Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind lobbyists , I 'd just rather they called themselves by their proper name as they do in Washington , rather than wittering on for hours about relationships with opinion-formers . |
| 2 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 3 | Women , it is widely believed , are turned down for jobs by men who fear that , without warning , they will take time off to have children . |
| 4 | The discussion groups were relatively open , and many people came along as friends of friends . |
| 5 | ‘ He puts in for grants for bands and things like that . |
| 6 | I do n't go in for numbers as names . |
| 7 | The custom fell out of favour at the turn of this century and I suspect that , as a reaction to the damage the treatment caused , the contrary view that teething is harmless has been passed down through generations of doctors . |
| 8 | Women , who predominated in the junior schools , did not get equal pay in principle until 1955 ( or in reality until 1962 ) , despite a vigorous campaign throughout the 1940s , so yet further inequality was built in between groups of teachers . |
| 9 | In between men with machetes hacked and chopped in a welter of gore . |
| 10 | ‘ It can be broken down into sets of signals , each signal with a specific function . |
| 11 | Perhaps your readers would then like to write in with suggestions for improvements . |
| 12 | If he is an oil sheik he can concentrate on books which have been bedizened with gold and silver , with diamonds , rubies , pearls and the whole galaxy of precious and semi-precious stones ; with rich brocades , velvets , silks and laces , along with skins from ostriches , peacocks , reindeer , elephants and other denizens of field and forest . |
| 13 | The technical implications of this proposal will be investigated during 1993 , along with developments in communications between and within gardens . |
| 14 | Usually , too , with the abandonment of work-in-progress , control over production progress is maintained by physical counts of products demanded and produced , along with measures of defects , stock levels , and so on . |
| 15 | The coffin design I had photocopied and planned to enclose , along with quotes from correspondents , to several of the DIY superstores . |
| 16 | I 'm glad Councillor reminded er Councillor reminded Councillor erm about the introduction of L M S , when over two hundred teachers did appear outside to protest about the introduction of it , along with cuts in budgets . |
| 17 | Along with scores of authors of whom he had never heard he found forgotten friends : Hugh Walpole , John Galsworthy , and the redoubtable Mazo de la Roche , captivator of millions who would now be devotees of TV soap … |
| 18 | The charter outlines patient 's rights along with standards for areas such as waiting times and hospital child care . |
| 19 | On their way to the Lion d'Or , where they were to meet Jack , Iris and Melissa passed old women knitting and gossiping in doorways or leaning out of windows , young women sauntering along with babies in perambulators , and leather-clad youths astride shiny motorbikes parked at the kerbside while they chatted up their mini-skirted girls . |
| 20 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 21 | Just compare a couple of pictures on Sharpe now and then , even Batts was thin when he was 18–19 : - ) You do nt notice this slow down in players like Batts — whose play does nt rely on speed . |
| 22 | The chairs upon which they sat or leaned were gilded or of shining chrome and glass ; bales of material were half unfurled to spill around more silk and satin ; jewellery was flung down in handfuls upon tables or simply on the ground . |
| 23 | We had Chernobyl , we had a series of hijackings , we had outrages at Athens Airport , we had the U S raid on Libya by bombers based in Britain erm and everybody then erm turned the corners of their mouths down and forecast the end of tourism , that doom is nigh , and what actually happened was that erm by the end of nineteen eighty six we were four point three per cent down in terms of numbers on a record nineteen eighty five . |
| 24 | The floor is the worst place of all to store equipment such as typewriters , braillers or even piles of books , especially if they are put down on thoroughfares between desks or tables . |
| 25 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 26 | One way to cut down on cars in cities might be to be to make this form of travel much less convenient , by cutting the number of parking places available in cities , for the public and companies alike — hardly popular measures . |
| 27 | There was mayhem as shrapnel rained down on shoppers from devices placed in cast-iron litter bins less than ten yards apart . |
| 28 | Granted the rich diversity of the phenomena of the biological world , a disagreement over results can generally be put down to differences between animals ( ‘ species or strain differences ’ , for instance ) or to subtle alterations in experimental conditions , and can therefore be fudged or ignored . |
| 29 | TOP CLASS : Down to basics with 14-year-olds James McCallum and Steven Sneddon in the car workshop to be visited by Prince Charles . |
| 30 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things like icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |