Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1925 , the LNER added to its stock the most powerful steam loco for service in this country , specially for banking trains up Worsborough . |
| 2 | On March 15 , Israeli aircraft attacked a Palestine Popular Struggle Front ( PSF ) base in the village of Qoub Elias in the Bekaa valley on the Beirut-Damascus road , allegedly used as base to carry out attacks against Israel . |
| 3 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 4 | Marxists , however , would lay more stress on factors such as the development of a well-unionized workforce and the frequent need for industry to hold down wages . |
| 5 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 6 | It is good for horse to exercise up hills . |
| 7 | The use of cane makes this float ideal for fishing sag out shot or styles , and also aids casting when using 7 meters plus to hand . |
| 8 | And because people knew he was going to do so , they came back night after night to see how things were changed . |
| 9 | Halifax are pulling out all the stops to try to strengthen their squad and want a sponsor to help fund a deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner . |
| 10 | And Leeds hope to wrap up a short-term deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner in the next three or four days . |
| 11 | LEEDS have wrapped up a two-year deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner . |
| 12 | Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover . |
| 13 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 14 | If no question of change arises then evaluation is deprived of point and becomes instead a public relations exercise service to induce feelings-of-being-consulted in the course consumers , or feelings-of-being-valuable in the course presenters . |
| 15 | This field is situated at the edge of the Zechstein salt basin and thin beds of halite extend over part of the structure . |
| 16 | For the change of heart came only hours after Mr Fallon met priests in Darlington and discussed the future of church schools with a national delegation of bishops . |
| 17 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 18 | By antecedent , in terms of the example , I of course mean only R and C. In virtue of this fact of generality with respect to independent conditionals they are not tied to a particular situation , as are dependent conditionals . |
| 19 | This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change . |
| 20 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 22 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 23 | A frisson of fear scorched down Robyn 's spine and for the first time she recognised the potential danger of her situation . |
| 24 | In another part of its robots programme , the Department of Industry puts up cash to help firms to pay consultants who advise them on robot applications . |
| 25 | Between 1974 and 1979 , for example , the Department of Industry allocated about £250 million in regional assistance to Merseyside — almost all of which went to green-field locations ( Nabarro , 1980 ) . |
| 26 | It will also enable the British shipowner to compete more favourably with his foreign rivals as it is evident that if the English shipowner pays £pound4.15s a month whereas the foreign shipowners for the same class of labour pays only £pound2.10s a month , he must be better able to compete and members must therefore recognise the importance of the International Movement " . |
| 27 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 28 | Brother turns against brother as the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure stir up trouble in every city and town . |
| 29 | Your windows are open and a gust of wind carries off loos papers left on your desk . |
| 30 | He was convicted of conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts , of drug trafficking and of illegal possession of explosives . |