Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting seeing publishing from the top . ’ |
| 2 | To his credit , Tony scored a hat-trick for the reserves on the same night that the first eleven where jeered off the pitch . |
| 3 | France boasts a rich and varied tradition of film-making where going to the cinema is an accepted part of people 's cultural and intellectual lives . |
| 4 | The Supreme Court enjoys an effective if indirect and delayed veto over legislation and executive actions , and its decisions where based on the Constitution may only be overridden by constitutional amendment ( involving the approval of two-thirds majorities of both the House and the Senate and of three-quarters of the states ) . |
| 5 | Multiple regression analysis showed no increase in the correlation when the villous height/crypt depth ratio and intraepithelial lymphocyte count together where compared with the cellobiose/ mannitol % ( multiple r=0.50 ) . |
| 6 | And they worry that they will be asked to make a contribution if the WIPers use up the DM600 million now allocated to the programme . |
| 7 | The blue grey mud banks glittered where wet from the tide , but lay dry and cracked like acres of crazy paving above the high water mark . |
| 8 | If all of the remaining ( n - 1 ) markets respond in a manner similar to the one outlined above , aggregation across labour markets will yield a determinate relationship between the overall rate of change of money wages , , and an index of aggregate excess demand for labour , X L , where defined as the ratio . |
| 9 | With chest freezers a long handled bulk tank brush is invaluable where bending into the cabinet is uncomfortable . |
| 10 | In fact the definition will also include persons entitled to intermediate leasehold interests where created by the landlord between the date of the agreement and the grant of the lease . |
| 11 | Meetings are to be held otherwise when and where determined by the trustee ( r 6.153(1) ) . |
| 12 | If you are a well-known personality , attractive looking and charming , you will find your task much easier : people tend to respond to such individuals rather than reacting to the content of their message . |
| 13 | Some take the profoundly defeatist view that the kicking and screaming which would accompany a successful revolt would do even more damage than sticking with the lady . |
| 14 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 15 | However , since she needed to fill her time until his return , what better way than to go to the capital city , and spend some days taking a look round ? |
| 16 | Cut and sew is very much easier than shaping on the machine so do try it if you have not already done so . |
| 17 | And those who take part in groups have to show a parallel commitment to working within the spirit of the process ; putting as much energy into listening as in talking , staying on task , collaborating rather than competing in the pursuit of common objectives . |
| 18 | The popularity of arbitrage portfolios suggests that the advantages more than compensate for the risk that the value of the arbitrage portfolio will deviate from the index at delivery . |
| 19 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 20 | What could be more refreshing , for instance , than to sit in the sun sipping a glass of one of the latest fruit wines ? |
| 21 | When painting during redecorating , I 've sometimes had to remove a telephone cable and staples from the skirting , to make a neat job of it , rather than paint over the cable . |
| 22 | Often , these strategies were invented by the pupils rather than taught by the teacher . |
| 23 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 24 | Although limited by the Parliament Acts and the convention of non-involvement in financial matters , the House of Lords is the only such check . |
| 25 | Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s . |
| 26 | Thus , in spite of substantial emigration , the population of Lewis more than trebled during the course of the 19th century . |
| 27 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 28 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 29 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 30 | From here it 's a doddle to sort out train times and connections — it 's probably cheaper than trying to ring up and get through to BR 's phone lines and definitely easier to use than wading through the paper version . |