Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Satisfaction and horror jostle for position on his face .
2 An additional provision should be made in the profit and loss account for replacement of rail passenger assets .
3 These results support the hypothesis that complications in Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus develop in association with increased exposure of the oesophagus to an alkaline environment which appears to be secondary to duodenogastric reflux .
4 Staff who take such a break remain on contract to Shell .
5 The Gould theory reaches a polar opposite conclusion to that advanced by Gordon , and , as we have seen , certain members of the judiciary appear in favour of extensive review .
6 The initial examination of the corpse was conducted by Professor Usher in consultation with Professor John Emery , a colleague at Sheffield University .
7 It is necessary to do so because training resources are limited and because the morale and motivation of the teaching force depend on satisfaction with what is offered — indeed , on opportunities to negotiate what is available with course providers .
8 You can easily carry your BOND Sweater Machine from room to room or even take it on holiday with you .
9 The precise details and mechanics of long-firm fraud vary from case to case , and many are exceedingly complex .
10 Nicandra 's little Nettie stayed behind too , she scuffled around in the undergrowth alert for game of any sort — a blackbird squatting low , or a rabbit with fear in its silly eyes .
11 The occult views yoga as a system of mind-control , and the postures adopted are to facilitate certain types of breathing to help the practitioner get in union with the force .
12 GIANT-KILLERS Featherstone Rovers have been handed a plum Regal Trophy draw at home to high-flying St Helens .
13 Ministers and officials of my Department keep in touch with the CBI on a wide range of business matters .
14 Ministers and officials of my Department keep in touch with the CBI on a wide range of matters .
15 The index and the future differ in respect of the times at which they value the basket of shares in the index , and this can be a source of additional information .
16 Is the Minister aware that the Opposition approve in principle of measures to enhance the cost effectiveness of our magistrates courts system ?
17 Whether Congress and the President behave in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is beside the point .
18 One is that descendants of the marginal stock enter into competition with the parental stock in a third area of colonization .
19 Pulses of dissolved silica develop in response to the net rates of sand-grain dissolution and of precipitation of secondary minerals .
20 Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’
21 Only then can the emphasis switch from confrontation to co-operation , the attitude shift from apathy to enthusiasm .
22 Well you said that er as I recall , that if you had a major proposal say for example within the centre of Easingwold ,
23 where the services in question consist of carriage by air or by sea our obligations and liabilities are limited in the manner provided by international conventions in respect of air and sea carriers .
24 The constitution and composition of this committee vary from school to school , as does its relationship with other parts of the school 's bureaucracy ( curriculum and resource sub-committees , senior management team etc . ) .
25 Alastair Fowler has argued that Williams and other critics have overstated this tendency and that the emphases on labour , hospitality , and architecture vary from poem to poem and over time .
26 Parents can entrust their offspring to the Mini-Club which is located between the beach and the square which offers supervised activities for 2–11 year olds and an adventure playground open from morning until evening .
27 Those tribunals with their own appellate tribunal do not enjoy the appeal to the High Court , but appeals on points of law lie with leave to the Court of Appeal from the EAT , Social Security Commissioners , and thereafter to the House of Lords .
28 The particles produced in this glacial mill vary in size from rocks to silt .
29 Not , thought Robert , that there would be much anyone could do should the Twenty-fourth Imam decide to loon around SW19 behaving like a negative version of Superman .
30 ‘ I must admit , though , that I 've never had a lady go to sleep on me before . ’
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