Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand it was necessary to acquire an elementary understanding of the issues involved , examine previous work on measuring the required parameters and in particular learn something about canopy structure so as to assess the extent to which it would need to be taken into consideration . |
| 2 | Further , and hence We now have the embarrassing impossibility of a negative sum of squares and must conclude that method ( b ) is unsatisfactory for computer use even though it is the more practicable for hand calculation . |
| 3 | ‘ We have very little money in the bank but this match is so important to us that , cash or no cash , I have booked the team into a posh hotel for Saturday night so that we can get the right preparation . |
| 4 | For example , Professor Peckham quoted a director of public health who said that people did not ask about research evidence even when making difficult decisions . |
| 5 | I had three a year and of course in between times you go we had quarter fare if we want to go anywhere , you see and er of course it was the old money in those days and I would come from Ipswich to see my parents here for sixpence halfpenny then and er , you see , I used to go on holiday alone . |
| 6 | The ‘ mid EQ ’ preset on channel 2 has the effect of tightening up the sound while adding a little more in the way of mid/top frequencies — a bit like playing a Strat and switching between neck pickup only and middle'n'bridge . |
| 7 | specific rules set out for stock provisioning rather than directors ' estimates . |
| 8 | At present the crèche operates during term time only but it is envisaged that it will eventually open outside term , subject to demand . |
| 9 | At present the crèche operates during term time only but it is envisaged that it will eventually open outside term , subject to demand . |
| 10 | It is , as the title implies , a book about action research rather than all types of research . |
| 11 | Would the minister like to say , like to welcome that initiative but also to ensure that the money which the South Thames tech are going to be able to put into that will be able to continue and not only continue in that one but to allow the increase of this after school provision so that those many women in my constituency and who , the many women in South London who are unemployed , will have the opportunity to get back to work and get back to training with that very necessary provision for child care . |
| 12 | From seven to half past eight I work in my garden ; from breakfast till 12 I read & compose ; then work again — feed the pigs , poultry & c , till two o'clock — after dinner work again till Tea-from Tea till supper review . |
| 13 | THE sounds of the Scottish Highlands will ring through Hyde Park today as thousands of pipers and drummers flood the Capital . |
| 14 | We will raise the tax threshold for Inheritance Tax so that the homes and savings of an increasing number of our citizens can pass unencumbered from one generation to another . |
| 15 | During Question Time today and this involves your position , Mr. Speaker the Secretary of State said that he could not deal adequately with the question on the Order Paper in the name of my Hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) because there was not enough time in a parliamentary answer . |
| 16 | In January 1629 the king knighted Vermuyden at Whitehall , and a month later he sold him his royal manor of Hatfield for £10,000 cash down and an annual interest of £195. 3s. 5d. and a red rose . |
| 17 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 18 | The scheme is seen as work experience rather than as a ‘ parenting ’ class , but the spin-off could benefit the families of the future . |
| 19 | Designed for glide ratio rather than aerobatics , the paragliders nevertheless can teach the foil-kite designer something , just as we strongly suspect they in turn , had already learned from the Flexifoil . |
| 20 | I 'll give her a face and a heck of hair wash tonight but |
| 21 | See the tufts of hair spring out and the clitoris bulge . |
| 22 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 23 | ‘ Even as the world developed its enormous appetite for our end-products and chemical building blocks , we had this habit of building capacity faster than demand . |
| 24 | you 're losing your concentration , it 's very interesting but materials list there , types of building list there and I 'm going to the loo and I 'll come back . |
| 25 | I would need to revise my knowledge of patient/client confidentiality so that I may not inadvertently be in breach of proper professional conduct . |
| 26 | Recognition of differences and the acknowledgement of attachment struggle together and are major difficulties . |
| 27 | It follows that reform can never be guaranteed to work ( as of course research well and truly confirms ) . |
| 28 | Market forces are pushing their way into the whole arena of debt servicing and conditions of grant aid so that the international rhetoric is moving away from comprehensive Primary Health Care to ‘ cost recovery ’ . |
| 29 | The opposite case , where the departure from the norm is in the direction of sentence complexity rather than simplicity , is illustrated in Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea : the culmination of the Old Man 's battle with the fish is related in ( for Hemingway ) unusually complex sentences , conveying a climactic frenzy of movement against the background of Hemingway 's more usual simplicity of style . |
| 30 | Since he had ten minutes of lunch-break left he strolled into the canteen and sat down with Hickson , one of his more elderly colleagues — an avuncular type , deep in local politics , and decidedly cynical about Greg 's attempts to resuscitate an era of Oswaldston history long and thankfully closed . |