Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That stone curtain will not descend which now shuts off the inmates of prison from the free world outside . |
| 2 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 3 | Whatever one thinks about the activities of the author , he was a former member of the security services . |
| 4 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 5 | Although on-trial Norwegian striker Tore Andre Dahlum plays for the reserves on Wednesday , Ferguson admits he is for the future , and he must plunge now . |
| 6 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 7 | Oxygen from the air goes through the LUNGS into the blood . |
| 8 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 9 | Nearing the head of the loch , the road goes through the woodlands of the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve and trails are available for the public up the mountainside . |
| 10 | He belongs to a paper society which goes through the motions of life , in the air , notionally . |
| 11 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 12 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 13 | Steam hisses between the blocks of lava , caking the mouths of the vents with yellow sulphur . |
| 14 | But most research agrees about the kinds of processes that were in operation . |
| 15 | This record features lowdown bass that goes for the backs of your legs and up a bit . |
| 16 | So these are the things that are worrying Robyn Penrose as she drives through the gates of the University , with a nod and a smile to the security man in his little glass sentry box : her lecture on the Industrial Novel , her job future , and her relationship with Charles — in that order of conspicuousness rather than importance . |
| 17 | Mapping of the contact points between the deoxyriboses in the DNA backbone and cAMP-CRP and CytR |
| 18 | ‘ How one longs for the days of Bishop Heber sometimes ! ’ |
| 19 | Lili , needless to remark , is unhappy : when she is in the heat of the Nile she longs for the mists of England , and vice versa . |
| 20 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 21 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 22 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 23 | The general lack of compromise or provision for flexible or part-time work effectively chokes off the careers of many promising lawyers . |
| 24 | Alejandro Mayta the revolutionary theorist who heads for the hills in the hope of joining a mass uprising comes over finally as a misguided almost pathetic figure . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there is an interesting parallel between the five-year-olds ' poor performance in the deductive mode experiments and Wimmer and Perner 's ( 1983 ) finding that the ability to reason about another person 's false belief develops between the ages of four and six years . |
| 26 | Section 743(5) states that in any case where an individual has for the purposes of s739 power to enjoy income of a person abroad by reason of his receiving a benefit from the trust ( hence giving rise to a tax charge under TA 1988 , s742(2) ( c ) ) , the individual shall be chargeable to income tax under s739 for the year of assessment in which the benefit is received . |
| 27 | ‘ It is difficult to ask my colleagues to risk their lives if nobody cares about the lives of the people , ’ Mr Mendiluce told reporters in Sarajevo . |
| 28 | And finally , the criminal injuries compensation scheme , to cut the amounts paid to people who are victims of gang rape , to cut the amount paid to people who are victims of child abuse , that shows just how much the Home Secretary cares about the victims of crime , and his other measures show that he 's far more concerned with his own career , with pleasing the Conservative party conference , and with trying to do anything , anything I mean he 's brought in whatever it is , twenty-seven proposals , one or two of them are bound to work , if you throw enough stuff at the fan , some of it usually hits the target . |
| 29 | The plumber smiles broadly as he gathers up his tools and delicately tip-toes between the pools of water . |
| 30 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |