Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that after decay of the soft tissues , small mammal bone does not survive exposure for long on the ground , becoming soft and disintegrating within one year ( Voorhies , 1969 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 3 | ‘ Luck was on your side for once in the form of this remarkable pugilist , this amazing pair of fists ! ’ |
| 4 | there are 12 designs for all around the home , and they offer an inexpensive way to make any room 's decorations unique . |
| 5 | Autoworld at the Patrick Collection — A dazzling collection featuring the cars of yesterday plus the supercars of today . |
| 6 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
| 7 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
| 8 | The three-year language programme preparing the young teenagers of today for the challenge of tomorrow |
| 9 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 10 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 11 | She was buried at Cholsey where her grave has become a shrine for fans from all over the world . |
| 12 | The feasts of the Madonna fell on 15 August and 8 September , and on those days hundreds if not thousands of pilgrims descended on Fontanellato from all over the province and even further afield . |
| 13 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 14 | Each section flies a zig-zag from here to the Front and back . |
| 15 | Candidates from all over the north east descended on this once quiet spa town , to be introduced to the delights of Sales . |
| 16 | He recalls in the book , that ‘ On Court 1 , one intrepid spectator … persuaded fellow spectators to play charades , while in the various Press rooms , another entirely different game was being played , as journalists from all over the world pondered how to fill acres of space available to record the most important events of the day ’ . |
| 17 | If so , a bacterial chromosome would resemble a professional football team , whose players have been transferred into the club from all over the place . |
| 18 | Police say they 're following up possible sightings of Dennis Garvey ’ s car from all over the country . |
| 19 | ‘ Ties in roughly with the time the vagrant jumped the train . |
| 20 | She would spend all day with her daughter and then work on her designs until late in the evening . |
| 21 | Not simply because we also want to put our bid in straightaway for the airport money which is er contrary to opinion |
| 22 | Top designers from all over the country were getting together to stage something that , it was already forecast , would be the money-raising event of the year . |
| 23 | It began life as a village feast and is now an agricultural and country sports show attracting entries from all over the North of England . |
| 24 | The event , sponsored by the Cooperative Bank and organised by the town 's recreation department , attracts entries from all over the country , many of whom run in fancy dress for their favourite charities . |
| 25 | By rail Intercity from all over the country . |
| 26 | Using Windows NT , he said , ‘ companies can downsize critical applications , provide high performance personal computing , integrate their existing desktop business applications and pull together data from all over the organisation . ’ |
| 27 | Using Windows NT , he said , ‘ companies can downsize critical applications , provide high performance personal computing , integrate their exiting desktop business applications and pull together data from all over the organisation . ’ |
| 28 | My guess is that he is a receiver of stolen cars from all over the country . |
| 29 | The venture has been conspicuously successful in giving a platform to Scottish musicians , and in building audience momentum around the country , although the break from now until the autumn could threaten the latter achievement . |
| 30 | THANKS to the efforts of thousands of persistent and courageous newsmen from all over the world , the war in ex-Yugoslavia that started in June 1991 may already be the most closely reported and copiously documented conflict in history . |