Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1830s they were being criticized for despoiling ‘ the crystalline beauties ’ of the local caves , or in other words bearing off as trophies the stalactites and stalagmites . |
| 2 | However , after dark the plants and algae stop producing oxygen and instead use it to respire . |
| 3 | The chances are you wo n't sleep much though , because Monday is the big market day in Cavaillon and soon after midnight the carts and lorries and vans of the big fruit farmers ' co-operatives , of the market gardeners , of the tomato and garlic and onion growers , will start rattling and roaring and rumbling into the great open market in the place du Clos . |
| 4 | Aye it did a lot of damage the dykes and that . |
| 5 | Familiar ways in which such participant-roles are encoded in language are of course the pronouns and their associated predicate agreements . |
| 6 | And of course the deterrents that we 've had , over the years , when they they 've been of the emotive and knee jerk sort , and I remember the short sharp shock for instance , under Whitelaw , they did n't work , because they were n't thought out , they were just to make them clap at the Tory party conference . |
| 7 | Of course the sceptics and the doubters will sneer at the influence on the affair exercised by Dicky saying that the former route was unsuitable and geographically unstable , and they will point out that such conditions have been overcome in other parts , for example , the West Highland , the Liverpool and Manchester and the Settle and Carlisle , but then those conversant with Dicky o' Tunstead will continue to believe that it is his malign influence which kept the rails away from Tunstead Farm . |
| 8 | Yes and one can imagine that it might be like that , but of course the women that we meet at university are those who have become scientists very often . |
| 9 | Yes I know what Chairman yes of course the bridleways and bridleway then you expect to find er the horse has been along |
| 10 | But of course the children that were born yesterday , fifteen years ago , are already there as the parents for tomorrow , so their population will continue to grow in very large numbers , but will begin to tail off . |
| 11 | On the other hand , a critic who represents object texts in a mode akin to free indirect speech operates under an obligation to represent with some degree of fidelity the texts that he or she purports to ventriloquise . |
| 12 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 13 | History is essentially to do with personal development in that it takes as the object of study the roots and origins of groups and those of individuals and examines how they have changed over time . |
| 14 | I found the three most important things for me yesterday were the span of conception the clusters and the whole subject of nerves . |
| 15 | Editor , — Graham Butland describes with good intention and formidable lack of insight the procedures that will destroy general practice . |
| 16 | Orcadian dialect it 's often said has no words of endearment no dears or darlings but I think perhaps came as near to it as any word . |
| 17 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 18 | Er My Lords I do not see within this of amendments the answers that we want , I see two or three narrow misses . |
| 19 | Evidence of pre-emptive patenting is the type of information the Monopolies and Mergers Commission seeks in evaluating whether incumbents are abusing their market power . |
| 20 | In families where they are able to identify good characteristics at the beginning of treatment the parents and child may have a sufficiently positive relationship to move directly into this phase . |
| 21 | Dig out your binoculars for lowland walks which can turn out to be wildlife treats because at this time of year the estuaries and low-lying areas around our coast are teeming with birdlife . |
| 22 | Their destination was the small town of Krk where they handed the aid to representatives of Feed the Children and the Croatian Red Cross . |
| 23 | I do n't think , I do n't think it will , I think erm certainly from a cultural point of view the questions that comes up of erm in that type of society they think sod this I 'm going hunting , but the fact of the matter is the men . |
| 24 | From the Communist point of view the witch-hunts and loyalty tests of the United States must have looked like the little puffs of smoke and flame of a stage dragon which fooled nobody . |
| 25 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 26 | In some parts of Pomerania the Poles and Kaszubians together may have outnumbered the Germans , but along the river Notec there were no Kaszubians at all , and German settlers planted in a block by the Prussian Colonisation Commission outnumbered Poles by two to one . |
| 27 | Consider the case of gnash the teeth and purse the lips . |
| 28 | For days the officers and men had rehearsed a farewell concert . |
| 29 | What with the flower sellers and the blind musician , the old man at his sewing machine , the two sisters selling maps of Delhi by the roadside and two others collecting camel dung for fuel the sights and sound if not the actual smell came flooding back , even though it 's 40 years since I was last there . |
| 30 | Then , Siward 's father had submitted to Olaf , but before ten years had gone by , his father had finished his dialogue with Olaf 's enemy Canute , tucked the Lapp fur-monopoly under his belt , and shared with Kalv the blows that killed King Olaf at Stiklestad . |