Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some closely defined circumstances , however , where it can be shown that a particular racial group has a special need with regard to education or training , access to facilities may be restricted or allocated first to its members . |
| 2 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |
| 3 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 4 | I used Hardraw as a starting and finishing point of a walk that goes first to Cotter Force , then passes along Cotterdale up on to Shunner Fell , crosses the Butter Tubs to Lovely Seat and returns by the upper falls above Hardraw Falls to the village itself . |
| 5 | Walmington-On-Sea 's arthritic Jerry-bashers were an unlikely hit , rescued from doooom by top-quality acting ( Lowe , Le Mesurier , Laurie , Pertwee , Frank Williams as the vicar ) and the same sense of Little England that bogged Last Of The Summer Wine down like treacle . |
| 6 | On Creag a'Bhancair , Glen Coe , freshly graduated Doctor Grant Farquhar , with assistance from Gary Latter , climbed Up With The Sun — a line that starts next to Uncertain Emotions the heads up and right to the remaining peg on Risk Business , follows that route to its belay and then boldly climbs the arête left of Gone With The Wind crux to belay as for Carnivore . |
| 7 | He argued that Russia had been exploited and impoverished more than any other republic by the " imperial policy of the Centre " , noting for example that although ranking third of the 15 union republics in labour productivity it was last in social expenditure . |
| 8 | The achievement of qualifying standards was often a great lift to a youngster , said Ian Smith , manager of the Northern region team that finished fifth in the championships . |
| 9 | Grubb , who has lived in the United States for some years , was brought into the British team that finished second in the Los Angeles Olympics , and will be coming to Britain hoping to make the Barcelona team . |
| 10 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 11 | Absently , he picked up a blackened spacesuit glove that lay next to it . |
| 12 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 13 | She was careful not to disturb the make-up she had applied secretly before retiring , and checked it quickly in a polished bronze mirror that lay next to the bowl , the deep yellow glow from the oil lamp she had left burning providing her with just enough light to see that none had smudged . |
| 14 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 15 | On Saturdays as a special treat Granpa would allow me to go along with him to the early morning market in Covent Garden , where he would select the fruit and vegetables that we would later sell from his pitch , just opposite Mr Salmon 's and Dunkley 's , the fish and chippy that stood next to the baker 's . |
| 16 | This highly complex area was treated in full and led first to a parliamentary statement in 1978 and then , in 1982 , to new Guidelines For Aggregates Provision in England and Wales . |
| 17 | But the smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown when she had to go into dinner herself — and sit next to her husband . |
| 18 | Come and sit next to me . ’ |
| 19 | I see that you enjoy being with the boys very much , so go and sit next to Gilbert this afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | I make sure I ride on every bus going and sit next to somebody who really does n't want to sit next to me ! |
| 21 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 22 | Bryan Robson , who steered England 's soccer team to the World Cup Finals , receives the OBE , Linford Christie , the Olympic silver medal winner and spearhead of the British team which won the European Cup and placed third in the World Cup , is awarded the MBE , as does Ellery Hanley , leader of the Great Britain rugby league side . |
| 23 | Sir John Pryce ( 1698–1761 ) of Newton , Glamorgan , was so distressed when his first wife died that he had the body embalmed and placed next to his bed . |
| 24 | He strode into the jungle of branching lines and stopped next to a sphere which opened like a flower as he leant over . |
| 25 | Many of the latter , while subsidiary in status , were also private or proprietary , belonging to a local landowner and situated next to the manor house . |
| 26 | The findings from the investigation , as given above , caused both the client and the analysts to review the situation and concentrate first on the general organisation of the filing system as a whole , to determine if it were possible to achieve some degree of commonality as a prerequisite to the development of a computer support system . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's all right , Kim , ’ Tuan Ti Fo said , going across and kneeling next to him . |
| 28 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 29 | Few were shocked because they had already heard the story and sexual embellishments like ‘ his whole body trembling and shuddering next to mine … ’ and ‘ this was an Irish Famine of the flesh ’ added little . |
| 30 | He retired from practice in 1852 because of ill health , and moved first to Kent and then to Buckinghamshire , where he died at his home , Western House , Great Marlow , 26 September 1867 . |