Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Since watches were for long the toys of the rich , it is not surprising that often when ordinary folk encountered one they were extremely puzzled and were even inclined to look upon it as something evil and dangerous . |
| 2 | Marketability varies between assets ; some assets are easily realizable , but some — such as perhaps the shares of small companies — may not find ready buyers . |
| 3 | This appears to envisage rules which require the disclosure of only the arrangements for the payment of commission and not of the actual amount . |
| 4 | Congratulations , and sets of Just The Words to J Howard , Birmingham ; S Bryant , London W13 ; M Walker , Wirral . |
| 5 | This was a small , imperial octavo-size volume containing eventually 73 plates , mainly of just the heads of birds . |
| 6 | As of today the operations of the police force in the field of internal intelligence have been stopped , ’ Mr Calfa said . |
| 7 | Moreover , as payments were commonly made to gang leaders , the contractor was unlikely to be aware of even the names of men employed on the site . |
| 8 | ‘ We believe opting out is not in the best long-term interests of either the children at the school now , or for the future of primary education in Dunblane , ’ he added . |
| 9 | In this discussion it has been hard to draw the line between issues that are essentially ‘ characteristics of policy ’ that affect implementation , and points that are really observations about the characteristics of either the relationships between central policy makers and local implementers , or of the organization of the implementing agencies . |
| 10 | Now , by early spring 1837 , Darwin had decided that such purely adaptational explanations could not account adequately for the timing and placing of either the extinctions of old species or the origins of new ones . |
| 11 | The cumulative effect has been to remove much of the archaeological evidence for settlement from the slopes and uplands , leaving behind only the remnants of flint implements and pottery and the deepest post holes . |
| 12 | Instead , it flashes across between them , coming ‘ vertically from above ’ , and leaving behind only the marks of its passing , much as lightning scorches the earth where it strikes . |
| 13 | When formulating policy , governments are being put under increasing pressure to ensure that their financial sectors do not lag behind either the needs of the economy as a whole , or the rigours of a fast changing international financial environment . |
| 14 | Craftsmen laboured for nearly a millennia on intricate carvings . |
| 15 | The court may then direct that these records or documents be brought to the attention of other persons including presumably the parties to the proceedings and any experts they intend to instruct . |
| 16 | The distinction , though convenient for us at the moment , is not absolute , and just as we can not communicate with only the rules of semantics and grammar , so we just as surely can not communicate very well without them . |
| 17 | ‘ The good stuff and the cheap stuff sold well , with only the properties in the middle sticking , ’ Coker says . |
| 18 | The revised scheme proposed that the water authorities , now with only the functions of water supply and sewage disposal , should be privatised , but that a new National Rivers Authority should be created ( in the public sector ) to take over from the water authorities the regulatory functions of pollution control , water conservation , land drainage and flood protection , conservation , recreation , fisheries and navigation . |
| 19 | ‘ I went to Washington with only the clothes on my back . ’ |
| 20 | The sky was dark , with only the outlines of dockside warehouses standing sharp on the skyline . |
| 21 | Above , an awkward shuffle up a short steep wall deposited us on a flat-topped summit of the lesser Drug , with only the choughs for company . |
| 22 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 23 | These plants , and many others , are not normally grown entirely submerged , but with just the roots in the water . |
| 24 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 25 | The medium-term one I would say is to do with broadly the attitudes of society towards education , and those attitudes have in fact undergone a fairly substantial change over the last ten years or so . |
| 26 | Some critics are scathing about the vogue for ‘ child-centred ’ schemes that fail ( allegedly ) to provide young people with even the rudiments of human culture ; they believe that contemporary views of childhood and childcare are unequal to the task of producing in children such socially desirable qualities as competence , co-operation , responsibility , social sensitivity and moral awareness . |
| 27 | Their Lordships abstain from detailed discussions of these questions , in so far as they were developed in argument , for that would lead the Board to fall into precisely the errors against which Griffiths L.J . |
| 28 | With luck he may also find surveys that provide a much fuller description of properties and the nature of tenancies , including sometimes the names of previous owners . |
| 29 | The censor on the other hand claims a moral and élitist superiority in his or her actions , and whether intentionally or not credits the user with virtually no powers of discrimination . |
| 30 | The disruption of world markets in the aftermath of the war , the waves of protectionism and concurrent fall in export sales inevitably affected the Champagne trade as it razed other industries ; 1932 proved disastrous with virtually no buyers for Champagne . |