Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first known students of language in the Western tradition , the scholars of Greece and Rome , were aware of these different approaches too , and divided grammar from rhetoric , the former being concerned with the rules of language as an isolated object , the latter with how to do things with words , to achieve effects , and communicate successfully with people in particular contexts . |
| 2 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |
| 3 | Afterwards she clung to him , the tears wet on her cheeks , and for a long time they lay together in silence as the light of the October evening faded around them . |
| 4 | These were truths and remain so in spite of the fallacious ideological baggage with which they are mixed up . |
| 5 | Thought to be quintessentially English , primroses actually grow right across Europe from Majorca to Iran and wherever you look they vary slightly . |
| 6 | These records establish his importance ( his operations were crucial to the establishment of the Angevin dynasty in England ) but supply little by way of biographical information . |
| 7 | These say little about gardening as such . |
| 8 | Break down and cry right in front of you ? |
| 9 | These various examples of working personification of the community fit together as partners in a general system of thought . |
| 10 | Previously many historians perceived crime as abnormal and peripheral , fit only for study by specialists in deviance . |
| 11 | Such figures say much about ways in which female employment was determined by economic and cultural constraints . |
| 12 | The pond is virtually sterile except for algal mats which grow only at points about its edges where fresh water is available ( Harris et al . , |
| 13 | Angiosperms grow from ovules ( seeds ) protected in their own case , where gymnosperms grow only from seeds without the protective case . |
| 14 | The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly . |
| 15 | Continental Airlines ( 0800 776464 ) fly daily from Gatwick to Cancun via Houston , apex return £614 ( Nov ) . |
| 16 | Viva Air ( 071–830 0011 ) fly daily from Heathrow to Alicante , apex return £124 . |
| 17 | In the first place they need high temperatures : the mean annual temperature should not fall below 18° C ( 65° F ) , and they grow best with temperatures between 25 and 29° C ( 77 and 84° F ) . |
| 18 | When buying leather corals , the main thing to check is that there are no bacterial infections , which appear generally at sites of mechanical damage , as areas of greyish slime . |
| 19 | However , these various measures are perfectly consistent in the sense that they encroach decisively on areas on which local authorities exercise responsibility and , since the Secretary of State will have a key role in connection with financial delegation and ‘ opting out ’ , the measures must be said to reinforce the centralism which is reflected most obviously in the measures to the national curriculum . |
| 20 | People hurry home with bits of meat loosely wrapped in squares of brown paper , leaving the ground littered with straw rope and abandoned baskets . |
| 21 | Among birds , the mystery of migration is deepened even further , for the young swallows , born one summer in Europe , fly home to Africa before their parents . |
| 22 | But when they fly home to Karachi at the end of the month they are in danger of being remembered as cricket 's chumps , not champs . |
| 23 | The wine-red to brownish-pink leaves with a prominent midrib grow oppositely in pairs on a rigid , yellowish-brown stem covered with fine hairs , and full of axial buds . |
| 24 | It is envisaged that the national squad will spend two weeks in Johannesburg next March and then head straight to Kenya for three weeks of Cup cricket after which the top three teams will qualify for the 1995 World Cup to be staged jointly by India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | Descendants of sisters interact positively with descendants of mother or grandmother more than they do with those of aunts or great-aunts . |
| 26 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 27 | The daughter of ATLAS the Titan , Maia was one of the beautiful Pleiades who appear now as stars in the northern hemisphere . |
| 28 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 29 | Endlessly undulating soundwaves spiral upwards like bubbles from a deep ocean trench , desert island discs becalmed in a sea of tranquillity . |
| 30 | Lexical units are those form-meaning complexes with ( relatively ) stable and discrete semantic properties which stand in meaning relations such as antonymy ( e.g. long : short ) and hyponymy ( e.g. dog : animal ) , and which interact syntagmatically with contexts in various ways to produce , for instance , the different sorts of anomaly discussed in chapter 1 . |