Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often it is better ( > ) for eating and comes on if they miss a meal ; headache with hunger . |
| 2 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 3 | Surveys on buildings close to the explosion in St Mary Axe will continue today , but initial estimates put the bill for rebuilding and repairs at more than £200 million . |
| 4 | She has Emma 's passion for matchmaking and continues to try to marry Kit 's sister Meg to a novelist , Patrick Barlow — who is the type of homosexual who has very agreeable woman friends , but is in love with an odious , common boy with ginger hair . |
| 5 | Officials are preparing new figures after accepting that estimates by their own consultants , Touche Ross , are inaccurate . |
| 6 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 7 | True , there was the other mass gathering-a packed hall in Medellin , Drug City , listening as poets challenged the deadly fluence of the Mafia through writing that has the characteristics of war work : defiant , angry , and sad . |
| 8 | A function which opens a file ( or device ) for writing and returns the file handle of the file . |
| 9 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 10 | The scrutiny takes nothing for granted but looks directly at what actually happens at all levels of the area under study . |
| 11 | I wanted to show her why hospitals like Barts are crucial as providers not only of specialist care of the rare and the bizarre , but also superlative care of the plain and usual , with a quality of nursing that surpasses the ‘ barely adequate ’ striven for by the NHS executive . |
| 12 | This reflects the management 's recognition that the style of policing that occurs in areas like West Belfast heavily influences the public 's perception of the police . |
| 13 | By the time they have reached their 40s , many former fatties have found a pattern of eating that suits them and keeps them slim . |
| 14 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 15 | The coronation of Bel Shanaar marks the end of the war with Chaos and the start of the great period of rebuilding that sees the rise of Tiranoc to pre-eminence among the Elf realms . |
| 16 | In this respect it contradicts the approach to education in general which is to enable children to acquire critical skills and achieve the kind of understanding that makes knowledge their own , not that of their parents or society . |
| 17 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 18 | Duesenberry argues that consumers ( who have become accustomed to the income level of OY and the standard of living that goes with it ) will increase their apc in an attempt to maintain their level of consumption and will move down the consumption line SC . |
| 19 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 20 | Television erects major obstacles to that goal both by imposing its own definition of what a whole person is and by teaching us a way of living that accords with its own curriculum . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , happiness is difficult to find , and it seems man is unable to remain happy even when he finds a way of living that seems to suit his psychic constitution — a combination of biological givens , and the consequences of the individual 's resolution of his conflicts during his personal development . |
| 22 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 23 | The suspense novel stops short of the pure thriller , a kind of writing that falls outside the scope of this book , but it is not always easy to say just where the line should be drawn . |
| 24 | A form of writing that deals with the historical evolution of the landscape can be recommended to anyone interested in understanding why the English landscape looks as it does . |
| 25 | We write to express astonishment at the standard of writing that has featured in much of your pre-election coverage . |
| 26 | In contrast to the predominant tradition of writing that concentrates on teachers ' professionalism , Connell examines teachers ' labour as work . |
| 27 | On the other hand , in the infra red , there is a causal and positive relationship of hemispherical reflectance with the degree of scattering that occurs as a consequence of discontinuities in the refractive indices within the leaf . |
| 28 | Precisely because we are forced , in order to model these relations , into defining design activity as it takes place in its real context — that of the social — and do not attempt to abstract it , to isolate it from these relations , we find we build a model of designing that has surprising efficacy in application to questions of design method . |
| 29 | It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent . |
| 30 | They are submissive but dignified , with that look of yearning that brings to mind Ehrenburg 's comment that Modigliani saw all his subjects as lost children : his own Jeanne , Zborowski , and perhaps most of all , although he would never admit it , he himself come into that category . |