Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , it is submitted , can it properly be regarded as one in pursuance of which possession or ownership passes either . |
| 2 | Now talking of freebies , they could actually watch a cage being drilled for them as part of it . |
| 3 | In spite of much justifiable criticism , the Flory-Huggins theory can still generate considerable interest because of the limited amount of success which can be claimed for it in relation to phase equilibria studies . |
| 4 | The lady went out and drove away and Joe , who had witnessed the meeting , went into the kitchen where Mary was saying to Helen , ‘ Eeh ! the lies rolled off her like butter off a hot griddle . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't find that difficult , that 's really expected of me as part of the caring . |
| 6 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 7 | The press reported that Sununu blamed his recent difficulties on a vendetta being pursued against him by enemies within the White House , elements of the liberal press and Jewish groups opposed to his Lebanese ancestry and his calls for even-handedness in US policy towards the Middle East . |
| 8 | A complaint was made to the industrial tribunal by Mrs Gunning that Mirror Newspapers had unlawfully discriminated against her in relation to ‘ employment ’ by refusing or deliberately omitting to offer her employment contrary to Section 6(1) ( c ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . |
| 9 | Inside her she felt a power she could never manage to express ; it was trapped inside her like water under the ground and she was the only one with the dowser 's twigs who knew where it lay and could bring it to the surface . |
| 10 | The House will also recall — I know that hon. Members of all parties will welcome this — that I have also made it clear that there will be no downward adjustment in 1993 in income-related benefit rates to correspond to the nearly £700 million which , in terms of 1992-93 benefit rates , is included in them in respect of the 20 per cent . |
| 11 | He brought the screaming Gilera four to the North West in ‘ 55 , and won on it at 97.60mph over the old course . |
| 12 | Hence partners must inform the other partners of all personal profits which have accrued to them by virtue of their being partners . |
| 13 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 14 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 15 | An important working library on South-East Asia and much modern French literature has come to us by bequest of M. Jacques Dauphin , father of our former Lady Carlisle Research Fellow , Dr. Claudine Dauphin ; we owe special thanks to Dr. Dauphin and the army of Somervillian and non-Somervillian friends who helped transport this large collection of books across the Channel , and to Ann Raynes who stepped in at short notice to deliver the last consignment from London to Oxford . |
| 16 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 17 | Time after time , woman admitted to me that their partner 's success not only mattered to them in terms of money , but was a crucial component in their respect and desire for these men . |
| 18 | Northwich , Middlewich and Nantwich , as well as Droitwich in Hereford and Worcester , were all known to the Romans for their salt deposits , and several ancient routes across Britain are known as ‘ salt ways ’ because salt was carried on them in trains of packhorses to the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 19 | Preston 's maternal grandad , his Great-Uncle Eddie and a cousin called Pete had all died from having things dropped on them from cranes down the docks . |
| 20 | This is not too frightening an idea : we have already come across it in terms of the ever-expanding Universe . |
| 21 | In my last message I listed the impressive accolades won by you for Rentokil in the past year . |
| 22 | Local schools were again in evidence at the Central Region Youth Orchestra concert in the MacRobert in March , part of a series of concerts , drama and other events organised by them as part of the Jubilee . |
| 23 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |
| 24 | If you 're going to be ridiculously pedantic about principles , as you call them , practically every private villa in existence is owned by somebody with loads of money — is that a good reason never to rent a villa ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ in situations like the present the defendants ‘ are ’ the company in the sense that any offences committed by them in relation to the affairs of the company would be capable of being treated as offences committed by the company itself . |
| 26 | They have had no opportunity whatsoever to hear the nature of the point which is due to be considered by you in relation to these submissions , and I think that it would be in the interests of public understanding of this case were they enabled to hear . |
| 27 | He had watched her cast aside her thin robe , and he had smiled with such infinite love and such intimacy , that pain had twisted through her from breast to womb . |
| 28 | A given work of literature is related for them to literature in general , and not to the personality of its author . |
| 29 | He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ? |
| 30 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |