Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor little buggers are going to dream about that for weeks . |
| 2 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 3 | they op they did about that in Neighbours , are n't they , they had the |
| 4 | Now the County Council is concerned about that in terms of a major improvement of the A fifty nine , er from an environmental point of view particularly through the national park . |
| 5 | Another reason for low in males is the . |
| 6 | Although about two-thirds of students still came from the gentry estate , an increasing proportion of them seem to have been poor . |
| 7 | Taking all recent purchases into account , credit now finances about two-thirds of cars and over half of domestic appliances , TVs , stereos etc. bought ; nearly half of all home improvements , furniture and home furnishings ; and one-third or more of hobby items or jewellery , clothes , toys or presents . |
| 8 | This showed that about two-thirds of jobs generated at inner city establishments were filled by commuters from other parts of the conurbation . |
| 9 | Bourdieu 's Distinction , in common with several other approaches to consumption , such as that of semiotics , is largely based upon the mapping of differences between goods on to differences between social groups , which , in the more reductionist instances , are often treated as prior social divisions unaltered by this process of signification . |
| 10 | For beginners it is best to start on slow , careful speech , such as that of newsreaders , before attempting conversational speech . |
| 11 | The evidence indicates an immediate confirmation of Mercian overlordship in the territory of the Hwicce , when at the beginning of his reign Offa defined the relationship of Eanberht and his brothers , Uhtred and Ealdred , rulers of the Hwicce , to himself as that of reguli , kinglets ( CS 183 : S 55 ; CS 107 : S 56 ) , but Offa 's position may have been more secure here than elsewhere . |
| 12 | Now arguments such as that in terms of composition of the sea relative to the composition of crustal rock |
| 13 | The newer taxes , such as that upon windows , were no different from the more traditional revenues . |
| 14 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 15 | Be able to tell the time and understand times expressed in terms of 12- and 24-hour clocks . |
| 16 | Important members of the KGB , the Politburo and the GRU walked about resplendent in clothes finely tailored by Georgi Kirov . |
| 17 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 18 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 19 | John Major said : ‘ I have reflected long and hard but have reached the conclusion that we can not rewrite history by substituting our latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , whatever we might think . ’ |
| 20 | Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time . |
| 21 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 22 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 23 | ‘ Normally they do n't bother running through that in words because they open the sealed packages in front of the person . |
| 24 | For example , the paleontologist Loris Russell points out that the skeletal anatomy of dinosaurs appears to be halfway between that of crocodilians and birds . |
| 25 | I find it difficult to put my thoughts and feelings about this into words , so I will leave it to others . |
| 26 | Gardeners have been arguing about this for years , so I hope we can clear the matter up now once and for all . |
| 27 | I 've thought about this for years and never told anybody … |
| 28 | Some researchers have sought information about this from findings about the health of offspring . |
| 29 | Helen and Louisa talk about this in Chapters 8 and 9 . |
| 30 | To think about this in terms of the relative roles of heads and other teachers is in the words of Campbell ( 1985:154 — 7 ) insubstantial and dated . |