Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The example engagement letter at 1101.2 includes a request for permission for us to inform the auditors of our appointment . |
| 2 | The rubber was stretching and stretching and not tightening enough , and I could n't move my hands for fear of it tearing the flesh off a finger or biting my nose off . |
| 3 | Some 60 years after work on it ended a tip would be covered with shrubs , usually dominated by rhododendron and willow . |
| 4 | Member states will have two years after adoption in which to implement the Directive . |
| 5 | The problem is largely ameliorated by amendments to the prescribed forms for giving notice of payment in which require the defendant to state the relevant deduction withheld . |
| 6 | We took a couple of cops with us to prevent a breach of the peace and I heard one of them saying it was pointless putting rules and regulations on the wall because most of us could n't read ! |
| 7 | The tend to be unappreciative of the farm worker 's skills , not out of malice , but because they simply lack the detailed knowledge of agriculture on which to base a judgement . |
| 8 | Most of them use small sets of rules about what constitutes an affix which can safely be removed , and any stem " normalization " which may thereafter be needed to achieve conflation ( e.g. , " absorption " — " absorb " " travelling " — " travel " ) . |
| 9 | Not every Zionist or Palestinian needs to be a fervent believer in this kind of credo for it to have a force and tenacity which can not be ignored . |
| 10 | ‘ A bulldozer , a mechanical shovel and a gang of highspeed demolition workers have turned Thornton Heath tram depôt in a matter of hours into something resembling a blitzed site . |
| 11 | It was just an adventurous , yet instinctive choice of base from which to plan an international assault . |
| 12 | She spoke in her sleep , a little rill of syllables like someone imitating an instrument . |
| 13 | A formal land drain consists of short clay pipes laid in , and covered with gravel , but for the simple removal of water from a low area of a path , you would only need to dig a trench , and put about 150mm of gravel into it to lead the water away . |
| 14 | Corals which are collected by taking a reasonable amount of rock with them have a much better chance of being undamaged than those which are prised off the substrate . |
| 15 | Jock has chosen a life of crime within which to fashion a self . |
| 16 | BRITISH construction industry bosses are running out of superlatives with which to describe the slump . |
| 17 | Visiting can play an important part in helping you decide on your choice of university , so we try to provide a number of opportunities for you to visit the University . |
| 18 | He argued that because Lloyd 's , as a market place , had its own effective communications network by word of mouth for anyone seeking a change of job or a company looking for a specialist , any use of headhunters was immediately suspicious . |
| 19 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |
| 20 | Then there was much scuffling and grabbing and a lot of talk regarding which lamppost the rope should be thrown over . |
| 21 | Huntsmen rapidly learned this trick and would carry a pair of ringdoves with them to render the karkadann helpless before their attack . |
| 22 | Suger and Odo of Deuil between them established the norms for the house 's long tradition of royal historiography ; of these the chief was that whatever the Capetians did should be presented in the most favourable light possible . |
| 23 | Hahnemann disagreed with this opinion and as a result of self-experimentation with it rediscovered the forgotten principle of treatment by similars . |
| 24 | The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city . |
| 25 | I had run away from Sir Tom because I needed to find a bedrock of truth on which to build a life . |
| 26 | But even more , the student should come to understand that there are an infinite number of frameworks with which to describe the world ; and that none has any binding claim over the others . |
| 27 | Because of the devolved nature of SCOTVEC 's provision , it is important to make sure that schools and colleges have a local point of contact with whom to discuss the wide range of issues which can arise — like |
| 28 | This work , it is true , was largely conducted in the belief that simply gathering information alone would eventually lead to an understanding of the brain , but the fact remains that we now have an impressive body of evidence against which to evaluate the new theories that are emerging . |
| 29 | Hepworth justified poaching from literature because of ‘ the advantage of a well-made plot , which was not at all easy to come by in original film scenarios ’ , but what this ignores is the responsibility of producers like him to foster the writing skills which would end British cinema 's reliance on the novel or play , and novelistic or theatrical styles of storytelling . |
| 30 | In his pioneering study , Noel Boaden ‘ suggests that activity in any service will depend on the incidence of need for that service , on the disposition of the authority to provide the service and on the availability of resources with which to provide the service ’ ( Boaden 1971:21 ) . |