Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 2 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 3 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 4 | For some minutes she again wondered if Cara would have fared any better . |
| 5 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 6 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |
| 7 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 8 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 9 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 10 | ‘ If they ca n't get the NHS right after 13 years they never will , ’ he said . |
| 11 | After several pints he suddenly startled the whole pub by saying in a loud , benevolent voice , ‘ And a Little Child shall lead Them . ’ |
| 12 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 13 | For simple statements they certainly apply , but Q. says that , when you begin to philosophise about the " why " and the " how " , the Romance words are required . |
| 14 | Often on his in-service courses for such teachers he cleverly used gifted teachers to set and lead the practical sessions . |
| 15 | She was a very thrifty woman because in spite of eleven children we never wanted for anything and you went through a depression like , you know . |
| 16 | Since volcanoes composed of similar rock types are also found in a range of climatic environments they also provide the opportunity to compare the effects of climate on the rate and nature of denudation . |
| 17 | Sir Alf Ramsey included David as substitute in his England Under 23 side against Wales at Swansea on l November 1967 , but Palace fans of the period will contend that David was worthy of further honours He eventually left us for orient in August 1973 ; his departure was regretted by the fans , who had always held this likeable young man in immense respect and affection . |
| 18 | Finniston admits that being plunged into the deep end of commercial decisions he inevitably made mistakes in the early stages , although he is not prepared to take the blame entirely . |
| 19 | At the same time and again harking back to Durkheim , at least in the case of tribal societies we usually know very little of their past through lack of documentary sources , so we can ignore this ‘ conjectural history ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ There are lots of English painters I really do like . ’ |
| 21 | To devolve responsibility for the kind of social services we currently enjoy to a mass of informal , ill-organised groups and organisations would constitute so great a dismantling of the personal social services system as to leave its functions solely to hidden providers of informal care . |
| 22 | The most glorious pair of wee titties you ever saw . |
| 23 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 24 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 25 | When prompted during discussion , some teachers conceded that by ‘ children ’ in some of these phrases they probably meant the boys . |
| 26 | Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us . |
| 27 | Some of these rituals we still practise today , though their meaning is only dimly remembered . |
| 28 | as if he was trying to get rid of a whole cloud of false ideas I probably had about it . |
| 29 | Just 4kms from the resort is the first of many places you just ‘ have ’ to see the Varone waterfalls . |
| 30 | Their confidence grew into overwhelming proportions and in the opinion of many observers they swiftly became Manchester 's tedious twosome . |