Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | At point B workers have been pushed off their labour supply function but employers remain on their labour demand function , albeit at a different point . |
| 3 | These guys do anything , you know , U turns in the middle of anywhere , they , they can do it , you ca n't . |
| 4 | You might expect Ashley Newton to agree with Clarke . |
| 5 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 6 | One general index calculated from death and population information is the crude death rate . |
| 7 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 8 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 9 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 10 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 11 | Rules change on pets likely |
| 12 | Rules change on Monday for disabled drivers using orange badge parking discs . |
| 13 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 14 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 15 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 16 | The following month he publicly waived the death sentence hanging over the organizers of the second coup attempt of 1983 . |
| 17 | Tony and I reckon that when Matt goes to heaven he 'll have his nose in an Ordnance Survey Map and he 'll be saying , " If I remember rightly there should be an old bloke around here with long grey hair and a grey beard and a long white nightie on . |
| 18 | At first sight , the picture of word-meaning given by patterns of affinity and disaffinity is , at least in some respects , different from the picture given by semantic traits . |
| 19 | The queen asked how the groups got on coming from so many different backgrounds and cultures , and if they were making any new recruits . |
| 20 | Fat chance of that , or of persuading Jessica to go with her to Aunt Jane 's in Port Erin . |
| 21 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 22 | This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities . |
| 23 | Children are made especially welcome in Leogang — there are lots of activities arranged for them . |
| 24 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 25 | In the seventeenth century none of the Russian peasants in any of the regions of mass settlement lived without fear . |
| 26 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 27 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 28 | Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world . |
| 29 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 30 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |