Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was all of a piece with his generous custom of letting his research students take full credit for collaborative research and leaving his own name off their publications . |
| 2 | Stirling has already established an undoubted reputation for innovative teaching and offers its students an excellent learning environment . |
| 3 | With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years . |
| 4 | He took her wrist between impersonal fingers and consulted his watch . |
| 5 | In order that the parent company can maintain individual operational records for each subsidiary and determine which companies are operating most effectively , details of individual balances , and any bank interest they would have attracted , are provided . |
| 6 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 7 | When you are satisfied with your interview structure take a copy for each candidate and keep it with their application form and the additional questions which arose from it . |
| 8 | The publisher fixes a net price for each book and sells it to the bookseller . |
| 9 | And when privatisation of services was introduced many staff lost job security , worked for lower pay and saw their pension rights eroded . |
| 10 | So movement neither substitutes for spatial information nor disrupts it . |
| 11 | But the Suez crisis in November confirmed France 's desire for European co-operation whilst damaging her relations with Britain . |
| 12 | For heaven 's sake get your weight off that ankle and rest it . ’ |
| 13 | You can take that rubbish off that chair and wipe it , will you ? ’ |
| 14 | It 's people feeding off each other that have something to hide . |
| 15 | Many vicars or pastors want to hold on to their colleagues for dear life and cause them to be tied to two works rather than releasing them fully to one . |
| 16 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 17 | When she turned her head away he captured her face between strong hands and made her look at him . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the people I talked to was a salesman for Allied Dunbar and said they 'd do a great job . |
| 19 | The present concern for sport as polling day approaches is typical of how politicians are adept at using the subject for short-term gain while ignoring its long-term problems . |
| 20 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 21 | We also looked for unpublished trials but found none . |
| 22 | Husbands and wives would spill juicy tidbits about their personal peccadilloes to a refined occultist during private sessions and find themselves being charmingly blackmailed . |
| 23 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 24 | ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops ! |
| 25 | Well thanks President for that welcome and thank you colleagues , Congress , for the welcome that you 've given to me . |
| 26 | He then collected cheque books for that account and used them to obtain over £7,000 in cash and property . |
| 27 | And so sudden , the breakdown , the feelable absence of all agreement , of all consensus — except for that money-hate or anger you get when cities wedge their rich and poor as close as two faces of a knife … |
| 28 | Reg Akehurst 's charge was a firm favourite for that contest and gave his backers not the slightest hint of a scare when leading at the furlong pole to score by a length-and-a-half. way off the pace makes an accurate assessment of his progress very difficult for the handicapper , but this observer is convinced there is significant improvement still to come . |
| 29 | Thread a piece of string through each hole and knot it in place . |
| 30 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |