Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught the fragrant smell of herbs sprinkled inside to keep the robes fresh . |
| 2 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 3 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 4 | The analysis will be concerned with co-operative access of the dialogues — now pairs of speakers work together to establish effective description schemes , how they learn to give and follow instructions and now they learn to use appropriate feedback following an ambiguous description or instructions . |
| 5 | Within our own catchment area considerable progress has been made towards developing the concept of a pyramid of schools working together to create coherence and continuity in curriculum and effective transition from school to school throughout the 3–16 age range . |
| 6 | A High Elf army is normally a compact and hard hitting force , a select body of Elves brought together to defend some realm or oust an invader . |
| 7 | A good example of a swift corrective action being put in place with people from a variety of functions co-ordinating rapidly to help a customer solve his problem . |
| 8 | STRING OF COMPANIES STEP FORWARD TO SUPPORT DESKTOP TASK FORCE 's DESTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE |
| 9 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 10 | Many previous studies have sought risk factors retrospectively in the context of trials designed primarily to detect a difference between antiulcer treatments . |
| 11 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 12 | Following this vote , a procession of legislators came forward to acknowledge their guilt in the affair prior to the list 's publication . |
| 13 | If a toastmaster attends , he will begin his duties by announcing the names of guests stepping forward to shake hands with the bridal party on the receiving line . |
| 14 | Sympathetic typifications of Catholics do little to lessen the obvious problem of being attacked while walking the beat . |
| 15 | For given costs and mark-ups , the number of firms expands proportionately to output . |
| 16 | We should view the Bill in the light of the package of panic measures that were announced in December , as the rapidly rising tide of repossessions threatened finally to engulf the remnants of this lame-duck Government . |
| 17 | Learn to relax ( see the range of goods mentioned above to make you calmer ) and make sure you 've not been overtraining . |
| 18 | Studies of lesbians tend either to employ traditional methods like hormone measurement ( Dancey 1987 ) or the Q sort ( Kitzinger 1986 ) , or to study women 's lives in an exploratory , unstructured way . |
| 19 | It was a lot of sort of hippies pulling together to pull something off — hardly your Daily Mirror love nest , if you get my drift . |
| 20 | In North Yorkshire all the wives had already attended courses whilst in Wester Ross and Orkney the majority of wives had yet to attend a course . |
| 21 | Screening study of patients suspected clinically to have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other neurodegenerative diseases by prion protein gene analysis . |
| 22 | But while the biggest names from Hollywood and Washington watched the extravaganza , a handful of activists gathered outside to protest against genetically engineered animals and foods . |
| 23 | Blanche looked up and searched the sky , seeking some prophecy of success or failure , but found only a sprinkling of stars brave enough to outshine the lemon gleam of the city 's lights . |
| 24 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 25 | It will sometimes be the case that , for certain instruction groups , the number of bits required fully to specify an operation and all its associated information is less than the computer word length ; so these groups are using the word inefficiently , and are candidates for occupying only a portion of a word . |
| 26 | Even Georgia proved troublesome in 1832 , when a small number of aristocrats tried unsuccessfully to reverse the annexation of 1801 . |
| 27 | Other attempts to restrict preferences of voters seem equally to have had limited success . |
| 28 | But the only real problem was controlling the crowds of voters pressing forward to cast their ballots . |
| 29 | The gathering of men pressed closer to see my watch , so I held out my wrist . |
| 30 | ‘ A group of men meeting together to get drunk and cavort with women ? |