Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under US anti-laws Ford was not due for clearance to buy more than $15m of Jaguar stock until 18 October . |
| 2 | Most of the dogs that come up for rehoming do so because of a change in domestic circumstances rather than through any temperament problems . |
| 3 | The tiny darting flame of hope died instantly as the door swung open , but was replaced by a rush of real and genuine gladness as she looked into her father 's face . |
| 4 | Instigate a comprehensive review of UK defence policy which will be dictated by a rigorous analysis of defence needs rather than by fixed monetary targets . |
| 5 | As the Helliwell sisters always had the pick of the best jobs , they of course lived there while working in London . |
| 6 | Second , the expression of aggression and its consequent momentary release of tension strengthens rather than weakens the tendency to behave aggressively ( see page 80 ) . |
| 7 | It is , however , possible that applied research which demonstrates impairments in memory at high levels of arousal does so because of differences in attention , e.g. weapon focus , rather than general effects on all aspects of memory . |
| 8 | Some theories of rhythm go further than this , and point to the fact that some feet are stronger than others , producing strong-weak patterns in larger pieces of speech above the level of the foot . |
| 9 | Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences . |
| 10 | The new wave of theft means more than £3,800 worth of goods are pinched every minute . |
| 11 | At the same time the market price of tin fell sharply because it was being extracted much more cheaply from river gravels in Malaya . |
| 12 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 13 | This afternoon Kevin , his brother Ian and an American business associate appeared in court on charges of fraud involving more than a hundred and thirty five million pounds . |
| 14 | The colobus , driven forward between the blockers , is deceived into thinking that an avenue of escape lies ahead until suddenly the ambusher reveals himself . |
| 15 | THE Clacton Jacqueline Annis School of Dancing raised more than £3,000 at its charity show held last week at the Clacton County High School . |
| 16 | His own analysis of government figures suggested that the number of prescriptions for the treatment of asthma had more than doubled to 27 million a year over the last decade . |
| 17 | However , if the non-arts staff in LEAs and colleges who did wish to offer a higher priority to arts education were to find the climate of opinion changed so as to create an environment more conducive to the arts , it is difficult to imagine how the current state of thinking amongst arts staff might contribute to an improvement in arts education practices . |
| 18 | Therefore the rhetorical recommendation to study the importance of negation applies equally whether the concept of social representation is understood universally or particularly . |
| 19 | In fact the agreement with experiment , though qualitatively correct , is not very good and better results are obtained by the use of a set of relaxation times rather than only one . |
| 20 | In such cases , the effects of war lasted only as long as the duration of hostilities , and trade was resumed after the restoration of peace . |
| 21 | A traditional definition of idiom runs roughly as follows : an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be inferred from the meanings of its parts . |
| 22 | But in a speech to a local Conservative party meeting in England , copies of which were issued to the press , Mr Brittan said a period of turbulence lay ahead before a GATT deal was sealed . |
| 23 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 24 | The police authority appoints the chief constable , his deputy and assistants , but the short list must be acceptable to the Home Office , who thus control the type of person appointed even if not the specific individual . |
| 25 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 26 | Yeremi 's stream of plasma ceased abruptly as his hand cramped within that fervid womb . |
| 27 | But the issue of tangibility goes further than this : it is evaluative ; it says something about service products and service jobs . |
| 28 | This unexpected bit of colour materialising just before they were due to fall down , came as a bonus . |
| 29 | On the other hand , only works of art made more than one hundred years ago will carry an export ban . |
| 30 | As Derek Attridge has demonstrated , Puttenham is forced to rely on the idea of decorum to argue that poets can transform the ‘ vices ’ of rhetoric to virtues in their use of art to perfect rather than pervert nature . |