Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 2 | We often receive letters about relatively minor matters that can easily be put right after discussion with patients . |
| 3 | Initially , a sleeve sensor was adapted for this purpose in adults and we have now developed the UOS sleeve sensor so that it is small enough for use in children . |
| 4 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 5 | ‘ The substance from that metal container is suited only for consumption by parasites . ’ |
| 6 | Canals were used not only for transport of goods but also for ferrying passengers and for the occasional pleasure trip . |
| 7 | Previously many historians perceived crime as abnormal and peripheral , fit only for study by specialists in deviance . |
| 8 | ‘ 18 ’ Passed as suitable only for exhibition to adults . |
| 9 | ‘ 12 ’ Passed as suitable only for exhibition to persons of 12 or over . |
| 10 | ‘ 15 ’ Passed as suitable only for exhibition to persons of 15 years or over . |
| 11 | There remains the sodium amytal test which is accurate but suitable only for use with candidates for brain surgery . |
| 12 | The preservation qualities of the Somerset Levels have demonstrated to us a wide range of prehistoric woodworking skills and the uses to which wood was put , not only for use in trackways ( Fig. 5 ) hurdles , and so on , but also for making artefacts . |
| 13 | Since the book was compiled , government legislation has made the use of dazomet by amateur gardeners illegal ; it is now approved only for use by professionals . |
| 14 | Recreation is less important for the welfare of animals than the other three as this part is basically for enjoyment of visitors only . |
| 15 | They are of great importance not only as food for birds and mammals , but also in pollination and recycling of nutrients . |
| 16 | Perhaps for lack of alternatives , the left in both countries is gambling on being allowed to fight fair elections , to take power if they win , and then to be able to implement real reforms in government . |
| 17 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 18 | The compost supplied especially for use in modules is best , as it can be compacted firmly ; this makes for blocks which remain in one piece when pressed out of their cells for transplanting . |
| 19 | You could say , in a letter , that you strongly support the creation of a route for walkers and cyclists from Bloomiehall Park to Muirwood Road , especially for use by children to get to school , and that to overcome the present impasse , it might be a good idea to use a Compulsory Purchase Order to acquire the land needed . |
| 20 | Until recently it was assumed that they all persisted as adults , but is has now been shown that the chilling of infective larvae before administration to calves will produce arrested L5 ; hypobiosis at this stage has also been observed in naturally infected calves in Switzerland , Austria and Canada , although the extent to which this occurs naturally after ingestion of larvae in late autumn and its significance in the transmission of the infection has not yet been fully established . |
| 21 | The development of play leads naturally towards involvement in games , which begin in imitative practice such as tying a shoelace , and develop towards symbolic constructions such as of villages or weddings . |
| 22 | This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer . |
| 23 | This implies an average 387 days less of life for inhabitants of the indebted countries . |
| 24 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 25 | Anti-semitism was not a matter only of concern to Jews ; all Social Democrats must campaign against it — or leave the party . |
| 26 | Forget about instep crampons or ones without forward facing points , which are only of interest to walkers . |
| 27 | The connection between the Jews and modernity — conceived as economic and cultural modernization — is one long of concern to sociologists , and dates at least back to the work of Werner Sombart . |
| 28 | But this is incorrect because the " Although … processes " clause is adverbial ( see below under discussion of commas , ) , and so should be separated from the " She … predator " part by a comma . |
| 29 | Khieu Samphan was injured and he and Son Sen , the two Khmer Rouge SNC delegates , were rescued only with difficulty by police and security forces after Hun Sen himself had gone to the scene to appeal for calm . |
| 30 | These will be discussed only with reference to pavements of the main sample . |