Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's a choice between you and them , either they die or Turry explodes in a spectacular fashion . |
| 32 | Most levels are land-based , but there 's one brilliant part where Turry leaps into a spaceship and sips along , Denaris-style . |
| 33 | He fails with all his devices to attract Alison : where Nicholas succeeds with his direct and unambiguous seizure of Alison ( 3276 – 8 ) . |
| 34 | We had some discussion about competition , if I can use that word , between ourselves and and Leeds , but where Selby sits in in North Yorkshire we are in competition with with more than just West Yorkshire . |
| 35 | Lower Lea or Swalecliffe lies under the shadow of the Iron Age hill fort on Madmarston Hill and the one must have succeeded the other . |
| 36 | Nor will I miss that filthy pub at the end of our road where James insists on going most nights . |
| 37 | Jones & Smith looks like a simple theft case and the defendants should be so charged . |
| 38 | Their homecoming , going to earth and returning to sources , reaches , in a sense , its furthest point in ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ , where Eliot returns to his own St Louis and Massachusetts childhood , to ‘ The life of significant soil ’ , and to the savage meanings associated with such beginnings . |
| 39 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 40 | His wife Kathy , who organised the walk , admits that Ian goes to hell and back on the walks . |
| 41 | Eliminating the risk element in electricity prices is the most important benefit that ICI expects from the planned 1725MW Enron power station on Teesside . |
| 42 | Where the objection does dent it , however , is in the ambiguity of key terms like ‘ fellow countrymen ’ , something that MacIver points to . |
| 43 | Although Warburton acts as co-ordinator for the association , meetings will be held alternately at different company headquarters . |
| 44 | Staff at the Maison Blanche hospital found that although Danielle seems to be a deaf-mute , she is not familiar with hearing aids and does n't know how to lip-read . |
| 45 | Staff at the Maison Blanche hospital found that although Danielle seems to be a deaf-mute , she is not familiar with hearing aids and does n't know how to lip-read . |
| 46 | Just as the shaman uses rhythms and natural psychedelics to conjure healing visions for the tribe , so Colin argues for raves as techno-pagan festivals , the potential site for a spiritual hedonism , a place where beats , psychedelics , dance and light can reconnect people with nature , transforming their vision of the world . |
| 47 | This is approved on the understanding that RVA works in closer partnership with Christian Aid . |
| 48 | There is the troubling dictum of Lord Roskill in Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 that Caldwell applies to all offences , unless Parliament otherwise ordains , but that statement has not been followed in non-fatal offences . |
| 49 | Although Unger argues against biological explanations of homosexuality , she collapses non-heterosexual identities into a single , deviant , implicitly biological category by claiming that the ‘ examination of homosexuals and transsexuals and the like … can tell us much about how gender identity usually develops ’ ( 1979 : 139 ) . |
| 50 | This dilemma is given prominence in the distinction that Nizan draws between " balance-sheet novels " ( " romans-bilan " ) , which take stock of a finalised historical period , and " problem-centred novels " ( " romans-probleme " ) which focus on contemporary issues . |
| 51 | The conclusion that Nizan draws from this is the need to displace the focus of attention in the novel away from an outdated preoccupation with individual psychology and to direct the reader 's attention to the complex interaction between the public and the private spheres , to focus in short on the tragic destiny that links the individual to his social group and his social environment.66 Special attention , in other words , was to be paid to the political and social dimension of human existence . |
| 52 | The Proconsul is not interested in the fact that Polycarp believes in the existence of another god . |
| 53 | The hospital does more for Britons in a week than Windsor does in a decade . |
| 54 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 55 | The dust allergy means that Will has to be bedded on paper , and his hay always has to be soaked . |
| 56 | The words ‘ more contentiously ’ are an admission that the whole case for lesbianism is not provable ; indeed , with respect to the poem she is discussing , neither Sappho nor Mira woos in any discernible way . |
| 57 | It is becoming increasingly essential that Carling recovers from his strained thigh muscle in time for Saturday 's first Test against the All Blacks . |
| 58 | The ape that Alison makes of Absolon , the excluded potential lover ( 3389 ) , re-emerges as John the clerk after Alayn has jumped into bed with Malyne ( 4202 ) , while throughout the night the miller , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " ( 3935 ) is left in the same position . |
| 59 | Several areas that CPRW considers of ‘ extreme environmental sensitivity ’ are currently being offered to oil companies by the DTI ( see map ) . |
| 60 | But erm oh they 're a great family they really are but I think George and J Joy 's having Edmund because although Dan lives in the town er what 's it called , New Haven ? |