Example sentences of "[prep] [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describing a map with words and symbols , such as appear on this page , is not very easy ; but you can imagine that each entry on the map is recorded as a fact of the form here-found ( x , y , thing ) where x and y are coordinates , longitude and latitude , and thing is any feature such as a mountain or river or city . |
| 2 | This happens most often when massive shoals of fry from that year 's spawning present themselves as an easy meal to a shoal of bream . |
| 3 | It is quite possible that trace minerals and access to plants not available the rest of the year are essential for the fertilisation , hatching and development of fry in some species of fish that have proved difficult to breed in the past . |
| 4 | Ah , I would n't of imagine for one second he would want to watch , so it might be better if I buy the video and see |
| 5 | Discarded fragments of objects are the most common type of find on archaeological sites , and consequently it is this ‘ yesterday 's rubbish ’ that provides most information about the site and the people who used it . |
| 6 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 7 | they , they sort of compete with each other for different steps |
| 8 | Just talk about examples of your everyday life that sort of illustrate in some ways some aspect of the question . |
| 9 | When , when this was first suggested erm was couple of questions came back and Selwyn and I spoke about it , was the fact that w are there or would there be any recriminations for people who kind of belong to any Neighbourhood Watch , like a brick through a window or , or , because anybody who saw erm that programme on television |
| 10 | The comic has travelled far from schoolboy stories of daring-do to sophisticated art form . |
| 11 | Indeed the best characterization of the meaning of have in this use seems to be the idea of " controlling the production of an effect " . |
| 12 | In both examples , one could substitute see for know with little change in meaning . |
| 13 | Although only a little more than one-third of the farms grew silage the 820 ha grown was similar in amount to that cut for hay . |
| 14 | I feel certain you will be interested in come of these reports and to aid distribution , and to prevent our troubling you with unwanted copies , I would be grateful if you could arrange for the enclosed card to be completed and returned to us . |
| 15 | • many banks forgot their traditional cautions in their head on scramble for increased market share ; and |
| 16 | Eva 's knowledge of mathematics meant she could handle the budget at Usher with few problems — apart from the usual one of there never being enough money to do all that needed to be done . |
| 17 | His worst time was when the S.S. Oarsman , sailing from Rotterdam to Great Yarmouth , was lost at see with all hands in 1932 . |
| 18 | ( Inconsistent consequences , such as occur with partial reinforcement schedule , act to maintain associability . ) |
| 19 | Note here whether any general types of grammatical construction are used to special effect ; eg comparative or superlative constructions ; coordinative or listing constructions ; parenthetical constructions ; appended or interpolated structures such as occur in casual speech . |
| 20 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |
| 21 | For shear in isotropic materials Hashin & Shtrikman ( 1963 ) , using extremum principles , showed that with . |