Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new church was at first served from the cathedral . |
| 2 | Hitler was increasingly the war-lord , at first seen in a positive and ‘ heroic ’ sense , but later more and more in terms of an unyielding , scarcely human harshness which was out of touch with the interests and problems of ordinary people . |
| 3 | IVF , at first touted as a ’ last resort ’ measure for women with blocked tubes , is now being promoted for another group of women , those who can become pregnant but who are ’ carriers ’ of inheritable conditions such as haemophilia , and who may give birth to a child with the condition . |
| 4 | Sweating remained , child labour survived , and reformers could still find terrible poverty to expose , but improving conditions meant rising expectations , even though these were at first limited to a few . |
| 5 | At the local level , sanitary reform was at first hampered by the chaotic diversity of different local bodies ( Flinn 1969 ) . |
| 6 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 7 | While it was at first related to a vocational interest in commerce and administration , it developed during the twentieth century into a specialist and academic science , rather than a field of practical commercial study . |
| 8 | But despite Darwin 's efforts , evolutionism was at first absorbed into the search for a universal order . |
| 9 | As other members of the pride moved in to share the meal , the remaining zebras in the herd at first startled by the drama quickly settled back to grazing . |
| 10 | The author of the Vindiciae similarly asserts that since " none were ever born with crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands , and [ since ] no man can be a king by himself , nor reign without a people … it must of necessity follow , that kings were at first constituted by the people . " |
| 11 | Although the tunnel was at first rejected on the grounds of cost , eventually in 1872 the Severn Tunnel Bill was passed by Parliament and construction began the following year . |
| 12 | Its use in the liturgy was at first opposed by the papacy , but , following the Council of Split in 1079 , both the Old Church Slavonic language and the glagolitic script were permitted to exist in central Dalmatia . |
| 13 | Its functions were not at first regarded by the courts with much enthusiasm . |
| 14 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 15 | Janet had at first demurred at the room ever being used again , let alone so soon after Aunt Emily 's death . |
| 16 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 17 | The Christians , because of the Jewish origin of their religion , at first adhered to the Jewish seven-day week in which the days , except the Sabbath , were numbered but not named . |
| 18 | This company , at first attached to an advertising agency , later became an independent public relations consultancy . |
| 19 | Until Sell 's death in 1915 they were jointly responsible for teaching in the university chemical laboratory , at first located on the east side of the site of the former Botanic Garden and after 1887 in a new building in Pembroke Street . |
| 20 | Quite clearly , as costs were four times direct revenue , 10 per cent ( for example ) saving in costs had much more effect on the balance than did a potential 20 per cent increase in revenue , so energy was at first concentrated on the cost base . |
| 21 | Psychological models of speech recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 , Marslen-Wilson 1975 ) at first concentrated on the way in which sentential context could speed up the process of word recognition in fluent speech . |
| 22 | Despite her discovery of the simpler B pattern , Franklin 's attention was at first directed to the more crystalline A form ; but by March 1953 she had carried the quantitive analysis of the B form patterns to the point where the paths of the backbone chains were determined , and she wrote up her work in a typescript dated 17 March — one day before news of the Watson and Crick structure reached King 's . |
| 23 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 24 | The company was at first commanded by a Captain Short , and later by Major H.M. Williams , who was also on the staff of the LNWR Carriage Department . |
| 25 | When the Wolof children were asked to put together the pictures or objects in an array that were most alike and to give their reasons , the question was at first put in the form ‘ Why do you say ( or think ) that these are alike ? ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Ramaphosa suggested that the government timed the arrests in order to delay the talks precisely when they were at last poised for a breakthrough . |
| 27 | Allan Donald 's hostility was at last rewarded with a wicket off his final delivery from his 12 overs . |
| 28 | Now , alone in Vic 's private world , Mungo at last felt like an intruder . |
| 29 | Into this political maelstrom , Maastricht has at last emerged as an issue , provoking the kind of controversy seen in Britain last year . |
| 30 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |