Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland . |
| 2 | For both the TCR- α and TCR -β mutations , intercrosses between heterozygous mice gave rise to homozygous mutant mice at the expected frequency of 25% . |
| 3 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 4 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 5 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 6 | Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth . |
| 7 | The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward . |
| 8 | ( b ) by an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies , or |
| 9 | ( b ) an entirely new company , formed for the purpose , making simultaneous recommended share exchange offers for both companies . |
| 10 | The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible . |
| 11 | And we 've got a list of people who have responded to telesales offers for ambient music compilation albums — about three thousand on that one … |
| 12 | The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road . |
| 13 | As the speed builds through 200 knots I feel the increased pitch sensitivity , my bottom lifting from the parachute pack as I press the twin pitots on this tiny nose further towards the gleaming layer of snowy stratocumulus below . |
| 14 | She records for Mute Records , who , as the the sales of Dépeche Mode show , are no slouches in distributing sounds to the masses . |
| 15 | There is a method of solving the cube , due to Morwen Thistlethwaite , my colleague at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London , that always restores the cube in at most 50 moves ( recently reduced from 52 ) and simple counting shows that some positions require at least 18 moves ( counting 180° turns as single moves ) or 21 right-angle turns . |
| 16 | The artist alienates her objets trouvés through clever arrangements and marriages of incompatible elements — as in the Lautreamontesque encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table . |
| 17 | A full airbrake approach is a potential overshoot if the glider flies through any lift . |
| 18 | For secondly he sits through many lunches , discussing life and love and never mentioning football . |
| 19 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 20 | Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 . |
| 21 | But , in keeping with the decline of the Kentish hop industry , they have been turned into weekend retreats for green-wellied Londoners driving trendy 4×4 jeeps . |
| 22 | These were highly prized and burnt only by the priests or priestesses during magical rites , worship of the gods or for healing purposes . |
| 23 | Would the average person , who never thinks about such things and is unfit and unsteady , have survived ? |
| 24 | Whatever one thinks about this draft — and most lawyers who have studied it reckon it to be reasonably good , though it grants the president extensive powers that could be abused — the real issue has been how to get it adopted as Russia 's new constitution . |
| 25 | As he grows older he thinks about fewer things — he is now mainly occupied with the Common Market , the cold war and the Atlantic Alliance . |
| 26 | That 's all he ever thinks about these days . ’ |
| 27 | On average a school pupil enrols for 2.2 modules in a year compared to 5.6 modules for an FE student . |
| 28 | ‘ She plays for higher stakes than the ones you can offer . ’ |
| 29 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 30 | He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs . |