Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a confused and confusing holiday price structure , it may be useful to translate these figures into pictures , do a Jack Horner on the holiday pie and pluck out some typical plums , pinpoint what the 1990 market offers for £250 per head . |
| 2 | The tide flows strongly in favour of the populist , the valueless public library … the Library service has lost its soul and , desperately seeking some justification for its existence , veers between pop-marketing in imitation of the big chains — the McDonald 's and Burger Kings of the printed word — and trying to be a sub-branch of information processing . |
| 3 | Each game , it 's true , begins in disarray and goes through episodes of contortion and crosspurpose . |
| 4 | Then the understudy goes through agonies of indecision before the Company Manager gives him the order to get into costume and makeup . |
| 5 | Then Chola helped her carry it through to the inner room where the family sleeps for warmth in winter . |
| 6 | He plays off scratch in University golf , and looked like breaking 70 today . |
| 7 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 8 | It recently announced contract wins worth £6.3m for hospital developments at Haywards Heath and Bradford . |
| 9 | Streep goes for Goldie in battle of the blondes |
| 10 | He should write to the Secretary of State for Education and Science setting out the problems , and the same goes for problems in respect of Dundee university . |
| 11 | Other investigators claim that endogenous prostaglandins may not be essential since gastric cytoprotection persists after pretreatment with prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors . |
| 12 | The centre stands for compromise between president and parliament — and compromise no longer seems a solution to their bitter war . |
| 13 | ( that stands for Kids of Survival ) , an artist cooperative that has had an enormous success in recent years , opened its first show at Mary Boone last month . |
| 14 | ‘ The four As , sometimes they just put figure 4 and capital A. It stands for Action Against Animal Abuse . ’ |
| 15 | He spent hours with the local clergyman who had his own private store of medicines such as Epsom salts , gentian , laudanum , and quantities of port which he believed built up the strength , and he had seen for himself how garlic had done wonders for children with whooping cough . |
| 16 | [ A. Davidson , ‘ Sir John Evelyn ’ , E. A. Reid , ‘ Sir John Evelyn ’ ( typescript drafts for History of Parliament ) ; B. D. Henning , The House of Commons 1660–1690 , 1983 ; British Library , Harleian MSS 165 , ff. 156–9 ; M. Keeler , The Long Parliament , 1954 . ] |
| 17 | Two years after storming New York , Laura and Bernard hired a young girl of impeccably aristocratic background and ‘ English rose ’ looks as Director of Publicity for the U S company . |
| 18 | Andy Lavender looks for signs of life in the Shaw corpus |
| 19 | The reason I joined the G M B and I 'm sure most of you was , in good times the G M B looks for improvements in pay and conditions , in bad times we look for holding on to what we have got . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years . |
| 21 | Ipswich man of the match Bryn Kerr is tackled and looks for support from flanker James Bisdee . |
| 22 | The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task . |
| 23 | Europe looks for value-for-money in research |
| 24 | This high ranking holds for seizures of heroin , persons found guilty of drug offences , and new and former drug addicts notified to the Home Office ( Home Office 1986 ) . |
| 25 | France 's two intelligence organisations are the Direction Général de Sécurité Extérieur ( DGSE ) , which , like MI6 and the CIA , is responsible for espionage operations abroad , and the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire ( DST ) , which looks after counter-intelligence at home like MI5 . |
| 26 | She looks after children before school and after school , up to eleven year olds . |
| 27 | The CCO looks after submarines at sea and keeps — ‘ |
| 28 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 29 | L. Lives Like Logs of Driftwood : This wants to be a long , very well written story . |
| 30 | Frostied Shreddies , looks like Shreddies with sugar stuck on them . |