Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young males are busy right through adolescence establishing their own home ranges and learning the pecking order among the orangs in their part of the forest . |
| 2 | They offered the chance for specifiers to turn their imaginative ideas into reality . |
| 3 | To meet this requirement , it will be necessary for weighers to keep their own record of tare weighings carried out , including time of taring and where removable parts , eg. sides , rear boards , tarpaulins , sacks , etc. are in use , whether these parts are included in the tare . |
| 4 | With the advent of GIS , it will be increasingly possible for non-cartographers to produce their own maps . |
| 5 | Assistance in all these areas would provide the chance for musicians to develop their own potential and to discover whether there is an audience for their music . |
| 6 | Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality , slapping it down , groaning . |
| 7 | British custom string manufacturers Newtone will talk to you for hours explaining their new range of Burns strings . |
| 8 | After an unfortunate and ill-timed brush with the law , it was almost impossible for Marinello to arrest his downward spiral . |
| 9 | After waiting two years on the back-burner for Batmania to boil itself dry Clean and Sober is finally getting a UK release , allowing Michael Keaton to do his twitching and snorting coke fiend routine without risk of dirtying the caped crusader 's pristine image . |
| 10 | Wilson , another former Forest player , sent over the corner which Shirtliff nodded down for Hirst to score his 19th goal of the season . |
| 11 | Powell 's conversion gave the Welsh students the lead , only for Mardon to find his kicking rhythm in the 81st minute . |
| 12 | These Courts held that since the Arab Organization for Industrialisation had its own legal identity separate from the four member States and enjoyed financial , procedural , and administrative autonomy , the latter could not be bound by obligations entered into on behalf of the Organisation . |
| 13 | John Louis is still searching for riders to complete his 1993 team . |
| 14 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 16 | Philip Redfern suggested it should become standard practice for statisticians to put their professional advice on the record . |
| 17 | A young , newly-arrived Guards officer asked for permission to spend his first weekend at the home of a retired service officer in Co . |
| 18 | It is easy to assume that the law about planning new developments , or changing the environment around us , only affects us when we need to take a positive step — such as applying for permission to extend our own property . |
| 19 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : Grateful thanks are extended to Robertson Research International Limited for permission to use their Southern North Sea reflectance data in this study . |
| 20 | Two methods used by the smuggling firms are bribing local officials to allow them to dump waste in landfills and offering to build ( often low-quality ) incineration and energy-producing plants in destination countries in exchange for permission to burn their toxic waste there . |
| 21 | It also offers unrivalled opportunities for operators to utilise our unique base services . |
| 22 | But to his unfortunate son and daughter ( William Armstrong and Margo Gunn ) he seems to ‘ make Shylock look like Dr. Barnardo ’ as he keeps them in penury with each request for money causing him acute physical pain . |
| 23 | Why does an unstable demand for money make it difficult to control the supply of money ? |
| 24 | But what better place for Swindon to score their first league win of the season . |
| 25 | In a separate Commons debate on the Disability ( Grants ) Bill , which brings in the two new independent living funds , Scott was asked whether local authorities could provide cash for clients to buy their own care . |
| 26 | On the return journey up the incline from Coombe the engine ran out of steam , causing passengers for Plymouth to miss their last connection . |
| 27 | Melody and harmony alone can make complete beauty , but some composers such as Bach created their harmonic textures through counterpoints in such a way that the melodic and harmonic qualities were not reduced but enhanced . |
| 28 | The glitzy building — boasting an address on Bishopsgate , now one of the City 's favoured streets — was opened just three years ago but became an obvious target once the bank needed to put the family silver up for auction to improve its financial standing . |
| 29 | Above all , it was necessary , in the search for quality , for LEAs to have their own direct observation of teaching and learning : " it is important to know whether improvements are needed in the organization of teaching , in the provision of equipment and materials , in the quality of teaching of one or more teachers or in some quite different area " ( Audit Commission 1989:8 ) . |
| 30 | ANOTHER ace looking for funds to continue his winning ways is Darlington 's Ian Todhunter . |