Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of structure drills used for mastering the grammar of a language are : substitution ( frame ) drills ( these are non-differential ) |
| 2 | According to reports on Dec. 7 , the victim of the alleged rape , Farhana Hayat , had named Irfanullah Marwat Khan , a close adviser to the Sind provincial government and a son-in-law of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , as responsible for instigating the attack against her . |
| 3 | Kept saying something about building a parade of really modern shops . |
| 4 | Now they 're talking about building a bypass around Winchelsea . |
| 5 | The clear majority view in my group in Brussels is that though not perfect Maastricht takes us a step in the right direction , setting about building the sense of a community on the market place created by the nineteen eighty seven Single Act . |
| 6 | We give here the main reasons for doubting the validity of Urquhart 's population dose estimates , and for rejecting the conclusions of the accompanying contribution ‘ Looking for an increase in deaths from cancer ’ ( pB74 ) . |
| 7 | However , probably because of the demonstration that preceded the classroom observations , the children completely ignored the researchers and their equipment , and there were no grounds for doubting the naturalness of their behaviour . |
| 8 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 9 | where you have missed the time limit for presenting an unfair dismissal application ( the normal limitation period for bringing an action for breach of contract in the civil courts is six years , rather than the strict three-month time limit for pursuing an unfair dismissal claim ) ; |
| 10 | He denounced the Republicans in the New York state legislature for bringing the state to the " brink of disaster " by blocking agreement on a plan to close an estimated $875 million gap in the current state budget and deal with a $3,600 million deficit for the coming year , but acknowledged that he could not contemplate campaigning in New Hampshire whilst his state faced such a crisis . |
| 11 | We are grateful to this member for bringing the subject before us . |
| 12 | Its report , entitled Special Education Needs , contained important recommendations for bringing the education of handicapped pupils into line with that for ordinary children . |
| 13 | St Tuttston Bastian of Tankerville was the foundation stud dog of the Tankerville Kennels and was probably responsible for bringing the breed to the notice of the general public . |
| 14 | My constituent , Mrs. X , who is still suffering badly , had been treated in a less than fair way by those who conducted the criminal investigation and also by those who decided that there were no grounds for bringing the perpetrator in front of a court martial . |
| 15 | ALEX HIGGINS escaped suspension but was fined £3,000 yesterday for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 16 | They were banned and fined £500 for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's me fined now for bringing the game into disrepute . ’ |
| 18 | This will assist in beginning to think about shaping the market in 1994/95 and beyond . |
| 19 | Their political interests in maintaining and extending their social position and power depend on a stable regime which they help maintain through repression , through the manipulation of potential dissenting groups and through maintaining the loyalty of other powerful social classes who have a conflicting interest in the distribution of state income ( Ziemann and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 20 | The outcome of these processes is that the official portrait of crime and criminals is highly selective , serving to conceal crimes of the powerful and hence shore up their interests , particularly the need to be legitimated through maintaining the appearance of respectability . |
| 21 | The best reason for including a Giant in your army is that they are very entertaining ! |
| 22 | Yet the Franks have received criticism for including a lot of songs dedicated fans will already own . |
| 23 | The FRS is not expected to differ greatly from FRED 1 , The Structure of Financial Statements — Reporting of Financial Performance ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 86 ) , but the ASB is thought to have extended the options for including the breakdown into continuing and discontinued operations in the notes , rather than on the face of the p&l account . |
| 24 | Such measures involve different aspects : physical security , such as the security of disk storage facilities , from flood as well as unauthorised access ; software security , such as maintaining a log of all failed access requests ; and , operational security , for example with regard to work data being taken home by employees , and periodic data protection audits of the computer systems . |
| 25 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
| 26 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 27 | It was n't until 10 years after the crash that Wimpol was first approached to advise on suitable vessels and equipment for salvaging the wreckage from the ocean floor — a depth of three-and-a-half kilometres . |
| 28 | Few people find Anselm a serious contender for proving the existence of God , although there have been many philosophers who have rightly observed , as we have tried to do , that the logic of existence requires careful consideration . |
| 29 | I do n't want to hear any feeble jokes about seeing every detail of her sentence constructions ! ’ |
| 30 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |