Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my knowledge , cranks and dreamers have gone around talking about and looking for Homo superior ever since the primitive times when writers still used paper . |
| 2 | This massive loss of forest is by no means due entirely to the timber industry , there being other contributory factors such as conversion of land for urbanisation , agriculture , and increase in domestic animals associated with human populations . |
| 3 | There is typically a row of icons onscreen instead of a menu of named functions . |
| 4 | This suggests that the atmospheric CO 2 on Venus is in equilibrium with these types of surface rock and that there exist on Venus accessible surface repositories of CO 2 mainly in the form of carbonates . |
| 5 | A set of books relevant respectively to the First , Second and Third levels , which constitute the official practical guide to the examination , written by the examiners . |
| 6 | A passage from Verdelot 's ‘ Ogn'hor per voi sospiro ’ ( in his Secondo libro de Madrigali , 1537 ) will illustrate typical early madrigal texture with an exchange of phrases obvious only to the singer ( madrigals were seldom written with listeners in mind ) ( cantus , bars 2–4 , and tenor 4–6 ; altus bars 2–4 , and cantus 4–6 ) , contrasts of four- and two-part , writing , highlighting of ‘ tacendo ’ and ‘ amando ’ with their semitonal sighs : |
| 7 | It has been calculated that there has been an average of about 30 feet of deposition close inshore during the last 5000 years . |
| 8 | Section 64 of the Act of 1986 is the first section of Chapter VI which deals with the powers of intervention exercisable directly by the S.I.B . |
| 9 | In answer to the question ‘ why does stigma persist ? ’ the products of interactionism shy away from the realities of social structures , preferring to provide an ‘ answer ’ in terms of the spurious generalities of ‘ eternal verities ’ . |
| 10 | Consequently , a real anxiety prevailed about pre-emptive social work action in relation to the accuracy and reliability of evidence obtainable thereafter from the child witness , the alleged perpetrator or any corroborating witnesses . |
| 11 | As a basis for his performance , Crawford studied film of Peters staggering helplessly around the track at the 1954 Empire Games in Vancouver , Canada , unable to reach the finishing line . |
| 12 | Up until today , the remainder of No. 263–265 together with the strip has been let and occupied as one single set of retail shop premises with a frontage to the Walworth Road . |
| 13 | I have also looked at Beta Cygni or Albireo , in the Swan , where there is a golden yellow primary of magnitude 3.2 together with a blue companion of magnitude 5.4 . |
| 14 | People are leaving Paris at the rate of some 20,000 a year , chased out by soaring property prices and the shortage of rental accommodation — especially of flats big enough for a family . |
| 15 | When we made available the special allocation of £3.5 million earlier in the year , eight authorities in Scotland came forward with specific projects that resulted in 700 extra housing units being made available . |
| 16 | Rohan asked , a note of anger simmering just below the surface of his voice . |
| 17 | There are lots of spots close together around the city centre , then many more close by in a car . |
| 18 | There is a vitality of subject unknown elsewhere in the province , in the second century ( except , perhaps , for the Oceanus mosaic , again from Verulamium ) . |
| 19 | Worldwide underwriting loss for the quarter was $80.5m — representing 7.9% of premiums ( 1992 : $135.0m loss — 14.8% of premiums ) , an improvement of $54.5m due largely to a sharp reduction in the UK underwriting deficit . |
| 20 | Throughout history , both that point and the example of Leonardo 's inquisitive mind have led mankind towards heights unknown even in the realms of fantasy … |
| 21 | ( ‘ Crucify , crucify ! ’ ) that is articulated at the very top of the treble register and brings the work to its climax — an unforgettable piece of composition unequalled anywhere in the European music of its time . |
| 22 | It was in cities such as Rome , Venice , Florence and Verona that the Renaissance started — the re-awakening of the arts , new directions in painting and architecture — movements which were to span the continents and leave a legacy of culture unequalled anywhere in the world . |
| 23 | A mode of speech familiar only to a group or profession ; unintelligible words . |
| 24 | Section 34(1) applies subsection ( 1 ) of section 4 and subsection ( 1 ) of section 5 generally for the purposes of the Act . |
| 25 | In only three cases was administration of gangliosides compatible temporally with the onset of symptoms . |
| 26 | The sound is acceptable enough ; but I do wish that companies which release older recordings like this would spend just a little more ( what would it cost ? ) to accompany them with notes worthy even of the music as slight as this . |
| 27 | Mary A. B. Brazier has described the work of Hans Berger as the triumph of a man working with equipment inadequate even by the standards of his day . |
| 28 | With a background like that , when under threat from cancer , I too began to move my resources forward , slowly , methodically , with each move carefully considered and with reinforcements available just behind the lines . |
| 29 | During the late 1970s , the Bank of England issued three variable-rate stocks with interest payable half-yearly at an annual average ½%; above the daily average rate of discount on 91-day Treasury bills over a previous six-month period . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 1 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by a person on whom a notice has been served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there the information or documents required by that notice and of exercising the powers conferred by subsection ( 5 ) of that section . |