Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people could recite its slogan , ‘ Every seven minutes someone passes with BSM ’ ( now in fact it is more like every six minutes ) . |
| 2 | The visitor to Hong Kong is able to experience an appealing combination of cultural and sporting events , including the Festival of Asian Arts which occurs during autumn , and the Mid Autumn Festival , when families cluster around candles and lanterns under the full moon . |
| 3 | Currently the Commission is , however , considering giving grants towards pilot restoration projects in Venice , invoking the special clause of the structural funds which allows for grants to urban areas outside declining or under-developed regions . |
| 4 | With the exception of a small group of public schools , there is the apparently simple distinction between state schools and Roman catholic schools which occurs in Britain . |
| 5 | He repeatedly complained of being old beyond his years , and yet behind his words one senses at times an element of satisfaction . |
| 6 | This view is developed in a way which partly reduplicates the misleading tactics he identifies at work in the 1950s . |
| 7 | The society 's board of trustees is hoping that at least part of the funds it needs by June will come from government sources : in response to a stampede of scholars from around the world who invaded the library in what were to be its final days last month , local government provided an emergency $66,000 to keep the library open until 2 April . |
| 8 | Like all goals it develops in childhood . |
| 9 | East and South restores the balance of exhibitions in terms of gender , the type of work it displays , the cities it takes place in and the opportunities it offers to artists . |
| 10 | Its appeal , he said , is the excitement it generates in the search for off the wall ideas … not to mention the opportunities it creates for involvement in radio . |
| 11 | If the foreigner made that transfer in the past before he became ordinarily resident here the clause would not apply to him because in its opening words it refers to individuals ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind . |
| 13 | Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest is a must and of the large Shavian canon I suggest you read St Joan and The Doctor 's Dilemma or Major Barbara to get a clear idea of his style and the kind of demands he makes of actors verbally . |
| 14 | The Department of the Environment admits it is almost impossible to recruit the calibre of inspectors it wants on salaries starting at about £15,000 . |
| 15 | Dickens Data Systems Inc has picked up Data General Corp 's Clariion storage system to distribute for the IBM RS/6000 servers it resells to US VARs . |
| 16 | A sign told visiting gentlemen to remove their hats ; it was the kind of sign you 'd see in the Duomo in Florence ; in some parts of America , war still demands what passes for reverence . |
| 17 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
| 18 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
| 19 | The parade consists of a procession of floats [ many of which are transported on Wood Group Offshore lorries ] , bands and entertainers which proceeds down Union Street to the Beach Boulevard . |
| 20 | There is a gradient of values which increases from north to south . |
| 21 | In other words , there is a choice in settlement sites which depends on value-judgements and what people want to do . |
| 22 | A procedure for the righting of wrongs which depends on peace-making and on the payment of enough compensation to make the peace hold , implies a different notion of justice from that embodied in a penal code in which offences are offences against the state . |
| 23 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |
| 24 | This approach certainly does offer a basis for analysing texts which touches upon aspects of likely response that no traditional readability formula would measure . |
| 25 | He says ‘ the demand for the all-round grocery clerk , fruiterer and vegetable dealer , dairyman , butcher , and so forth , has long ago been replaced by a labor configuration in the supermarkets which calls for truck unloaders , shelf stockers , checkout clerks , meat wrappers , and meat cutters ; of these only the last retain any semblance of skill , and none require any general knowledge of retail trade ’ . |
| 26 | Another grouping can be between organic and inorganic soils which relates to alkali soluble and acid soluble soils . |
| 27 | Although none of the words she utters professionally is her own , fragments of the lectures she translates at conferences constantly invade her thoughts . |
| 28 | The flu virus varies in its structure and it varies in its ability , in the type of antibodies it produces in people . |
| 29 | The reality of such disability is evident in the limitations it imposes on aspects of everyday life . |
| 30 | Also the flower shirts and the unctuous neckerchiefs , and that kaftan or dhoti he dons at weekends — white , and similar in cut to his surgical smock but with different associations . |