign Extra Stout and this has not changed today . |
| 18 | Boxing fans from Hull have already sent him £50 . |
| 19 | The history of the past two centuries in Britain demonstrates very clearly that both ‘ need ’ and ‘ capacity ’ are socially constructed . |
| 20 | Over 50% of the land cleared to produce hamburgers in Brazil has now been exhausted and abandoned . |
| 21 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
| 22 | It 's been talking to OSF about just these kinds of things , and would ( of course ) , like to do more than simply participate in such an effort if it could , though the smoke signals from OSF read simply ‘ message received , ’ for the present . |
| 23 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 24 | If those brothers in Comus had really been anxious about their sisters would they have stood around spouting poetry ? |
| 25 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 26 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 27 | The author traces the lively thirteenth-century silk trade , as contacts grew with China and traders from Genoa bought ever greater quantities of Persian silk , much of it used to embellish the homes of a prospering merchant class in Europe 's expanding towns . |
| 28 | By the 1960s parties in California had relatively little to do with campaigning : The state of California in the 1960s thus offered a singularly appropriate training ground for an aspirant national politician . |
| 29 | The two environmentalist parties in France have both scored successes in regional elections . |
| 30 | At the other end of the scale GM 's long-expressed desire to achieve significant sales of its US cars in Europe has finally settled down to more realistic levels . |