Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children .
2 A campaign to prevent the closure of Edinburgh 's dental school ended in failure when the Universities Funding Council announced its intention to phase out the school 's grant from next autumn .
3 A reformed chocoholic and one who turned her back on butter only a few months ago , I was interested to see if my attempts to live more healthily had borne fruit .
4 She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant .
5 He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him .
6 Having failed to reach a cross about five yards over his head in training yesterday the irrepressible Rangers marksman clambered on the shoulders of towering team-mate Dave McPherson and chirped : ‘ I 'll get the next one ! ’
7 Back from Cuba , his belief in non-violence now a fading memory , he fell in with the dope-smoking radicals of the key young radical movement , Students for a Democratic Society .
8 And of course , our discussion of ministry i.e. the activity of the people of God is not just a domestic thing about the URC .
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