Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with evidence to the contrary , which the government of the day either believed or at least affected to believe , they resort to describing the reports of arms , oaths and plans for insurrection sent in by government spies as exaggerations or fabrications , especially those of Bent , from Lancashire : " The Home Office Papers contain numbers of illiterate communications from him , full of lurid hints of the approaching outbursts of the lower orders , encouraged by mysterious beings in higher places . " |
| 2 | The plans for devolution put forward by the other parties would have a grave impact not just on Scotland and Wales , but also on England . |
| 3 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S Young Sports Personality of the Year , Stephen Markham , has had requests for grants turned down by Middlesbrough Council and Cleveland County Council . |
| 4 | Yet the warning signs for England flashed brightly during victories over Divisional champions the Midlands , an England B team containing nine internationals and the North on Tuesday night . |
| 5 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 6 | This view was echoed by a BBC director general , Alasdair Milne , who remarked that the prescriptions for broadcasting set out in previous eras — even only a matter of a decade or so ago — were of little value in a rapidly changing social and political environment . |
| 7 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 8 | In part the answer might lie in a ‘ revolution of rising expectations ’ , a growing , perceived contradiction between the overt ideologies of equality and the apparent growth in opportunities for women opened out through the educational and employment systems , on the one hand , and the actual experience of being a woman on the other . |
| 9 | Designs for artisans did not in any case reach to the root of the problem-the housing of the poorest . |
| 10 | There were all sorts of arguments went on between and the central defender that 's Phil on loan from Sheffield Wednesday tonight with playing at left back , and what was doing , well maybe could explain to because I could n't fathom it either myself . |
| 11 | Tentacles of warmth spread backwards from her finger towards her heart . |
| 12 | Waves of data seethed in at her filtered through recognition systems that had never been hers . |
| 13 | Golden eye have heads which look like blobs of dough scooped up from the bench and plonked on . ’ |
| 14 | Brilliant yellow squares of rape shone luminously among the green or golden fields . |
| 15 | They can be blended , but too often in our secular society , they are poorly-understood styles of behaviour acted out between men and women in conflicting ways . |
| 16 | Steel-Maitland , Boraston , Jenkins and Fraser made up a team of experts , all of sufficient status to deal with politicians who might call into the office ; the work of the office was departmentalized for the first time and the heads of department brought together into a supervising board . |
| 17 | Later , large concentrations of police backed up by tanks appeared on the streets . |
| 18 | Whole concepts , whole reorganizations of thought swam drunkenly through her head , and lurched and revolved like the drowned woman and her orange : she no longer knew what gardens and houses were for , and their distinctions , once clear , had grown confused . |
| 19 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 20 | What is needed is criteria relating to each of the aspects of generalization listed earlier in this section for each of the levels of a scheme . |
| 21 | The Practical Translation strand consists of advanced exercises in translation , from and into the languages of specialiSation , designed to highlight theoretical aspects of translation discussed concurrently in the Theoretical Perspectives strand of the course . |
| 22 | Two packets of sandwiches snuggled up to each other on the back seat of the car , tumescent in their cellophane wrappers . |
| 23 | The branches of trees stretched out as if to peer over mill walls or rest themselves against the windowless rear walls of factory buildings . |
| 24 | Then fragments of memory floated slowly to the surface like debris from a sunken ship , and along with them the aches and twinges of a busy night . |
| 25 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 26 | They did not come near Lucie , Izzie or Gabriel , and had to be kept from starving with little presents of food left furtively on their threshold . |
| 27 | Well-dressed men and women were walking around , almost everyone wearing the ubiquitous fur hat and huge pictures of Lenin looked down from hoardings . |
| 28 | The study confirmed that acid rain was caused mainly by emissions from coal-fired power stations and stated that the huge reserves of sulphur built up in the soil meant that many Scottish and Scandinavian lakes would suffer the effects of acid rain for decades even if sulphur dioxide emissions were cut radically . |
| 29 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 30 | Behind them the dominions of Russia marched eastward through eleven time zones to the borders of China . |