Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They later transferred the letters patent to Casey during some negotiations which eventually came to nothing . |
| 2 | For some minutes she again wondered if Cara would have fared any better . |
| 3 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 4 | The clinic has taken the unusual step of hiring a dentist to look after those patients who simply ca n't afford to pay for private treatment . |
| 5 | After several pints he suddenly startled the whole pub by saying in a loud , benevolent voice , ‘ And a Little Child shall lead Them . ’ |
| 6 | Often on his in-service courses for such teachers he cleverly used gifted teachers to set and lead the practical sessions . |
| 7 | Whether or not this is so , few would deny that Abbado is a sound choice , a man of few words who nevertheless commands great respect among orchestral players and is as highly praised for his Rossini as for his Mahler , his Mozart or his Brian Ferneyhough . |
| 8 | The precise factors which weighed in Silkin 's mind in this programme of designations are reviewed by Cullingworth ( 1979 ) ; also the factors in the rejection of some proposals which finally did not feature in the list . |
| 9 | And it is that point which has raised questions in the minds of some MPs who hitherto have been relatively happy with Clarke . |
| 10 | Indeed , I have heard of some anglers who deliberately attach a big hook to the ‘ feeder and catch plenty of barbel on it . |
| 11 | The question then is not one of the balance of quantities between ‘ market ’ and ‘ non-market ’ activities , but of the quality of performance of such services which vitally inter-relate with more directly market-determined employment . |
| 12 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 13 | A major component of the project will involve the development of a suitable methodology for the analysis and monitoring of such transfers which hitherto has been lacking . |
| 14 | When prompted during discussion , some teachers conceded that by ‘ children ’ in some of these phrases they probably meant the boys . |
| 15 | Or perhaps one of these workaholics who only became aware of difficulties in their marriage when their wives had packed their bags and left their goodbye note on the mantelpiece ? |
| 16 | Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us . |
| 17 | Some of these rituals we still practise today , though their meaning is only dimly remembered . |
| 18 | Yet , as I pointed out above , it is the origin and causes of these circumstances which really need to be explained — not to mention other , non-individualistic phenomena like religion and cultural tradition which this approach , with its narrow focus on childhood conditioning , usually quite ignores . |
| 19 | The original sample covered 297 trainees for 96 employers in the Dundee and Renfrew Districts of Scotland and the re-interview survey covers 88 of these employers who now engage 222 trainees . |
| 20 | If this all sounds a bit old-fashioned and too good to be true , you have only to look at the happy faces of these children who thoroughly enjoy spending their weekends mucking out , cleaning tack and grooming , while waiting their turn to ride . |
| 21 | But he also sub-divided these manifold elites into a governing elite , composed of all leaders who directly or indirectly play a part in ruling the society , and a non-governing elite who make up the remainder of the elites ( 1935 , vol. 3 , pp. 1422 — 4 ) . |
| 22 | We believe that the Direction must require notification of all schemes which either individually or cumulatively add up to 20,000 sq m , where separate schemes are being considered together . |
| 23 | The form of report with which we are dealing we have termed the ‘ corporate report ’ , by which we mean the comprehensive package of information of all kinds which most completely describes an organization 's economic activity … |
| 24 | The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the first of many rebellions which gradually transformed British attitudes to the non-white world . |
| 25 | Just 4kms from the resort is the first of many places you just ‘ have ’ to see the Varone waterfalls . |
| 26 | Their confidence grew into overwhelming proportions and in the opinion of many observers they swiftly became Manchester 's tedious twosome . |
| 27 | The first is that of many Catholics who already thought the Council a strange and almost unnecessary development . |
| 28 | Graham Allen , a Labour campaigner for better conditions , is one of many MPs who also want more research and computer help . |
| 29 | In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship . |
| 30 | It is a collection of those countries which generally have two things in common : they abut on to the ocean , and they are in some positive — always positive — way economically or politically vibrant . |