Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) The word ‘ Company ’ in this Clause , except where used in reference to the Company , shall be deemed to include any partnership or other body of persons , whether incorporated or unincorporated and whether domiciled in the United Kingdom or elsewhere . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) The word ‘ Company ’ in this Clause , except where used in reference to the Company , shall be deemed to include any partnership or other body of persons , whether incorporated or unincorporated and whether domiciled in the United Kingdom or elsewhere . |
| 4 | And with fine understatement it records where getting from A to B is virtually impossible : ‘ There are no rail services in Equatorial Guinea , few tarred roads , very few buses and no taxis . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , I er have never known such a question asked in this council chamber where referring to members of parliament er in in er and that is why I did n't feel it necessary |
| 6 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 7 | ’ Increasingly the Regulation was being interpreted in a way which was much wider than intended with applications for review becoming ever more speculative . |
| 8 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 9 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 10 | When I first approached The Smiths in regard to this book , although treated with sympathy from their manager , I was waved aside without so much as an acknowledgement . |
| 11 | Its contents may be verified by reference to the works quoted in the bibliography , especially those of Kinsey and his collaborators and by Masters and Johnson in the United States ( although stemming from studies in another and slightly different culture they hold much validity for Britain also ) and by Chatham , Eysenck , Felstein and Gorer in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Although considered in need of assessment or treatment , these women did not require compulsory admission , with the attendant limits on civil liberties . |
| 13 | Murder can never be anything but a most serious crime , although committed in conditions of infinite variety , whereas thefts can be trivial in the extreme . |
| 14 | Although designed for use by dentists , they were converted to safer sex use by a creative group of women in the US . |
| 15 | Dotty was n't at all sure the poor woman should n't have been left in the telephone box until the ambulance arrived , rather than carried by George across the square in a fireman 's lift under an old blanket , but Rose had convinced her that a scandal must be avoided at all costs . |
| 16 | Ben and Elizabeth found themselves doing what many others did in a similar predicament — rather than wait for banns to be read , they married by licence . |
| 17 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 18 | Between 1964 and 1990 , the number of births outside marriage increased from 63 thousand to 200 thousand , while the proportion of all births that they represent more than quadrupled from 7% to 29% . |
| 19 | But the army has more than quadrupled in size during the war , from 26,000 in 1982 to 112,000 in 1992 , and at least within the UNP , the stature of the politicians has shrunk . |
| 20 | Hardraw Force is the highest surface waterfall in the country ( although exceeded in height by a few underground streams descending into potholes , Fell Beck in Gaping Gill being a notable example ) and the most beautiful . |
| 21 | Much of the research into the tectonic evolution of basins overlaps with work on passive margin development , and although written for students of sedimentology the book by Miall ( 1984 ) provides a valuable introduction for geomorphologists on both of these themes . |
| 22 | They needed to be positioned inside departments ' own policy units or inside Number 10 itself rather than stumbling around Whitehall in an unguided way . |
| 23 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 24 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 25 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 26 | In practice though , research within this framework has concerned itself with " patterns of linguistic behaviour " as made manifest , for example , through narrative or in interviews , rather than looking in detail at conversational encounters . |
| 27 | Worldwide unit volumes in the quarter more than tripled from levels in the first quarter of 1992 , and ‘ expenses are firmly under control , ’ it said . |
| 28 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 29 | There are more kil , children killed on our roads than die of disease , than die of malnutrition in this country , er many , you know and we just do n't take it seriously . |
| 30 | Like others , we found in situ hybridisation to be more sensitive than immunostaining for confirmation of cytomegalovirus infection . |