Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The move , which the Germans refused to discuss , reversed the outflow of funds and led to a fall in Finnish interest rates as the market opened yesterday . |
| 62 | The boys play the role of husbands and behave in the same way as they see their fathers do in their respective homesteads . |
| 63 | There are indeed some paradoxical pains — that is , pain that is aggravated by the use of analgesics or relieved by the use of antalgesics . |
| 64 | The King model of pediplanation provided a framework for an interpretation of the vegetation patterns of the savannas of the southern hemisphere and in a series of papers Cole ( e.g. 1963 ) reviewed the climatic , edaphic and morphologic controls upon the types of savanna vegetation and concluded that the broad vegetation patterns related to the age of landsurfaces as expected from the King pediplanation model . |
| 65 | They stepped off the pavement outside and crossed over to another group of shops that curved around the square . |
| 66 | This is a high amplitude burst of contractions that start in the stomach and are propagated distally into the lower small bowel . |
| 67 | The pistol has a range of 10″ and hits with a strength of 4 and the commander has a BS of 3 ( this is included in with the profile for the Steam Tank itself ) . |
| 68 | Take himself off to Yzordderrex and set up business with Peccable ; marry Hoi-Polloi despite her crossed eyes ; have a litter of kids and retire to the Hills of the Conscious Cloud , in the Third , and raise parrots . |
| 69 | Containing the first studio cut of ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ , versions of early Jamaicans singles ‘ Belly Full ’ , ‘ Bend Down Low ’ , ‘ Natty Dread ’ and ‘ Lively Up Yourself ’ , this is , superficially , a simple set of songs that went against the grain of the mesmeric dub that was then dominating reggae . |
| 70 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 71 | In retrospect , for instance , he thought that Suite had choreography rather like Balanchine 's in the phrasing of sequences and repeats to the music , and in the lines , which were not straight like a corps de ballet of swans or sylphides but went off suddenly at an angle . |
| 72 | And anyway , why would the Cathedral jackdaws suddenly break the habit of centuries and come to the south side when their haunt had always been on the north ? |
| 73 | They reached the bank of lifts and stepped into an empty one . |
| 74 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 75 | Moldovan President Mircea Snegur imposed a state of emergency and direct presidential rule on March 28 , and called on the population to prepare to fight for the " motherland " , following a month of skirmishes and fighting in the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic [ for formation in September 1990 see p. 37723 ] . |
| 76 | At her farewell , GM gave a vote of thanks and presented with a nest of mahogany tables on behalf of the company . |
| 77 | Cleo took a single step backwards down the short flight of steps that led to the door . |
| 78 | Control of protein synthesis can occur at several different points in the sequence of steps that leads from the DNA code to a fully formed protein . |
| 79 | She hesitated , then with the point of her shoe touched a clump of fungi that grew round the roots of a large oak tree , drawing back as one burst open . |
| 80 | The river was high and sparkling , piling light debris of branches and leaves against the piers of its four stone arches ; and beyond , the walls of the town rose , and the tunnel of the open gate . |
| 81 | A rapid and widescale communication network is thus provided , and good chants can be taken over from one set of fans and used against a different set the following week . |
| 82 | The lack of welfare officers , the rarity of home leave , the concept of visits and letter-writing as a privilege which could be withdrawn as a punishment , and the denial of permission to keep family photographs , were all indications of an absence of serious interest in helping to maintain a prisoner 's contacts with the outside world . |
| 83 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 84 | Shortly after the official opening ceremony a collection of no less than 11 Norseman floatplanes that had gathered at Red Lake , started-up , taxied around Howey Bay , took-off ( a tremendous effect as the sound of 11 Pratt and Whitney R–134s revving at full power reverberated around the bay ) and performed a series of fly-bys and overshoots over the bay in salute of CF–DRD and the weekend events . |
| 85 | Thus , the draftsman should be especially careful before embarking on a long list of matters that fall within a particular covenant . |
| 86 | This means it could hold on with a couple of limbs whilst feeding with the others . |
| 87 | It was also indicated to them that while on the grade they would perform a limited range of duties as defined in a list which was published at that time . |
| 88 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |
| 89 | During my 20 years of practice in the law , there has been a great deal of vehicle taking , in precisely the kind of circumstances that led to the promulgation of the Bill by the Government . |
| 90 | The present project uses a vector chain method known as Freeman Encoding , which codes letters into sequences of strokes that conform to a number ( usually 8 ) of preset geometric directions . |