Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the north see for example Polunin ( 1951 ) , Young ( 1971 ) and Bliss ( 1981 ) ; Bliss ( 1981–9 ) provides a table of comparison between eight published biogeographical systems . |
| 2 | ‘ What we have in mind ’ he said ‘ is some panelling to cover the raised floor of the bell tower and some windows about that to give visual contact between the bell ringers and the vicar . ’ |
| 3 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 4 | One of the laws of the jungle is that the greater the number of groups in the competitive struggle , for each to secure bigger increases than the others , the faster will wages rise . ’ |
| 5 | A £1.4 billion boost for the NHS would pay for 7,000 lost nursing jobs ( £136 million ) , keep open intensive care beds , improve hospitals and fund things like a desperately needed £10 million on ambulance services . |
| 6 | One way of achieving this is for MAS to hold all copies of the Information Memoranda and only to despatch these once the intermediary has returned a confidentiality undertaking to us . |
| 7 | The Labour Party Conference : Cook appeals for Labour to accept electoral reform |
| 8 | There is still a strong sense in Britain that even to discuss foreign policy is somehow unpatriotic or obscene , and this certainly made it more difficult for Labour to raise international questions . |
| 9 | Antrim will certainly vouch for that given that Carey was responsible for two goals and five points in their All Ireland semi-final defeat . |
| 10 | ‘ Love of God is the greatest virtue a man can ever cultivate , and through that develops this love for the creation of God ; kindness , compassion , tolerance , and helpfulness to others emanate when the love of God grows in the heart . |
| 11 | Estimates for 1989/90 put this figure at £1 billion — a one hundredfold increase in ten years . |
| 12 | He says that his mate bought a car from there and , he were a undecided about this clocking this time , what 's , what call it ? |
| 13 | As a visual aid to anatomical familiarity , a reference book such as this has undoubted value . |
| 14 | Cocooned inside fortress PWL , Kylie chose her first interviews in Britain to explain the homespun philosophy that was to keep body and soul together during this trying two months in Britain . |
| 15 | ( 1984 ) found that the cross-section benefit elasticities as estimated from the Family Expenditure Survey data for 1972–7 exhibited considerable variability depending on how the relevant income variables were constructed . |
| 16 | While many are praising the ruling for providing a chance for some to see such masterpieces as Matisse 's ‘ Grand Riffian ’ and Seurat 's ‘ Les Poseuses ’ without the required pilgrimage to Merion , Pennsylvania , critics of the decision are echoing a warning they have offered since the Barnes attempted to deaccession works last year . |
| 17 | For some , as in the Roman Catholic Church , this means taking a vow of celibacy ; for some entering religious orders it means taking the vows of celibacy , poverty and obedience . |
| 18 | For this had revolutionary effects on agriculture , on food manufacture , on retailing , and on diet . |
| 19 | There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties . |
| 20 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 21 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 22 | Many seven-day members disapproved of members in other categories , such as social having full voting rights . |
| 23 | A restrictive covenant imposed after 1925 binds future owners if registered as a land charge Class D(ii) or on the Land Register . |
| 24 | With a baby to look after neither has much opportunity to go out , so the increase in the cost of a pint of beer or a bottle of wine will have little impact on their lives . |
| 25 | After that plans similar experience world-wide . |
| 26 | My Lord yes , er there 's just , we 're now dealing with the officers that went into the flat and conducted the operation and then there 's one W P C who comes after that to give some evidence but then that 's it . |
| 27 | As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | One factor after another shows unfulfilled needs . |
| 29 | Almost all the new stations opened in the London suburban area after 1920 had some form of subsidy from the developers . |
| 30 | Instead , its officials believe that the unification of Europe 's financial markets after 1992 puts electronic link-ups between European derivative markets higher up the agenda . |