Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Seeds collected now can be tested for resistance either this year or at some time in the future , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 3 | All the usual commands are accepted , along with a few unique nouns invented by the author — LOUN for LOOK UNDER , LOBE for LOOK BEHIND , etc . |
| 4 | Now he has his leg in plaster … and is under strict orders from wife Angela to stay calm when Christie bids for glory again today in the 200 metres . |
| 5 | In the Declaration of Arbroath they made their principles splendidly clear : For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise submit to the rule of the English , for it is not for glory alone we fight , for riches , or for honours , but for freedom , which no good man loses but with his life . |
| 6 | ‘ HARLEY HOT IN PURSUIT OF COOL SWEDE ’ read the headline , and the first sentence ran : ‘ Brian Harley , the golfer who was on the scrapheap a year ago , continued his early season bid for glory yesterday with a brave round of sixty-eight to leave him one shot behind the cold-eyed Swedish ace , Bjorn Carlssen . ’ |
| 7 | The Casa Republicii was the symbol of Ceauşescu 's indifference to the well-being of the current generation of Romanians as much as Versailles was the embodiment of Louis XIV 's quest for glory regardless of the sufferings of his own people . |
| 8 | This may be why in our study , histamine and cimetidine together had similar inhibitory effects in vivo as cimetidine alone . |
| 9 | He shed his array of colour pencils , dropping them haphazard into the grass , hesitated whether to shed his tweed jacket , too , and then , considering its worn condition , buttoned it closely for protection instead . |
| 10 | The Old Town , built in a time of strife , occupies a fairly small area and nestles for protection close to the Castle . |
| 11 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 12 | Dick Corden dropped a bombshell on relegation-haunted Darlington when he resigned as chairman yesterday . |
| 13 | Sir Colin Marshall , who replaced Lord King as chairman earlier this month , said around 60 per cent of the profits fall related to the decline of sterling , which fell 15 per cent against the dollar during the period . |
| 14 | First , the therapist is placing responsibility for change firmly on the client 's shoulders , reinforcing the notion that people help themselves . |
| 15 | But the initial simple desire for change soon took on a more sinister hue when Rupert Murdoch completely switched his printing operation from Fleet Street to Wapping in the East End of London . |
| 16 | A survey identified high levels of consensus around key areas for change in acute services which has made the setting of some priorities for change easier . |
| 17 | The new regulations were , at first , systematically evaded by all those with vested interests and he recognized that to pursue the path he had begun he was going to have to reinforce the need for change again and again . |
| 18 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 19 | The existence of the process element means that evaluation is usually oriented towards detection of need for change rather than towards choice between temporally co-existing alternatives . |
| 20 | Campaigning for change worldwide |
| 21 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 22 | He tends to opt for change merely because team A have had a go and it is time to give team B a chance . |
| 23 | If the established set-up survives the pressures for change then the established constitutional theory will be of use as a rough guide to political and governmental practice , but if that set-up " breaks " then the established theories will be left beached . |
| 24 | AMES wishes to see the FDR-FMLN adopt a " Minimum Women 's Programme " as part of its published manifesto and believes that as far as conditions permit , it is necessary to work for change now . |
| 25 | People with a low tolerance for change therefore tend to fight hard to maintain the status quo , often without being able to articulate their reasons for so doing . |
| 26 | Taking part in the arts should also be viewed as a tool for change as much as attending meetings about , say , orange badge provision . |
| 27 | Project 2000 argued the necessity for change as much in terms of keeping pace with service needs and professional nursing developments as tackling the deficiencies of existing nurse training and the challenges posed to recruitment by demographic trends . |
| 28 | It might be thought that in a reign which saw bitter struggles between king and nobles the church , if astutely led , could gain some significant concessions in exchange for support carefully distributed . |
| 29 | ‘ We all rely heavily on our families and friends for support especially at this time , so the event was very much an occasion for families , to say thank you , and to allow visitors to experience the vast scale of the project . |
| 30 | There is also the possibility that alter a time a support bureaucracy generates its own needs for support quite independently of the front-line units . |