Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In old age , deterioration of vision and hearing can lessen the ability to communicate effectively by causing distortion of sensory input . |
| 2 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 3 | There are five principal advantages to be gained , listed below in rising order of importance . |
| 4 | This committee working party with a small budget has nonetheless through sharing funding with these other agencies has had it prum pump priming achievement of er creating a very successful project throughout the city over a number of years . |
| 5 | DOPE grower Ronald Jenkins was fined yesterday for cultivating cannabis at the age of 71 . |
| 6 | For Coventry , the issues had become clouded even before setting foot in the Tigers lair . |
| 7 | The Kennel Club is the doziest organisation I have ever come across in initiating communication to the outside world . |
| 8 | Comments like , I suggest instead of wasting time on leads , I suggest you try knocking on doors . |
| 9 | Proposed regulations on the use of house bids at auctions in New York state ( see The Art Newspaper No. 6 , March 1991 , p. 17 ) moved closer to becoming law in the lower body of that state 's legislature . |
| 10 | The band are using samples from a 1991 speech Bush made just before declaring war on Iraq , showing the President singing a version of Queen 's ‘ We Will Rock You ’ . |
| 11 | In this category is the reprint of ‘ Settling Accounts With Subcultures ’ , the classic feminist critique of the early youth studies of Dick Hebdige and Paul Wallis , which also insists innovatively on drawing attention to the relationship between the personal history of an author and his or her theoretical work . |
| 12 | Gen Nwachukwu rejected criticism that Nigeria was acting prematurely in establishing contact with South Africa before the white minority regime had ended . |
| 13 | He seems to have decided long before assuming responsibility for the government of Northern Nigeria that in general some form of indirect administration was ‘ in accordance with the spirit of British colonial rule ’ , which was benevolent and not ‘ arbitrary and despotic ’ . |
| 14 | A MOTHER who waited two and a half years in a Spanish jail before being convicted on drug charges was freed yesterday after receiving remission on her sentence for being ‘ a model prisoner ’ . |
| 15 | By contrast , a private citizen has no legal right which would give standing to seek to prevent a post office union ( a private body ) from acting illegally by boycotting mail to a foreign country . |
| 16 | In a number of decided cases a landlord has been held to be acting reasonably in refusing consent in these circumstances : |
| 17 | Miners at Monktonhall Colliery are being told their future depends solely on accepting takeover by an English mining company . |
| 18 | Our clients are inevitably personal tax clients who own their companies and who want the accounts prepared correctly without having regard to such new-fangled notions as materiality . |
| 19 | It was one thing to talk tritely about holding life in our hands ; it was a very different matter to find oneself on the point of doing just that . |
| 20 | OR ANY other film in which black , brown , yellow or red people chant , holler and cavort instead of taking cover from White Man 's Heroic Hail Of Death . |
| 21 | 62-year-old Margaret Wilkinson from Lower Stratton was looking forward to spending Christmas with family and friends . |
| 22 | If it succeeds merely in regulating part of the system , then something called Goodhart 's law is likely to come into operation . |
| 23 | Such action succeeds only in dividing truth into oblivion . |
| 24 | People will spend more on cooking oil during the lifetime of the machine that they did on the initial capital cost of the machine . |
| 25 | Two-dimensional spaces are particularly easy to visualize and so make an ideal vehicle for introducing the concepts that will be used later in discussing curvature in space–time ( three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension ) . |
| 26 | France has talked sweetly of promoting use of the ‘ hard ecu ’ , as Britain has proposed , on the way to EMU ( for France , any alternative to the D-mark is appealing ) . |
| 27 | I do not believe simply in throwing money at the prison service for the sake of it . |
| 28 | Research concentrates chiefly on throwing light on two unknowns : will the new weapons lead to manpower savings ; and what demands will the new weapons make upon the skill of the average soldier . |
| 29 | I look forward to receiving information from you over the coming weeks . |
| 30 | ‘ I look forward to setting foot in my uncle 's field . ’ |