Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had drunk his port and now snapped his fingers for Midnight to pour another glass . |
| 2 | There have been urgent calls for action to end all production of ozone-depleters such as CFCs well ahead of the 2000 deadline set by the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 3 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
| 4 | This is why I decided to draw Love and Protection to try and raise much needed funds for ETA to continue this valuable work . |
| 5 | This is why I decided to draw Love and Protection to try and raise much needed funds for ETA to continue this valuable work . |
| 6 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 7 | But other opportunities for recreation remained few . |
| 8 | Sandys hoped to reduce the risks of failure to reach this figure by making regular military service a more attractive long-term career . |
| 9 | Thus ‘ all the main characteristics of recording echo those of the folk mode ’ ( ibid : 287 ) , though qualitatively transformed ( for instance , any sound is available ) . |
| 10 | He went on : ‘ The recent indicators of GDP confirm this gloomy world picture . |
| 11 | THE ‘ shop till I drop ’ syndrome evident in the 1980s has all but left the scene and , as increasing waves of redundancy hit all ranks — and officers — a more penny-pinching approach is in order . |
| 12 | She was floating , eyes closed , the waves of desire obliterating any other thoughts . |
| 13 | Characteristically within traditional professions such as Law and Medicine , it would have been beyond the bounds of decency to put any of one 's peers or the profession itself in a morally ambiguous or cynical light . |
| 14 | Should considerations of efficiency dominate those of welfare ? |
| 15 | This superbly staged meeting between the two heads of state did little to further the peace process in the Middle East . |
| 16 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 17 | Whether these concentrations of ROM resemble those found in the mucosa in inflammatory bowel disease in vivo is unclear . |
| 18 | The fact that seeds could be carried for hundreds of miles by strong winds allowed the supporters of dispersal to explain any case of anomalous distribution by invoking such an accidental circumstance . |
| 19 | In the second term the units of study relate much more to the major areas of interest of the Faculty , with students planning their own route through the available specialist units . |
| 20 | hard on the heels of wimbledon comes another British institution and that 's the Royal Rowing Regatta at Henley … the women were there at the weekend and that 's where we start our roundup |
| 21 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |
| 22 | Some aspects of drowsiness fit this mould . |
| 23 | But behind the more bizarre , outlandish aspects of ufology lie some phenomena worthy of study |
| 24 | However , it is also informed by more rigorous approaches to language — those of generative linguistics and formal semantics — and this greater leaning towards formalism can be seen both in its treatment of integration and construction , and in the attention it pays to aspects of language processing such as parsing . |
| 25 | All aspects of flying require this combination of understanding and self-discipline , and the vital actions make a good starting point . |
| 26 | In any case , the words of Scripture contradict such ideas . |
| 27 | The market in the Pacific Basin is expected to continue its rapid growth and the challenge for LASMO is to find additional reserves of gas to supply this growing demand . |
| 28 | ENGLAND 'S cricketers dug deep into their last remaining reserves of energy to salvage some pride in the fierce heat of Colombo yesterday |
| 29 | ENGLAND dug deep into their last remaining reserves of energy to salvage some pride in the fierce heat of Colombo yesterday . |
| 30 | The result of social and cognitive tests administered to the children between the ages of one and three obliged the authors to conclude that their data provided ‘ little or no support for the notion that how a mother interacts with her baby during the baby 's first few months of life has any particular consequences for later social or cognitive development ’ . |