Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could also prove too great a hurdle for Mr Gould , a well-known Euro-sceptic , who made clear that he would be pressing for Labour to rethink its economic policy and to advocate realignment of the pound within the European exchange rate mechanism to enable it to put forward more positive policies on industry and employment . |
| 2 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 3 | But oh Peter 's been a a a all , all for self-indulgence to create their own image for their own purpose . |
| 4 | Run For Free did his best to eject Mark Perrett seven from home , but apart from that he put up a superb display of jumping . |
| 5 | Only five per cent of acting Oscars have been won in comedies ( Jack Lemmon won Best Actor for the earnest Save The Tiger ( 1973 ) , not for Some Like it Hot , The Apartment or The Odd Couple ) . |
| 6 | Offsetting this cost is the possibility for some to make their own developments off the back of previous transfers of knowledge . |
| 7 | After promising to make its latest Solaris 2.1 operating system available for Sparc RISC-based systems within 30 days ( UX No 409 ) , SunSoft Inc 's European general manager , Peter Watkins , says the Sun Microsystems Inc software unit will deliver Solaris 2.1 source code for Intel Corp iAPX-86 architectures to its OEM partners during December . |
| 8 | He has n't after all said anything false , because he has n't said anything at all : all he 's done is sigh . |
| 9 | Via the expression of a perverse masochism , with its disturbing mix of abjection and arrogance , this act , in one sense the supreme antithesis of everything Christ died for — he died after all to save us all — is identified as Christlike . |
| 10 | He could not accept all the offers that were made , for he had after all to keep his large family of seven children in the manner he had chosen . |
| 11 | The sudden increase in unemployment after 1930 gave it further importance . |
| 12 | Remove the float after first checking its exact position on the float arm . |
| 13 | I , I , I think Chairman , that I , having to put very good money after bad doing it this way , I think it 's perfectly true , people think of Shropshire as a rural county , and I think film producers will be people erm , if they want to come here they will and it 's hardly Council business , taking huge amounts erm , well known production , but er , quite often major films have been |
| 14 | A greater distance from the events of 1680s made it easier for people to develop a nostalgic longing for the return of the exiled Stuarts as the solution to the nation 's ills . |
| 15 | … and it does mean that I think there is a pressure perhaps grows out of that to make you articulate clearly why you are putting the course together in the way you are … which previously you could have got away with . |
| 16 | And all of that makes it easier for those who are leading or in control to change the policies and get acceptance . |
| 17 | It 's really funny though this is all a new experience for me , I 've never really , you know it 's quite sort of funny analyzing it all do n't you think ? |
| 18 | There was no competition here , no assumed superiority on the part of another to make her uneasy or defensive , only what she saw as shared experience , delightful in retrospect . |
| 19 | Marketing dogma of old had it that car buyers do n't want to hear about car safety , preferring not to dwell on the possibility of being killed or injured on the road . |
| 20 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 21 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 22 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 23 | THE other major planetary event of 1993 involves your ruling planet , Saturn , and mighty Pluto . |
| 24 | She had needed forty-two takes to get her lines right in one scene of Some Like It Hot . |
| 25 | Nobody had spoken of this new responsible attitude , because to do so would be to admit that his behaviour had previously left something to be desired , and my mother had spent too much time in implicit denial of this to waste it all now . |
| 26 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 27 | The project will make use of this to investigate what informal agreements between employers and employees will be self-enforcing and what implications the use of such agreements has for the nature of contractual relations in employment , for the internal labour organization of firms , for the way labour markets operate , and for the nature and level of unemployment . |
| 28 | DEAN REYNOLDS , whitewashed by Steve Davis in the Rothmans Grand Prix final , made a break of 112 to clinch his 9-7 win over Tony Meo last night which gives him a return meeting with Davis in today 's quarter-final of the Everest World Matchplay Championship at the Brentwood Centre . |
| 29 | ‘ HARLEY HOT IN PURSUIT OF COOL SWEDE ’ read the headline , and the first sentence ran : ‘ Brian Harley , the golfer who was on the scrapheap a year ago , continued his early season bid for glory yesterday with a brave round of sixty-eight to leave him one shot behind the cold-eyed Swedish ace , Bjorn Carlssen . ’ |
| 30 | I can tell my hon. Friend that four out of five of those elderly patients have accepted their check-ups and that nine out of 10 found them useful . |