Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Sacher Torte ’ cake was available for purchase at something like £3 a mouthful . |
| 2 | But if a landowner deliberately collects rabbits or game on his land for any purpose , he is liable for damage by them to neighbouring owners if it is caused by his ‘ extraordinary , non-natural or unreasonable action . ’ |
| 3 | However , I have concluded that taking an advert would not represent the best value for money for us in this instance . |
| 4 | So you do n't hang around for money in our in our company . |
| 5 | In the course of its provincial party convention on March 9-10 , the ruling Liberal Party in Quebec adopted the Allaire report which called for almost full political autonomy for the province , contrary to the proposals put forward in the Meech Lake Accord [ for collapse of which in June 1990 see p. 37519 ] and despite the opposition of the party leader and Quebec Premier , Robert Bourassa . |
| 6 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 7 | Too much may have happened within a matter of days after completion for it to be practical to reverse the sale . |
| 8 | Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) . |
| 9 | Instinct attached my hands to the reins as she accelerated and headed for home with me in tow . |
| 10 | It leaves them wide open for dismissal by anybody with a basic knowledge of debating tactics . |
| 11 | I venture to ask , again , for your permission to pay her my addresses , and for marriage between us at an early date . |
| 12 | Delegates from the Basic Law Drafting Committee [ for formation of which in August 1988 see p. 36765 ] visited Macao during 1989 and 1990 ; on March 17 , 1990 , mainland and Macao members of the Drafting Committee , at the end of 13-day visit to Macao by the mainland members , attended a public hearing meeting organized by the Advisory Committee , and a further meeting between members of the Advisory and Drafting Committees was held on April 17 . |
| 13 | Sharing a glass of whisky with him in his Montpelier Square home , you were liable to be quizzed about theories of antibody formation , David Bohm 's work , or any one of 101 other topical issues that had caught his attention . |
| 14 | By January 1987 , when it was clear that X Window really worked across multi-vendor networks , there was a joint statement of support for it by Apollo , Data General , DEC , Hewlett-Packard , Masscomp , Siemens and Sony , amongst others ( not IBM ) . |
| 15 | Anita Saada had children of similar ages to Laura 's and was to become a staunch source of support to her over the years . |
| 16 | I have written to Mrs on behalf of the Council expressing our sorrow and extending a message of support to her in her and her family at this sad time . |
| 17 | ‘ I am just so relieved we are on the verge of getting a much more sensible system of payment to them after all this time . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it awoke an unexpected flood of tenderness towards him in her , because it made him so very human , this man of whom she had once been so deeply in awe and whose power over her still unnerved her when she reflected on the realities of their relationship . |
| 19 | Most of the book is arranged in the form of a week of prayer in which for each day there is an order of Adoration , Confession of Sin , a Prayer for Grace , a Confession of Faith and an Intercession . |
| 20 | Charles no longer bothered to hide his disappointment , but his salute was impeccable and he made a lot of noise with his about turn and exit . |
| 21 | But the experience had been short and isolated and the moonlight had given it a sufficient touch of unreality for me to be able to fire my machine gun at everything I saw without scruple . |
| 22 | We think they have a special and complex responsibility of impartiality among the members of the community and of partiality toward them in dealings with strangers . |
| 23 | There is some provision made within the law for copying a work of part of it without the need to obtain permission . |
| 24 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 25 | It is also possible of course for there to be uncertainty attached to the forward rate , which could lead to the reverse inequality in ( 5.42 ) holding . |
| 26 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 27 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 28 | ‘ I bring a lot of experience with me in this campaign , ’ he says . |
| 29 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 30 | Ballater had , on that visit , thought the place loathsome — it still was — but he had felt a degree of sympathy with her for wanting to stay . |