Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time I was strongly in favour of sanctions , and I supported the dispatch of American troops to Saudi Arabia , according to Bush , to deter an attack on that country ; though I would not myself have acceded to an American request to put British ground troops there , and I think many people in the Ministry of Defence argued strongly against that . |
| 2 | I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club . |
| 3 | The government on Sept. 24 granted foreign institutions permission to invest directly in all stock market operations . |
| 4 | A decision to go ahead with this approach to the formation of a company file was taken in January this year and the initial test files became available during April . |
| 5 | at our next meeting is there anyone else you need to consult before making the decision to proceed now at this point , it 's coming to the end of the first appointment , you 're pretty sure you 're on your way so the pressure is off , he 's feeling fairly relaxed and hopefully he 's enjoyed the whole sale process with you , so what should his re his response be ? |
| 6 | Whenever the conference adjourned , I noticed , as no doubt his lordship did with some concern , that Mr Lewis would quickly take M. Dupont away to some corner or other where they could confer quietly . |
| 7 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 8 | And I would again ask to have money given specifically for this you know , for this purpose . |
| 9 | Utilitarianism agrees well with these adaptational functions . |
| 10 | I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science . |
| 11 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |
| 12 | It is the excuse given now for all hunting , but the misuse of a concept of a practice like that proves nothing about whether it is itself legitimate . |
| 13 | In the first place , the left has a strong tradition of defying authority , and smoking fits neatly into this . |
| 14 | That Newbury goes so well is entirely due to Mick and Julie Turrell and their long experience as organisers , plus their willingness to work hard for those who attend . |
| 15 | The difficulty lies principally in that , whereas most scientists and engineers operate in a three-dimensional world capable of reasonable representation on a television screen , the multivariate nature of data analysis goes far beyond this into a space of m dimensions conceivable to the human mind only as an abstraction . |
| 16 | Esther , having thus fulfilled her obligations to her friends , forgot them both instantly , and returned her attention to a volume called The Vegetation of Medieval Europe and a German monograph on Sodoma ; works which she was reading and annotating by her own interleaved system , a system which had evolved from her inability to concentrate fully on any one topic for more than ten minutes . |
| 17 | One you are accepted , payment drops straight into this ‘ business ’ account every fortnight . |
| 18 | As we start afresh to build a new church , we have a heaven sent opportunity to try again for this possibility of godly unity which , if we let it , will be so powerful in persuading the world of the divinity of Jesus . |
| 19 | The child care initiative launched by my predecessor involving expenditure of over forty million pounds over the period is giving training and enterprise councils the opportunity to come forward with some very imaginative and innovative schemes . |
| 20 | My sympathy lies squarely with those who refused to be part of the South African sham in order to remain eligible to play at the highest level , but who now find that they will probably lose that chance . |
| 21 | It contains a solution to the problem ( in Bayes 's words ) : ‘ Given the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed : Required the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named . ’ |
| 22 | Her heart beat erratically at that but she managed to shake her head in disbelief . |
| 23 | In many ways it was an advantage to work broadly with such a mass of detail — cranes , windows , cars and a myraid of tower blocks . |
| 24 | Just got a bit carried away with all the excitement of storming the building and everything . |
| 25 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 26 | For the record this shirt looks uncomfortably like those worn around my area when Oxford were doing particularly well . |
| 27 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 28 | The ‘ narrow approach ’ assumed that the rule applied generally to all proceedings in which public law acts or decisions where challenged , subject to some exceptions when private law rights were involved . |
| 29 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 30 | The whole mechanism and technique of this instrument differs absolutely from those of the woodwind . |