Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In experiences of communal disaster or of shared pain we can gain support from those who suffer with us . |
| 2 | While we can tinker with the genetics of life or with atomic fission we can not operate with the sensitivity of naturally occurring processes — which might give us cause to consider that technology in certain areas should simply not be pursued at all . |
| 3 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 4 | They all like a dryish soil in full sun ; in rich conditions or in shady spots they tend to grow too lush and produce too few flowers . |
| 5 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 6 | Foremen are promoted from the ranks of production workers and as pivotal intermediaries they have quasi-managerial status . |
| 7 | The Taylors ' main aim is to make their guests feel very welcome and as committed Christians they are happy to see the Mount Hotel used as a retreat . |
| 8 | We became part of GEC-Marconi Electronics and as managing director I reported to Sir Robert Telford and continued to run Hall Automation . |
| 9 | In Parliament he had been associated with a party which was out of favour with the King , and as Public Orator he had lauded the policy of peace when Charles , then Prince of Wales , was determined to make war on Spain . |
| 10 | But we are not simply judges or police officials , we are also human beings , and as human beings we sympathize deeply and sincerely with the terrible situation in which the Miletti family find themselves , and wish to do everything possible to bring it to a swift and satisfactory conclusion . |
| 11 | Before that stage is reached , however , there will invariably have been at least one case conference with social workers , paediatricians , child psychologists and others and as Senior Solicitor it is my responsibility to ensure all important case conferences receive legal advice on the evidence available and the prospects of success . ’ |
| 12 | Shareholders , however , own the firm and generally appoint managers to run it , and as residual claimants they will want to ensure that the value of the firm is maximized . |
| 13 | There is thus a duality between waves and particles in quantum mechanics : for some purposes it is helpful to think of particles as waves and for other purposes it is better to think of waves as particles . |
| 14 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 15 | Where written records do survive they are as a rule woefully incomplete , and for prehistoric communities they are by definition completely absent . |
| 16 | And for regular savings we can easily set up a standing order . |
| 17 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 18 | Aldershot 's neat football , in difficult windy conditions , kept them well in the game and for long spells they were firmly in control . |
| 19 | But whenever something does not fit his " spirit of Greek art " , he has a notion — and for eighteenth-century aesthetics it is a disturbingly new notion — of development to fall back on . |
| 20 | Vehicles are usually painted in the client 's livery and for major customers it is the preferred means of transporting their products . |
| 21 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 22 | erm local government , and I regret this , is probably going that way in that the demands upon Councillors are getting more and more , and for various reasons it is getting more and more difficult to find now in local government what I would call the amateur who who I think predominated in it , certainly outside the cities , up to nineteen seventy four . |
| 23 | In terms of needing help , these are precisely the most vulnerable groups , and for good reasons they have therefore received more attention in earlier work on the elderly . |
| 24 | Broomhead 's artfulness was working like a treat , and for good effect he rubbed his leg . |
| 25 | For casual clothes I like a make called Big Bop and for special things I like a designer in Australia called Jenny Bannister . |
| 26 | Ingleborough is a wonderful mountain for the amateur explorer , its surface being perforated by hundreds of holes , some gaping chasms , some mere slits in the ground not easy to locate , and for underground enthusiasts it offers a lifetime of excitement and adventure . |
| 27 | Senses rioted , coherent thought fled , and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them . |
| 28 | Through the forum of the Zemsky sobor and through joint petitions they were able to exert considerable pressure upon state policy . |
| 29 | Ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell and through constant practice they learn the difference between a rabbit and vermin , knowing which they should kill and which they simply hold . |
| 30 | And after mutual agreement he went . |