Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us not have pious words about timetabling Bills every time that there is a debate on a guillotine motion , only to find that nothing happens . |
| 2 | For climbing information the campground is the best source , and the only place to buy guidebooks . |
| 3 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 4 | Struggling to play her normal serve and volley game after undergoing surgery a month ago , Durie dropped the second set but hit back strongly in the third . |
| 5 | But boss Atkinson warned : ‘ We need to be on our guard after giving Oxford the lifeline of a late goal at their place in the opening leg . |
| 6 | After giving pupils a variety of tests , he was able to divide the pupils into two basic types : convergers and divergers . |
| 7 | At five o'clock , after giving Faye a foot massage to stimulate circulation , Belinda was free for the evening , and the unfinished painting was put away in Faye 's studio at the back of the house to dry over the weekend . |
| 8 | He emerged from a cage which had been suspended 25 feet down a shaft at Markham Main colliery , near Doncaster , after handing police a shotgun . |
| 9 | After hearing argument the trial judge acceded to those submissions and ordered a stay of proceedings . |
| 10 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |
| 11 | After leaving school the situation of course is different , although the position of young wage earners in the household may well have depended upon the employment opportunities available for them in the local economy . |
| 12 | After leaving Kidderminster the train ran to Bewdley where a reversal took place for the train to run onto part of the spur of the former Stourport line . |
| 13 | Soviet steel mills need 346,000 tonnes of coking coal a day but are getting only 200,000 . |
| 14 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 15 | On the second point , that of allowing youngsters a chance to ‘ have a look ’ at the pro game , I suspect it will have little effect . |
| 16 | In the example of positive excitation of winding A the stator and rotor teeth are aligned under poles 3,7 of section X and poles 1 , 5 of section Y , as illustrated in Fig .1 .6 . |
| 17 | There was , of course , no question of denying India the freedom which had so often been promised in the irresponsibility of opposition . |
| 18 | However , with changing attitudes in society , questions are being raised about the morality of denying girls the opportunity to sing in a cathedral choir . |
| 19 | Er yeah and if you were a , if you were a rightist cadre that had doubts about all this and actually wanted to go the slow more moderate line , you could also find enough in here to be able to , to sort of curtail things a bit ? |
| 20 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
| 21 | Rory , having ducked out of meeting Rosie the night before , had said they 'd pick her up later for a meal , but his talk was all of Jessica . |
| 22 | ‘ To ask the Chancellor whether he proposes to take any action to counter the growing practice by companies of granting shareholders the option to receive dividends in the form of stock instead of cash , so enabling some shareholders to obtain a tax advantage . ’ |
| 23 | Above the lines of waiting troops a host of banners fluttered in the breeze . |
| 24 | However , for some sets of neighboring paths the phase will not vary much between paths . |
| 25 | In periods of rising profits a company which is geared at a low level may not have the growth potential to give ordinary shareholders the returns expected from a more highly-geared company . |
| 26 | The two other big diversified computer companies are Unisys Corp at $8,400m or so , and NCR Corp at $7,100m — only the same size as Apple Computer Inc , a pure personal computer play with few designs on the data centre — and if AT&T Co is really serious about making it big in the computer industry , it will soon have to start thinking of buying NCR a present — and Unisys begins to look tempting now that James Unruh has finally got the company onto an even keel and Unisys ' own mainframe millstones under control . |
| 27 | But do n't fall into the trap of considering Newport a side that can only play ten-man rugby . |
| 28 | Hugh Bayley , Labour parliamentary candidate for York : ‘ Instead of cutting tax the Government should be investing in schools , the health service and above all in creating jobs . ’ |
| 29 | I had but I had no intention of giving Miranda the impression I was disorganized . |
| 30 | Any chance he had had of giving Meik a parting gift had slipped away . |