Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is still , however , disagreement between researchers as to when the mother produces the most nutritious milk . |
| 2 | They seized the opportunity for independence or at least a new bargain with Moscow — regardless of whatever views might be held by the silent masses . |
| 3 | The pressures for independence or at least a greater measure of autonomy that emerged in the Baltic republics were the most serious of their kind that the Soviet leadership had to confront in the early Gorbachev years . |
| 4 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 5 | Mr Tony Blair , Labour employment spokesman , said while the rate of increase in unemployment had slowed , more people were still out of work than in virtually every other EC country . |
| 6 | Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , said the rate of increase in the jobless total appeared to have slowed , but he said more were out of work than in virtually every other European Community country . |
| 7 | There are various technical terms for these two parts , and also differences of opinion as to where a particular clause divides , but still , this much seems agreed : the clause has a bi-partite structure , and the function of the choice as to what information we put in which part is to enable us to bring different bits of information into differing degrees of prominence . |
| 8 | In written language , for example , since there is no one-to-one correspondence between the marks ( alphabetic representations ) on the page , and how they are to be pronounced in speech , there is typically a range of alternatives as to how a written letter should be said . |
| 9 | ‘ After flying the plane I have a lot of respect for the guys , who at 20 years of age and with only a limited number of flight hours in a T-6 , soloed in this plane . ’ |
| 10 | Elaborated by his belief in the Vicariate of Christ and in both the priestly and the monarchic powers of Melchizedek , he seemed in no doubt as to the " plenitude " of the pope 's powers . |
| 11 | There were some who denied their loss and held on to formulas of belief but by far the largest numbers of devotees simply withdrew from political activity into a position of depression . |
| 12 | By the autumn of 1340 , still awaiting the fruits of these grants , deserted by Lewis of Bavaria and with only the naval victory at Sluys to encourage him , Edward was borrowing from his own archers and offering his commanders as hostages for his debts to his allies . |
| 13 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 14 | Writing was a sign of the Fall , it was a kind of punishment ; Dolle was still living in the Garden of Eden or at least the Sugar Bar . |
| 15 | Mike and Lindy are full of suggestions as to where the prettiest spots are and which stretches of canal have the best pubs . |
| 16 | David and Angie came to the opening night of Pork and to nearly every night thereafter and we became really good friends . |
| 17 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 18 | But even when they were famous names like those , Madame used to recite or whisper them like they were the names of lovers or at least the dear departed , girlfriends , people she had actually met . |
| 19 | All have been inspected and found to offer high standards of cleanliness and at least an adequate range of equipment . |
| 20 | What follows is an examination of structure and of how an awareness by the teacher of its significance can help him find the game in the drama . |
| 21 | It has submitted final proposals to ministers along with a range of options as to how the link might be built . |
| 22 | At the moment , you can get adaptors for computers to cope with some form of speech or at least a limited range of verbal instructions erm and in fact Apple computers and others have little packages which allow about thirty well-defined verbal instructions to , to go in . |
| 23 | During the 1970s the Community was preoccupied with enlargement of the Community , institutional crises such as the Luxembourg accords , following the refusal of France to accept qualified majority ruling in the Council of Minsters , frequent budgetary difficulties and differences of view as to how the Community should be financed which resulted in very little progress towards the achievement of a single market . |
| 24 | Hedges have been pulled out , stone walls pulled down , all for the sake of productivity and with not a whimper of opposition from successive governments . |
| 25 | Joining General Howard and Major Wood were three easterners , described by Monteith 's wife as , ‘ kings of finance but with not a speck of Indian sense , experience or knowledge ’ . |
| 26 | It would be a mistake to follow early modern Europe in the importance it attached to titles ; but the emergence of a more clearly defined diplomatic hierarchy had some significance , both as cause and result , for the parallel emergence of diplomacy as at least a kind of profession . |
| 27 | But in a reasonably just society this belief in an obligation to obey the law , this attitude of respect for law , is as valid as an obligation acquired through consent and for precisely the same reasons . |
| 28 | This is a convenient practice as it avoids the need , for example , for speculation as to how the injured person 's condition will develop from the time of the initial injury or for speculation as to what his financial loss up to the date of trial at least will be . |
| 29 | In November 1985 North shipped out of America two Boeing 707-loads of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles , ostensibly for Israel although by now the pretence was wearing thin and they were simply transferred to Israeli cargo aircraft and flown straight on to Iran . |
| 30 | Volunteers have been asked to come up with ideas as to how the club should be run and what the objectives of it should be . |