Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 None of this does any good ; it just makes Washington wonder what exactly Mr Clinton is in charge of .
2 One of these had also hypergastrinaemia .
3 The first four of these had mainly family farms and the pattern was understandable but the Wester Ross response was more difficult to explain .
4 Examples of all types are plentiful in different regions : the long cairn of Balnagowan in Aberdeenshire , fragmented into heaps of stones lined up over some 230 feet ; the well-preserved Clyde cairn of Brackley in Kintyre , excavated in 1952 to reveal both inhumation and cremation procedures , with food vessels and jet necklace beads ; and the protracted cemetery of Nether Largie tombs below Kilmartin village in Argyll .
5 This Government in particular took away tax relief on workplace nurseries .
6 Persuaded by him , Wilberforce introduced a bill for a registry in 1815 to cover both crown and legislative colonies .
7 It was widely expected that the formal ban on direct trade with the Soviet Union would be lifted in 1990 leaving only mainland China , Albania , Cuba and North Korea on the prohibited list .
8 What happened under Winchelsey in 1297–1305 endangered both church and realm , threatening to sever them so sharply and deeply that the church would end up a wholly dependent , deeply suspected and despised branch of royal government .
9 A sequence at -261 to -249 contains both octamer and TAATGARAT motifs ( 28 ) .
10 The generally-accepted explanation for welfare payment levels in the South is that they are , and have been , low because of : the relative poverty of the southern States , which would call for a high fiscal effort if payments equivalent to those made further north were to be offered to the larger number of poor there ; the electoral safety of the Democratic party with regard to the southern State legislatures and governorships , for over a century — sustained by discriminatory practices which prevented many blacks becoming registered voters despite their legal achievement of civil rights ; and the widespread belief among southern whites in the racial inferiority of blacks — who are the main recipients of welfare benefits coupled with the perceived work-disincentive effects of substantial payments and the encouragement to have even larger , and thus more dependent , families than they are believed to provide .
11 For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given .
12 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 4 pointed slightly rugose oral papillae ; Mortensen ( 1927 ) reports that there may be as many as 8 each side .
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