Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Revenue would undoubtedly seek to drive through an earnings basis for the future . |
| 2 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 3 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 4 | In time , Jakki moved to London , Jim to America to work as an exhibitions organiser . |
| 5 | It 's thought a fault in an electric fire set light to the downstairts bedroom — when the twins father Mark Bettinson smelt smoke flames had already begun to creep towards the twins cots . |
| 6 | To stand atop the moai quarry of Rano Raraku is to glimpse a mighty neolithic civilisation . |
| 7 | If you would find it easier to work with the doors flat on the floor , they can easily be unscrewed and replaced later . |
| 8 | Mistakes are liable to creep into every documents copies by hand , and it is the task of the textual critic to spot these errors and — wherever possible — correct them . |
| 9 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 10 | Mrs. Millings was pleased at being called " Miss " , and the excitement of being taken to work in a police car was another pleasing thought . |
| 11 | However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department . |
| 12 | If they are given the green light then the running costs will have to come from the police authority . |
| 13 | It is easy to find from the stars Chi ( 4.7 ) and Phi ( 5.0 ) , which make up a small triangle with Delta and are in the same × 20 field with it . |
| 14 | Why they came into existence , whether those about which one has information represent the now-visible signs of a systematic attempt by the Ottomans to provide in the provinces muftis of a high standard , appointed by the central government , or whether , on the other hand , they came into existence in a more haphazard way , more by individual than by systematic " governmental " initiative , is difficult to say . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 16 | In order to bring more of the big guns to bear on the clones Adobe signed a rash of typesetter vendors and font foundries in late 1988 . |
| 17 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 18 | They can be encouraged and guided to work on the Options activities alone , either for homework or purely to reinforce previous work . |
| 19 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 20 | I have yet to come across a police officer who is not interested in stamping out racism . ’ |
| 21 | Referring back to Fig 4.2 , the syntax analyser is unable to discriminate between the words tail and trio ( both having tag 11 in the same position ) unless the GFF of these words is different . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Harold Wilson appeared to give some credence to this view in 1966 when he said in the House of Commons that it was the duty of the government to consult with the Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 23 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 24 | RANGERS , having won the Battle of Britain by beating Leeds to progress to the Champions League , begin their quest to successfully invade Europe against Marseille at Ibrox tonight . |
| 25 | They come from all over to drink at the Bulls Head in Craswall , on the Herefordshire Wales border . |
| 26 | The Old Bradwell School continued to function as an Infants School until the early 1950s . |
| 27 | As with the Faculty scholarships , overseas students will be expected to apply for an ORS award . |
| 28 | She swept past his outstretched hand and began to hurry through the arrivals hall , only stopping to look back at him over her shoulder to see if he was following her when she reached the automatic doors . |
| 29 | But Mr Millar , who was instrumental in introducing new financial controls at the company and was forced to look after the communications side after Mr Simonds-Gooding 's departure , has also gone . |
| 30 | The caravan has a canopy , disabled access and has been painted to look like a police car from the back ! ’ |