Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If more than one LIFESPAN system is running simultaneously on a computer it will be necessary for each one to operate its own independent offline system using different media items . |
| 2 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |
| 3 | I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money . |
| 4 | ‘ And for that you played your little game ? |
| 5 | You er but when we were talking about this she told me that |
| 6 | We worked 12 hours a day , and for this he paid me 200 francs ( £20 ) a week because , he said , he had to take our board and lodging from our pay . ’ |
| 7 | The day after that they hired their own helicopter , landed in the local village , repossessed their wire , flew it back in and re-erected it . |
| 8 | Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot 's . |
| 9 | And er after that I think my right arm 's got badly burnt . |
| 10 | After that she practised her cheery-little-girl act to allay any of Maxim 's suspicions which of course he would n't have anyway . |
| 11 | After that he cut her dead and let shop doors bang in her face . |
| 12 | After this they go their separate ways . |
| 13 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 14 | Incredibly , impersonation of this sort to get hold of data is not a criminal offense , in this country there is no law as such which makes it illegal to steal information , and the main piece of legislation , the Data Protection Act contains a massive loophole , it only applies to the holders of information not to third parties trying to get their hands on it . |
| 15 | Xavier Mellery , the painter of the nuns , was described in the catalogue as " creating a light which is the negation of that which envelops our immediate visual experience of things ; it is rather the Interior light of your mind … " |
| 16 | During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 . |
| 17 | Making overtures towards another who mirrored our own disquieting and long-buried Chinese identity was both a fearful and exciting prospect , and neither of us quite got up the nerve to take the initiative . |
| 18 | At the age of twenty-eight he established his own printing business . |
| 19 | Usually there are a number of these which makes it necessary for the accountant to visit the record or publishing company . |
| 20 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 21 | First of all I want my young reporters to be able to observe . |
| 22 | One of those who saw it all happen was a young actress called Sheila Hancock . |
| 23 | Similarly 26 per cent of regular smokers thought their best friends would not mind them smoking , compared with 2 per cent of those who thought their best friends would mind . |
| 24 | To deal with the jibes of those who called her Big Ben . |
| 25 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 26 | Hence 90 per cent of those who rate their overall health as poor also report chronic health problems , compared with 34 per cent of those who report good health . |
| 27 | Implicit in Pecham 's letter of 1281 which outlined his hierocratic principles was the paternalist view that the church 's task was to affirm and support the king to meet his divinely imposed responsibilities to the Christian commonweal , the realm . |
| 28 | In a subsidy assessment of 1554 they estimated their annual income at over £500 : of this some £360 was expended on various charities ( including the salaries of " divers schoolmasters " ) . |
| 29 | Paul Marland is one of thousands who used his own personal wealth of at least a quarter of a million pounds to become a Lloyds name . |
| 30 | ‘ It is times like these which give us all hope , ’ she said . |