Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but erm sitting in a traffic jam this morning I was very concerned to learn that taking effect from tomorrow the government is changing the grant for adaptation for severely handicapped people . |
| 2 | About the new Phoenix machine that er we have n't got a er opportunity for business on anywhere . |
| 3 | When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty . |
| 4 | The nucleon-to-electron ratio varies from unity for hydrogen to about 2.5 for elements with high atomic number , so that any difference in the gravitational force felt by nucleons and electrons would appear as a difference in the gravitational acceleration of elements of high and low atomic number . |
| 5 | The centre is open every afternoon after school between 3.30pm and 5pm and on a Wednesday and Friday evening between 6pm and 9pm . |
| 6 | A bus would repeat itself every hour and he 'd say , run that one down , or that was running it down hour after hour until about seven o'clock when certain buses were run in . |
| 7 | Wave after wave of brilliantly coloured cloth issued from the basket , threatening to engulf her , but she struggled manfully against it , her fingers as fast as light . |
| 8 | We seemed to wrap ourselves in coil after coil of finely spun logic , to raise our pedestal upon a mountain of phrases and formulas and to be unresponsive to the altered mood of those whose opinions we sought to change . |
| 9 | As the day of ‘ our final hour ’ approached our publicity releases continued to whip up public opinion , and I carefully planned the last programme for broadcast from 9pm on the last evening until the station 's license expired with the stroke of midnight . |
| 10 | All departments in the School have strong research activities and are involved with industry through collaboration in both teaching and research . |
| 11 | The Government also seems to favour a cut off time of 8pm , after which children should not be in a bar , but seems open to persuasion as to whether the Licensing Justices should have power to extend that time . |
| 12 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 13 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 14 | In a shrinking Universe the opposite would presumably would be the case : the ‘ arrow ’ would go from future through present to past . |
| 15 | The data from the GMS interview were also analysed using AGECAT , a computerised algorithm which uses ratings on the interview to assign subjects reliably to diagnostic categories at various levels of ‘ caseness ’ ; AGECAT classification at the diagnostic syndrome case level was used as an independent criterion for comparison with both the team and the research diagnoses . |
| 16 | Similarly , in the subarctic moss Dicranum elongatum Heino and Karunen ( 1985 ) found a temperature optimum for photosynthesis of about 10°C , though there was little variation within the range 5–15°C . |
| 17 | In fact , Chubby has only appeared in TV on Opportunity Knocks , New Faces , Starburst and an episode of Play for Today . |
| 18 | It states it shall be the duty of local authorities , there i- , and on that point I , you know , in this area , I do n't think that Wiltshire County Council has done , or spent a great deal of money in actually furthering those . |
| 19 | Sally-Anne could see that the good doctor , as she had naughtily begun to call him , was going to take a great deal of delight in mercilessly teasing her about Mr Sands . |
| 20 | Perhaps you used to go and pawn the husbands suits or a anything like that till the following Saturday or Friday and fetch them out you see , and that cos there was very for people in them days , I mean they did n't get a deal of help from anywhere . |
| 21 | The Roman Catholic Church must take a great deal of credit for consistently arguing the ‘ pro-life ’ case . |
| 22 | Patronage of this type produced a great deal of difficulty for both the church and the politicians , and in 1742 Robert Dundas , lord Arniston , was induced to complain of the |
| 23 | Another variant of utilitarianism which commanded a good deal of support in fairly recent times was rule as opposed to act utilitarianism . |
| 24 | The author has condensed a great deal of material into just over 400 pages and presents it in a reasonably readable style . |
| 25 | In practice it probably did not make a great deal of difference to either party whether or not leases existed , unless or until a serious dispute between them arose . |
| 26 | Bunge , 1959 ) A good deal of illustration of both causation and other nomic connection in science will be provided in due course ( Ch. 5 ) , when we consider neuroscience . |
| 27 | The weather forecast for Nottinghamshire all parts will stay dry today and although there 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 28 | All parts will stay dry today and although they 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 29 | There are a number of different kinds of bomb , some of them known by a variety of colourful synonyms , but in many cases , there is a good deal of argument about exactly how they acquire their shape . |
| 30 | The Mnchener is suing Atlantic Richfield for nearly $150m , alleging that the company knew that the products the unit was developing would never be commercially viable , and according to the Wall Street Journal citing electronic mail messages , one of which says that as it appears the development ‘ is a pipe dream , let Siemens have the pipe , ’ and another that says ‘ We will attempt to finesse past Siemens the fact that we have had a great deal of trouble in successfully transitioning technology from the laboratory to the factory ’ ; Atlantic Richfield denies attempting to mislead Siemens over the unit . |