Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then complicates matters further by promoting voluntarism in a market that can only imperfectly express itself . |
| 2 | Employers in Japan use all of these methods to prevent the mobility of key workers especially in deferring pay from earlier to later years thereby rewarding highly continuous service to one company . |
| 3 | Her crew was days away from taking part in the war against Germany for real . |
| 4 | She was two weeks away from giving birth to their first child . |
| 5 | A Turkish lorry driver was jailed for 16 years yesterday for smuggling heroin worth £1.2 million in his vehicle . |
| 6 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 7 | You do not , of course , solve problems merely by throwing money at them . |
| 8 | He also wrote the still-secret legal opinion which authorized Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to kidnap fugitives overseas without getting permission from foreign governments . |
| 9 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 10 | Sea worms , living in tubes , aerate their burrows periodically by washing water through them and thereby both receive oxygen from the fresh flow of water and keep their tubes clean . |
| 11 | There are all kinds of reasons for Africa 's food problems — rich and precious land being used for cash crops instead of to grow food for local people ; a much smaller proportion of land fertile enough for cultivation than is the case in Asia or Europe ; farmers being paid such pathetic prices for food crops that they turn to coffee or tobacco in order to survive . |