Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of publication , a creation of the age of printing , begins to evaporate as printing yields its monopoly in the world of communication ; so , even more disturbingly , does a more fundamental concept which long antedates printing , that of the stable document . |
| 2 | Science for instance makes its contribution by studiously avoiding social and political comment : it thus misses the way that it is inextricably bound up with dominant values , amongst them attitudes which assume ethnocentric and nationalistic positions . |
| 3 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 4 | For example , when a householder is in the market for double-glazing does he resort to Yellow Pages , take the advice of a neighbour , or depend on one of the well-known and heavily advertised names ? |
| 5 | In Maus I , a friend of Vladek hands her baby over to strangers for protection . |
| 6 | Sophisticated elite theorists do not jump from correlations linking the social backgrounds and formal political power of an elite to causal assumptions that their background or network of contacts determines their behaviour . |
| 7 | Motivation of course plays its part and in Hunt 's case , lamentably , it was quite clear that the overriding motivation was waning fast . |
| 8 | The author , Giancarlo Ferraris , of course earns our gratitude for his achievement in amassing so much largely fresh documentation on the famous cabinet maker Pietro Piffetti and on a flush of other Turinese baroque and rococo furniture-makers . |
| 9 | InterCity of course has its light and dark grey with a red band under the windows , while Scotrail established its own blue band instead of red . |
| 10 | Adam probably knows more about the Cairngorms than anyone , which of course explains his absence . |
| 11 | But the Duke of Marlborough says his son and heir , who 's a former drug addict , has n't even contacted HIM . |
| 12 | Marx 's own , very limited , account of ideology describes its inability to represent real relations because of its generation as abstract ideas and its origin in particular social relations . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , only a dribble of money finds its way into the provision of hydrants . |
| 14 | Some kind of flicker crosses my face . |
| 15 | Our own Planning Committee County Council Planning Committee recommends route A on environmental and ecological grounds and route A is the popular choice the town speak and the Brandon Action Group and indeed the Suffolk member of Parliament , however the Norfolk County Council and the Weeting Parish Council oppose for the day and the Norfolk Member of Parliament supports their case , worth noting that Breckland District Council , the local planning authority in Norfolk also opposes for a day , now though it appears to be so this is not altogether a case of |
| 16 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 17 | According to this reading , the repetition of episodes and the lack of a linear structure can be regarded as being in keeping with the formal realism of a narrative which is being conducted by someone whose overwrought state of mind colours his perception of the world around him , and who is no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality . |
| 18 | Love The Full Moon in your Seventh House of relationships exposes your partner 's feelings in a dramatic way . |
| 19 | Freud 's comment on dreams of exposure was , … the dream of nakedness demands our attention only when shame and embarrassment are felt in it , when one wishes to escape or to hide , and when one feels the strange inhibition of being unable to stir from the spot , and of being utterly powerless to alter the painful situation … |
| 20 | But at the same time we have been told that even the phial of Galadriel loses its virtue on Mount Doom , for there Frodo is at ‘ the heart of the realm of Sauron … all other powers were here subdued ’ . |
| 21 | So much discussion of disruption loses its way with attention wandering from one priority to another . |
| 22 | It is this : the pain of loss corrupts our waking hours , what we think is a beautiful light from the imagination is the gleam of poison cast over the furnishings of our minds . |
| 23 | Suddenly the siren on the fire truck begins to wail , and a caravan of cars winds its way out towards the edge of town . |
| 24 | Yet every afternoon , a group of journalists weaves its way along several gloomy corridors and up various flights of stairs to a cold , windy place with impressive views over the gilded roof of the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Bridge and the River Thames . |
| 25 | Often , a flash of azure draws you eye to a kingfisher , speeding like an Exocet missile a couple of feet above the water . |
| 26 | 1360 The Ottilia of Talabecland declares herself Empress . |
| 27 | This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence . |
| 28 | The Dwarfs are forced to watch the number of beard scalps grow day by day , while by night the pounding war drums of the Night Goblins and the screaming of captives haunts their sleep . |
| 29 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 30 | Frequently the perhaps unconscious arrogance of presenters invokes their saying to those they are interviewing , ‘ What you are saying is … ’ rather than ‘ Are you saying that .. ? ’ |