Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The poems are of course cleverly written but that is only to be expected of a writer of John Bitumen 's calibre . |
| 32 | Socialists had of course always argued that there was something fundamentally wrong with capitalist progress ( and for this reason I shall concentrate on their attitudes ) . |
| 33 | His 12 strikes in the 1st Division in 1989–90 were an important feature of Palace 's creditable showing there , while our fans will of course always remember that it was Mark 's crashing drive at the start of the second half that began our recovery against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final and , ultimately , helped to take us to Wembley . |
| 34 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 35 | This corporate issuer must review this range of activities carefully to ensure that the risk of underpricing the bonds is minimised . |
| 36 | Her piles of patterns just grew and grew , |
| 37 | The Hungarians attempted to create a marcher zone to protect their frontier against the Turks by supporting Bosnian resistance in the area between Jajce and the Sava , but after the battle of Mohács in 1526 these pockets of resistance soon collapsed and virtually all Bosnia and Hercegovina lay under the rule of the sultans until the late nineteenth century . |
| 38 | The claim for a straightforward oppositional kind of resistance also assumes that subjects can resist from a position outside the operations of power , according to the dominant inside/outside model of conventional politics . |
| 39 | This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts . |
| 40 | Indeed , health is a complex and multi-faceted entity which often defies the best efforts of researchers either to define or measure . |
| 41 | This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds . |
| 42 | Fénéon possessed a dry wit , honed to a sharp edge by journalism ; he was a specialist in the sort of notes usually titled as ‘ News in brief ’ , but in France called ‘ faits divers ’ ( Sundry facts ) . |
| 43 | But the fact that the crusaders — and western monarchs in the twelfth century — did not abandon their style of cavalry strongly suggests that the mounted knight was still a very effective weapon , as well as being increasingly the symbol of social status . |
| 44 | Where tin was absent , as in Colombia , it could be used as an alloy for copper to make tumbaga , a kind of gold-bronze easier to cast than tin-bronze and capable of reproducing finer detail . |
| 45 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |
| 46 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 47 | Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality . |
| 48 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 49 | Apart from the lack of noise and disturbance , which balls of groundbait normally cause when carrying hookbait samples to distant swims , there is the added , and greater , advantage that loose feed can be introduced on the ‘ little and often ’ principle . |
| 50 | The 1904 School Regulations refer to the " group of subjects commonly classed as " English " and including the English language and literature , Geography and History " . |
| 51 | Any reader literal enough to doubt Quinn 's success in those matters is likely to be diverted by the thrust and crackle of action rapidly described and by the element of chance so quickly exploited by the boy . |
| 52 | The curvature of space–time also means that identical clocks at different gravitational potentials must run at different rates . |
| 53 | What we are going to do is differentiate the average product function the average product , right , is the quotient of total product right , and the the amount of labour actually used and as a result if you want to differentiate it you can use a quotient rule of differentiation . |
| 54 | John Monk of Books Etc felt that the hotlines did no work as well as in previous years . |
| 55 | Those who subscribe to the Institute 's Proceedings say that one of the most valuable contributions it makes has been the books that are reviewed by our members and this listing of books recently published or announced . |
| 56 | The common duty of care does not impose on an occupier any obligation to a visitor in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by the visitor … |
| 57 | Section 1(6) states : No duty is owed by virtue of this section to any person in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by that person ( the question of whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another ) . |
| 58 | Eduardo Villaseñor of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , who had been inaugurated in September as governor of the western state of Michoacán [ see p. 39089 ] , asked on Oct. 6 for a " one-year leave of absence " , a form of words effectively meaning that he was resigning . |
| 59 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 60 | The First Law of Thermodynamics basically states that energy has never been observed to be created or destroyed . |