Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 2 | The other half was the requirement that the cargo be delivered only to the lawful holder of an original in the set of three bills that Savary referred to as a ‘ triplet . ’ |
| 3 | Martin Chuzzlewit returning from across the Atlantic Ocean is like one returning from the dead , a ghost ( the allusion is to the drowning of Pharaoh 's host in the Red Sea as described in Exod. 14 . |
| 4 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 5 | When Cassio has been attacked by Iago , apparently murdered , Othello lauds his master 's example : The murder scene , with its marvellously wrought language , a ceremony that Othello thinks of as a sacrifice , is the most deluded , most fictitious scene in Shakespeare — not a word in it that Othello says is true . |
| 6 | I feel that your columnist Liam ‘ Mine-And-Your-Social Conscience ’ Fay misses much of the point of P. J. O'Rourke 's works , as he clearly falls into the category of what O'Rourke refers to as the ‘ permanently indignant ’ . |
| 7 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |
| 8 | Once David got off off the wall |
| 9 | Hector rose from under the desk and limped after her . |
| 10 | There was a small gymnasium , squash and archery for Richard to choose from at the Club , and just down the road he could go windsurfing or waterskiing , whilst I lazed with the other guests . |
| 11 | What Bartlett and Ghoshal refer to as the global company is alleged to be the result of Japanese practice developed in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 12 | So if you look as to how Kuwait grew by after the oil it gives a good example how we put the use of the oil to the betterment of mankind . |
| 13 | Further , surrealist allegory for Benjamin is a method in which these figural signifiers are taken from ‘ the petrified and insignificant ’ , from what Breton spoke of as the ‘ dresses of five years ago ’ ( Sontag 1979 , p. 26 ) . |
| 14 | Andy comes to within a couple of yards . |
| 15 | Behind all this was discernible the dim outlines of an even grander vision — a vision of an Anglo-Saxon world state , in which Britain , the white dominions and America ( realigned with Britain after what Curtis referred to as the ‘ schism ’ of 1775 ) would in concert undertake to ensure the peace and prosperity of the world : Curtis was not called ‘ The Prophet ’ for nothing . |
| 16 | Many of the towns on the Banbury map which Professor Hoskins referred to in the previous chapter fall into this category . |
| 17 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 18 | Support for COSE came from across the industry , including Adobe Systems Inc , Autodesk Inc , Computer Associates International Inc , Computervision Corp , Convex Computer Corp , Cray Research Inc , Electronic Data Systems Corp , Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd , ICL Plc , Ingres Corp , Mead Corp , the Object Management Group , Oki Electric Industry Co , Oracle Corp , Samsung Electronics Co , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , Stratus Computer Inc , Sybase Corp , Toshiba Corp , Unisys Corp , Unix International and XSoft . |
| 19 | Support for COSE came from across the industry , including Adobe , Autodesk , Computer Associates , Computervision , Convex , Cray , EDS , Fujitsu , Hitachi , ICL , ICS , Ingres , Mead Data , OMG , Oki , Oracle , Samsung , Siemens-Nixdorf , Stratus , Sybase , Toshiba , Unisys , Unix International and XSoft . |
| 20 | Anabelle watched from under the gate while the boy snatched up the huge bowl and dashed into the house . |
| 21 | IBM watchers say the pending agreement signals an intention by IBM to offer with in the next two years an asymmetric parallel processing server designed to run mission-critical applications , including CICS programs . |
| 22 | Whether Shabba succeeds outside of the reggae market is dependent on whether a major can retain the energy of his ragga product . |
| 23 | Consider , for example , that type of syntactic structure which Chomsky refers to as the kernel sentence , of which the following are examples : |
| 24 | As she brought Shine On out of his box , Bill and Winnie approached from across the yard . |
| 25 | Raskolnikov 's ‘ incomplete smile ’ is the index of those ‘ half-baked ’ ( literally , ‘ incomplete ’ ) ideas which Dostoevsky writes about in the letter to Katkov . |
| 26 | And I I do n't want to spend all night chasing round Blackpool looking for for a place that serves ordinary food of a decent standard . |
| 27 | Helen watched from across the room , unable to eat , virtually retching at the sight of Changez balancing a plate on his knee , garland trailing in his dal , as he ate with his good hand , nimbly using the fingers he had . |
| 28 | When they both snuff it — Streep is pushed down the stairs and Hawn shot — the movie 's special effects come into their own as failed plastic surgeon Willis sets to with the spray paint and filler to patch up the damage . |
| 29 | The Audi Quattro honked from across the road . |
| 30 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |