Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 2 | Wouters refers to this process as ‘ informalisation ’ . |
| 3 | The Chinese want to put pressure on Vietnam , and Peking has made clear that it will continue sending arms until the Vietnamese-installed government of Hun Sen agrees to some form of power-sharing that includes the Khmer Rouge . |
| 4 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 5 | [ A total change of mood — BELVILLE and PAMELA sit at either end of the table . ] |
| 6 | But their efforts to collect the money from Germany met with little success ; and when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in 1923 in an attempt to force payment , the German economy collapsed amidst wild inflation ( CORE , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 7 | The connection of deafness with the Dukes of Devonshire persists to this day : the 11th Duke is Patron of the National Deaf Children 's Society , and also of the Royal School for the Deaf , Derby . |
| 8 | Georgie Anne Geyer writes of that obsession . |
| 9 | The Water Hyacinth belongs to this category . |
| 10 | Gorbachev expanded upon this vision of a ‘ qualitatively new state of society ’ in an address to senior party functionaries in July 1989 . |
| 11 | How OSF fits into this picture remains to be seen . |
| 12 | Puzzled at first on noticing the familiar shape of Windmill Hill broken by another small , moving outline , she gazed with heightened interest as semaphore signals began to be spelled out from the ridge against the background of the sky . |
| 13 | Kefalov bulged like some fossil brain adorned with innumerable ridges . |
| 14 | Freud refers to this process of strengthening of the superego as the ‘ most precious cultural asset ’ , and observes that it turns enemies of civilization into its vehicles , and greatly enhances the security of culture . |
| 15 | In the statement Freud made about this activity , he sometimes avoided the errors of his own account of the scientific nature of psychoanalysis . |
| 16 | Influential in child psychiatry for over thirty years , Kahn moved into that field from the excellent springboard of general practice . |
| 17 | The canton of Glarus lies between this mountain barrier in the south and , in the north , the Walensee ( lake ) and the Linth Canal which in the short northern plain links Walensee with the eastern extension of Lake Zurich which is known as the Obersee , ( ie , Upper Lake ) The canal also drains former marshland between these two lakes Glarus , though one of the smallest cantons , is often described as an epitomy of Switzerland as a whole in that it has three geographical sectors : a vast area of mountain country , a moderate stretch of rolling upland plateau capable of settlement what the Swiss call Mittel-land ( literally , middle-land ) and a small area of real lowland . |
| 18 | Rizla waded into some plastic sheeting and resumed her second teething phase with it . |
| 19 | For his part Humphrys maintained with some justice that any binding provision would not be compatible with Iraq 's future independent status . |
| 20 | BML has for some time been concerned about the declining popularity of the NBS , which began in a blaze of publicity in 1955 . |
| 21 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
| 22 | Elisa rose in some confusion , wishing to remonstrate with her host about the abundance of his generosity . |
| 23 | After the wedding he and Margaret and Macnab moved to another flat , in Onslow Gardens , South Kensington , where the two men issued a prospectus and set themselves up as private tutors . |
| 24 | So can McWilliams survive in this ocean of professionalism ? |
| 25 | And just before half time , the erm visitors got their goal erm when Steven scored from another corner , and the score at half time was two one . |
| 26 | What , taking the kind of analysis Freud uses in this book , what features in the individual would you look for , in order to answer these questions ? |
| 27 | The speeding Audi and the Volvo slammed into each other with sufficient force to buckle the Audi 's grille and shatter both headlights . |
| 28 | Minsky and Papert studied in some detail how elaborate a perceptron must be in order to recognise a particular class . |
| 29 | Toby gestured for another glass of Bollinger and continued : ‘ No , the clues may perhaps lie in that contract between Supersight and Brian Harley . |
| 30 | Oh look , it 's Richard Branson going for another record in his big balloon — go on , bomb the bearded bigwig ! |