Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 2 | Only a handful of reporters now cover the inquiry , and their stories slip day by day down the news schedules , overtaken by fresh nightmares and by disasters which are simpler , easier to comprehend . |
| 3 | My own favourite , putting price aside , was the Western Systems , but if you want value for money then the Phoenix is well worth a look . |
| 4 | Higher taxes and minority earnings in Germany drove earnings per share down a sharper 38 p.c. to 36p . |
| 5 | Art could not speak , he had become so used to meeting Daphne for lunch once a week , it was part of his life , he felt shocked , strange , bereft . |
| 6 | If one believes that industries should be owned by the government then one will argue that the level of taxation should be such that , taken with the government 's other financial resources , it should provide capital for investment wherever the government considers it necessary . |
| 7 | But the offspring will only favour acts of altruism where the benefit exceeds the cost discounted by the figure we agreed . |
| 8 | Set side by side again the pieces do n't exactly match . |
| 9 | A runaway hamster called Sophie takes pride of place where the school rat once roamed . |
| 10 | It can cost £2,000-£3,000 to kit out a disabled person with all the equipment needed to communicate . |
| 11 | We therefore , by the end of the year , will have staff in place where the full year commitment to paying for those staff is in fact some six hundred and eighty six thousand pounds . |
| 12 | You can have cup of soup out the machine for about twenty pence . |
| 13 | Or leaving the dark glimmering interior in winter when the ice wind bit through your leggings , mittens and embroidered button holes . |
| 14 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 15 | First , if Mars acquired volatiles during accretion then the interior could be less thoroughly outgassed than that of the Earth , and this is in accord with the evidence for the lower level of geological activity on Mars . |
| 16 | Because of the difficulty of assessing software before purchase i.e. the lack of objective reviews at the time and the fact that no " on approval " facilities were available , several bad purchases were made when software was first acquired . |
| 17 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 18 | The conditions attaching to grant are that the D S S transfer , eighty five percent of it has to be spent on the independent sector , and there are monitoring mechanisms in place whereby the government is going to assure itself that has happened . |
| 19 | ( b ) CCBE Code of conduct Both the Bar Council and the Law Society have ratified the Code of conduct adopted by the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community as providing a common basis for professional regulation . |
| 20 | See Dentdale in summer when the hay meadows are on fire with wild flowers and the roadsides are crowded with the pale lilac of the bell flowers and you will find it hard to disagree with one early writer 's description of Dentdale as " an earthly paradise " , even if it does have a vampire buried in its churchyard . |