Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is said to be many decorated examples using dot and line relief , but I have found only two such decorated ones during my twenty years of detecting . |
| 2 | I must learn to sublimate my desire for my own perch by feeling happy for Aunt Louise sitting there . |
| 3 | In contrast , Queen Anne 's birthday in 1712 was celebrated " with Bonefires , illuminations and Prosperity to her Ministers and to the Loyal House of Commons " in many parts of the country , notably in Plymouth and Gloucester , and led one newsletter writer to conclude that " there was a fresh spring of Loyalty in the Kingdom after its long discountenances by crying up Revolution Principles " . |
| 4 | Gough , the first Scotland captain to be sent off , faces a one-match ban after his automatic dismissal for handling during the disastrous defeat in Berne . |
| 5 | After his initial blunder of sleeping with Miss Keeler , it was the sad fate of Profumo to be ruined by political and legal advice . |
| 6 | In a recent survey carried out for New Woman magazine , 500 women aged between 20 and 45 were asked about their personal experiences of losing weight . |
| 7 | And in Corse and Over , another four people were arrested and questioned about their alleged involvement in organising the festival . |
| 8 | So there is no doubt about the ability of the Japanese to pay for this information and knowledge , nor about their strong motivation for acquiring it . |
| 9 | The solution was a simple one : employ priests with the sole responsibility of singing the memorial requiems so as to allow the parish priests to go about their customary role of caring for the spiritual needs of the living . |
| 10 | Northumbria Chief Constable John Stevens said : ‘ This incident is a tragic example of the extreme dangers faced by police officers going about their daily duties in protecting the public . |
| 11 | We begin by talking about their daily routine of coming to school and returning home , which they enact individually and in pairs . |
| 12 | In both cases these are intellectuals talking about their own work by linking it with a process continually taking place at a popular level and in everyday life . |
| 13 | British-born teenagers have some insecurities about their own abilities in speaking Creole . |
| 14 | She went about her normal business without speaking , unless it was impossible not to reply to some query . |
| 15 | … the real difficulty here is that she was not asked about her own feeling with regard to the scar and that is a much more serious matter in this sort of case . |
| 16 | Flamboyant and stylish , she is known for her strong views on promoting the image of the University . |
| 17 | Congratulations to Lucy Jackson for taking the opportunity to run Medau classes during August and September at the Pineapple Centre in London , and for her recent success in publicising Medau in various national magazines and local newspapers . |
| 18 | Sometimes it was all she could do not to reproach Liza for her lack of consideration , for her supine acceptance in letting her mother take on the role which should have been her own . |
| 19 | Servants were essential to run a large house and family , to free the middle-class mother for her prime role of managing her house , not labouring in it , and caring for her children 's development . |
| 20 | She helped in the family café at the Sussex seaside resort of Littlehampton , which is still the base for her worldwide empire of retailing outlets . |
| 21 | Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up . |
| 22 | The ILP was specifically socialist " while many Labour unionists and politicians were essentially " labour " in that they regarded the protection of living standards and of trade unions as their primary reason for entering parliament . |
| 23 | She was used to the heckling and aggressive tones which other boys she knew adopted as their normal way of speaking . |
| 24 | Our Falconet target aircraft uses a centrifugal launcher as its principal method of getting airborne . |
| 25 | She herself eats very little , and she attempts to fit me into what she sees as her future role by teaching me to do the same . |
| 26 | Because , having gone again through her earlier ritual of introducing herself and stating whom she was there to see , she had learned , if she had translated the woman 's English correctly , that the man she had an appointment with — was not there ! |
| 27 | Cross-examined by Anthony Morris , QC , defending , he said they had become close friends through their shared interest in scouting and had become lovers about three months before her death . |
| 28 | The College is celebrating its centenary this year and this will be an opportunity for us to give thanks to God for its tremendous work in preparing men and women for christian service at home and abroad . |
| 29 | Sunrise got the go-ahead for its new station after striking a deal with another radio station , Midland Radio , to take over one of its frequencies . |
| 30 | Daedalus is designing a novel house extension , a variable-pressure bedroom , which may purchase an extra few years of life for its proud owners by slowing the metabolic rate of that third of their lifetime which they spend asleep . |