Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [det] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 2 | But the radical interpreter could re-interpret the dyadic sign as ‘ bird on water ’ or ‘ bird and water ’ or ‘ wet feathers ’ or ‘ reflection of bird ’ or in any one of many ways . |
| 3 | The distance from cape to cape is eighteen leagues [ 62 land miles ; 100 km ] or at most twenty to twenty-two [ 69–76 miles ; 111–122 km ] with the bends of the island coastline . |
| 4 | One possible alternative means of raising revenue , a graduated income tax , was advocated largely by socialists and as such tainted in the eyes of the main political parties . |
| 5 | That 's right , yeah , that 's it , yes , and about that tall with a sort of round top and a slim bit and then legs , four legs on the bottom , |
| 6 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 7 | Actually , I I think you 're all aware of , that we caused some number of issues on that Wednesday afternoon and for that half of our systems . |
| 8 | Like the style of coverage or not , we undoubtedly saw far more cricket than we ever would have done had BBC had the contract , and for that I for one am profoundly grateful and not ashamed to admit that I purchased my Sky system purely because it was producing coverage of cricket that otherwise would not be available on TV . |
| 9 | ‘ I know what a worry high interest rates are for families with mortgages and for those involved in farming and small businesses , ’ she said . |
| 10 | These are essentially isolated from the main curricular work of a school and for those involved in them the profile has its own validity in the same way that , for example , RSA typing examinations have always done . |
| 11 | The phasing in of a standardised unit specification will have implications both for centres delivering SCOTVEC units , and for those involved in writing their own units . |
| 12 | ‘ The Ministry of Transport became the highway authority for 4459 miles of main roads , by the Trunk Roads Act of 1936 , and for another 3685 by that of 1946 ’ ( Lipman 1949:210 ) . |
| 13 | As things are , the army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and of all those for whom society has no use . ’ |
| 14 | As a result we tried to understand the reactions and attitudes , both of those who kept in touch with a member of the birth family and of those involved in the ‘ clean break ’ approach . |
| 15 | And of those tens of thousands the overwhelming number were decent , god-fearing men and women . |
| 16 | Because of this insider 's knowledge , I chose to record my fieldnotes surreptitiously and with much burning of the midnight oil . |
| 17 | Whilst top-up insurance cover will be left to the discretion of individuals and firms , a recognised body corporate will have to effect cover of at least £500,000 on an each and every claim basis ( or £2 million pa on an aggregate basis ) over and above that available to solicitors ' partnerships through the Indemnity Fund . |
| 18 | He wished the administration of Japan under his direction to be seen as positive , challenging and above all successful in laying the foundations for political and economic achievement in Japan . |
| 19 | But many monetarist writers recognized that deviations from Y * ; and L * ; do in fact occur over and above those attributable to white noise disturbances . |
| 20 | More research is needed to improve the amount and quality of information on the relationship between reproductive patterns and maternal health ; to assess whether and how women in developing and developed countries are differentially affected ; and to separate effects that are social and economic , from those relating to medical care and technology and from those due to the biological factors of age , parity and inter-birth interval . |
| 21 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 22 | Close to its crest lies an outcrop of particularly fine shales and in these some of the most perfectly preserved fossils in the world have been discovered . |
| 23 | This means that the group behaviour at successive specific antibody secreting cells measurement points was different : in patients with positive clinical response to the challenge the mean number of specific antibody secreting cells increases and in those negative to the clinical challenge it decreases . |
| 24 | Subsequent checks on 10 of 16 PWRs in France revealed similar problems , as did checks on five of 14 in Germany , and on all three in Switzerland . |
| 25 | Last year your film correspondent , William Parente , suggested that the last real subject left for the British film industry to tackle was the Highland Clearances , a subject of relevance to the Gaels , their current political context , and to many thousands of Scots around the world . |
| 26 | Through you , Mr. Speaker , I wish to apologise unreservedly to the families involved in Friday 's bombing , to those who represent them in this House , and to all those in our wider society who would have taken wholly justified offence . |
| 27 | It is obvious that image is important , both to the young woman concerned with her self-image and to those involved in promoting a certain kind of image , a certain look . |
| 28 | This applies equally to members of module review groups and to those involved in making proposals for additions to the Catalogue . |
| 29 | And to those concerned with national population projections . |
| 30 | Now , if d 3 and e 3 satisfy the constraints of P1* and at most one of d 3 , e 3 is positive , then . |