Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No doubt there will be some complicated arguments about the concept of recklessness in the civil courts since this concept , commonplace in the criminal courts , is rarely paraded in front of the civil judge . |
| 32 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 33 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 34 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 35 | There followed a long wrangle over Benedict 's future , which Sir John Merchiston eventually won by virtue of the fact that Robert Beckenham 's new wife was delivered of a boy . |
| 36 | Not out of the radio sets themselves , mind you , but — about a month after legalization — he flogged cassette tapes on ‘ How to keep a conversation going on CB ’ , with a follow-up manual listing good ‘ handles ’ ( mostly pinched from Lord of the Rings ) for Citizen Banders with absolutely no imagination . |
| 37 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 38 | The dynastic struggle was eventually resolved in favour of the Habsburgs , but not before the death of Zápolya in 1540 . |
| 39 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 40 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 41 | James Howe attended the village school in Skirling but left still young and incompletely educated on account of his deafness . |
| 42 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 43 | A lot of accidents occur on slides , for instance , which are mostly designed for use by seven to 12-year-olds , but which in practice are used more by preschoolers . |
| 44 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 45 | Iceland : the Althing , which began to discuss the agreement on Aug. 17 , eventually voted in favour of ratification — requiring only a simple majority — on Jan. 12 , 1993 . |
| 46 | Consciousness appears to be almost wholly dominated by language as the medium of thought and expression , so that the entire surface of cognitive processes and voluntary responses appears to be channelled through language . |
| 47 | In each case , therefore , the agreement between the parties or the court order should be properly carried into effect by way of a conveyance , severance , transfer or declaration of trust , the form of which is the subject of this chapter . |
| 48 | Ronni scowled at him , suddenly filled with alarm at the way his arm was round her waist and at the way her body longed to sink unresisting against it . |
| 49 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 50 | Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back . |
| 51 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 52 | The bandicoots and the wombats are both diggers , excavating long burrows in search of their food . |
| 53 | This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success . |
| 54 | Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting . |
| 55 | From this base he mounted a successful practice executing public works and speculative building on the grandest scale , only halted by bankruptcy in the financial crash of 1793 . |
| 56 | Rather , Poulantzas says , ‘ What makes them function concretely as a distinct class , as a social force , is in fact the historical phenomenon of Bonapartism ’ , thus seeming to imply that the two are interconnected in such a way that each can only exist in conjunction with the other . |
| 57 | It seems rather ironic that Stratford Mill , which was better placed for access to the transport system and a water supply , should be the first to go . |
| 58 | Further Cabinet changes followed the resignation in mid-September of Minister of State for Finance , Economy and the Budget Said Ali Kemal , hitherto regarded as second in the government only to Djohar . |
| 59 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 60 | Actor Bill Roache , alias Ken Barlow , added : ‘ The cast is all filled with admiration for the way they sustain the standards of our scripts . ’ |