Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he told his bosses in London who have now provided him with round-the-clock protection for fear he could be in the sights of an IRA killer gang . |
| 2 | In preparation for winter it will be busy putting on fat by eating all the wild fruit that it can find , and by making a nuisance of itself feeding on produce growing in the kitchen garden . |
| 3 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 4 | In any fight for Kirsty he would definitely have the edge . |
| 5 | Gaybours everybody needs a gaybour get some money for petrol I 'll be round the town later on |
| 6 | We can make laws and regulations about pollution or wildlife trade until we are blue in the face , but without enough money for enforcement they will not be effective . |
| 7 | It was ironic that now everybody in our district had plenty of money for food they could n't obtain it because everything was rationed . |
| 8 | It was held that where an absolute owner brings an action for trespass he must prove title and an intention to regain possession . |
| 9 | So when choosing a card for tuck you should not be able to count more than four blanks vertically anywhere on the card . |
| 10 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 11 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 12 | And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk . |
| 13 | ‘ And if you can prove you need your car for work they wo n't take your licence away , ’ Elinor added . |
| 14 | The main problem with this theory is that because of the nature of judicial review for illegality it would , in many cases , be extremely difficult , if not theoretically impossible , for a plaintiff to prove a causal link between the illegal action and the loss suffered . |
| 15 | ‘ What a deal of nuisance we could all have saved ourselves , ’ remarked Carnelian 's voice . |
| 16 | I have some sympathy for the Home Secretary in these matters , he is not an Officer of State who over-occupies the position for whom I normally have a great deal of sympathy I must confess , er but on this occasion I do have some sympathy . |
| 17 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 18 | And I mean , there 's , you know , the people who smoke need a boost of nicotine they 'll go and get |
| 19 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 20 | Without loss of generality we may take |
| 21 | Without any loss of generality we can take AOB to be in the equatorial plane of the parent star so that the acceleration is purely in the coordinate φ . |
| 22 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 23 | The common features of a course for future accountants , managers , bankers and teachers are to be found in the educational purposes of the academic study of literatures and languages — and where these include study of language it must still be in terms of common interests and not the sectional approach of linguistics for language teachers . |
| 24 | The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change . |
| 25 | If a dose dependent increase in gastric acid secretion occurs in response to intravenous infusion of ethanol it must be in the lower dose range . |
| 26 | It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal . |
| 27 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 28 | We decide on which piece of equipment we will buy next . |
| 29 | However , if a Night Goblin shaman eats a piece of mushroom he can use magic even if there are no other Orcs or Goblins near . |
| 30 | ‘ So Ryan 's stuck with a piece of land he ca n't develop and can only sell as it stands at market value ? ’ she asked , beginning to enjoy the irony of it . |