Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Players such as Davy Jackson want to complete the set of medals — Barton and |
| 2 | But doubts about G Tec have spread beyond California , in Baltimore , Maryland , the company also operates the state lottery , here too the awarding of contracts is being scrutinized , a forty nine million dollar contract to provide a popular computerized casino game called Keyknow is being investigated by a grand jury . |
| 3 | Geoffrey Fitzpeter had intended these to be large , for King John had granted to him and his heirs by Aveline the castle and honour of Berkhamsted . |
| 4 | writers such as Colin MacCabe have stressed the importance of the spoken language . |
| 5 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 6 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 7 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 8 | A more recent survey by the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching covering 4 LEAs reaches the same verdict particularly with regard to the inadequacy of training ( 2 ) . |
| 9 | It was as if the hunt for Lucy Ashdown had spread to take over his world from one horizon to the other and everything else , every essential concern and unanswered question , had been crowded out at the edges . |
| 10 | For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 11 | Defending solicitor Bob Emuss said that problems for Mrs. White had come to a head last February . |
| 12 | Two at least of the features — consciousness and conspiracy — are difficult to operationalise and rarely demonstrated satisfactorily by empirical means ; direct empirical evidence for common objectives and awareness of group consciousness is not easy to envisage , because of the nature of the referents , and it is not surprising therefore that elite theorists such as Wright Mills have tended to use their sociological imagination to provide a plausible construct of indirect evidential demonstration . |
| 13 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 14 | In fact it has nothing to do with political affiliations at all , since admiration and support for Rigoberta Menchu has come from all sides . |
| 15 | Your questions on Monday , Juliet , about Lilian Parsons had bothered her . ’ |
| 16 | October 92 was a particularly ‘ caring ’ edition of Shell World — equally mouthwatering photography illustrated a crisis relief centre set up by Shell Oil 's staff and dealers after Hurricane Andrew had devastated huge areas of the United States , and young entrepreneurs cheerfully at work on the Shell-initiated Livewire youth enterprise programme in Britain . |
| 17 | Married after finals Pam has continued research in plant anatomy in collaboration with her husband in England and Australia as well as bringing up a family of three . |
| 18 | Carroll Dunham 's ever-loosening , ever more colourful anthropomorphisms are at Sonnabend ( 6 to 27 February ) and uptown at Pace Douglass Baxter has curated a show of new , thickly-impastoed paintings by Antoni Tapies , the veteran Barcelona artist . |
| 19 | Lawyers handling his affairs had then dumped the boat on the market just after Wall Street had had one of its periodic crashes . |
| 20 | Day after day Charles sat waiting for something to happen , but nothing ever did . |
| 21 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 22 | He and Mackay put on 97 in 72 minutes , extending Australia 's total to 348 , which proved enough for a seven wicket victory after West Indies failed to avoid the follow-on . |
| 23 | It took place immediately after Air France had turned in a loss of 685 million francs . |
| 24 | But Ballynahinch 's superior fitness showed late in the game when Mark Lucas opened the scoring with a fly-hit after umpire Brown had blown for a free . |
| 25 | But Anton Rogan scored his first goal for the club with a perfectly-hit volley from the edge of the box in the 31st minute after goalkeeper Digweed had punched away a corner from a jaded-looking Atkinson . |
| 26 | After breakfast John wanted to explore , so Nick drove Sara , Carla and peter into the nearest town . |
| 27 | Two undistinguished international seasons , only token involvement with the Lions in Australia and bitter controversy about South Africa have combined to give the game in Ireland possibly the worst public profile it has had . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , red islands in other places such as South Wales have forced state intervention in the form of major industrial investments . |
| 29 | Anyway … off Boy Bradshaw beetled to see Colonel Bumface … . ’ |
| 30 | Quickly she thought back to the day that the deeds for Maran Hill had arrived . |