Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process .
2 A " yes " vote was returned in the June 18 Irish referendum , however , and the French parliament made progress towards ratification later in the month .
3 Below is an example from French , where separate drills of each tense ( already individually mastered ) would be placed side by side preferably in a meaningful frame and drilled across .
4 La irradiación de Miró en el arte espanol ’ September-October ) Opening date in September yet to be decided .
5 Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response .
6 Rugby defies slump to inch ahead at £57.6m
7 arabiensis in the Sudan , show resistance to malathion only in the adult stage and it seems evident that such resistance was not in fact selected by agricultural usage .
8 This is the challenge of real democracy ; it 's very simple to espouse freedom of expression only for those you agree with .
9 ‘ Gentleman , Jim Almonds , immensely tall and a little less boisterous than some of the others , had seen action at Tobruk together with Pat Riley and Jock Lewes .
10 I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in
11 Mr Richardson said : ‘ He caused havoc at universities all round the world , so the computer systems were inaccessible to anyone but him .
12 He took over an existing but derelict blast furnace at Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) which had been set up in 1638 , and in 1709 he discovered the method of smelting iron with coke instead of charcoal .
13 Perhaps the women of the next generation will no longer submit to defloration in the normal way and will give birth to children only on condition of freedom from pain … ’
14 PASSENGERS are causing corrosion of aircraft merely by being on board , say scientists , who are investigating an unexpected corrosion threat caused by smoke , condensation and ‘ other emissions ’ from travellers .
15 Unlike smaller birds which , though more numerous , go to cover to eat , this bird is ‘ fearless ’ and defends the tree against other frugivores and may thus , on two counts , be rather inefficient at promoting dispersal of seeds away from the mother tree .
16 Gary Speed must be the longest serving player at Leeds now with about 5 years .
17 Wilberforce attacked Unitarians as lacking fixed religious dogmas and was attacked in turn , along with other evangelicals , for promoting irrationality in religion precisely through dogmatism about the divinity of Christ and the Trinity while also stressing the reality of the Devil and Hell .
18 TARA , the golden retriever with a theatrical bent , came face to face today with the two little girls who will star with her in the musical Annie .
19 Heavens , if her heart beat like this at the sight of Luke 's stepmother , how would it react when she came face to face again with him ? she thought despairingly .
20 Or are we able to exert freedom of choice regardless of what is determined by other factors ?
21 Characteristic ‘ whee-oo ’ call reveals presence of drake even in fog or at a distance ; duck has purring note .
22 A former tax inspector , he has had experience of power only as head of the regional government in Old Castile and Leon .
23 The organisers of a Dusseldorf trade show for manufacturers withdrew permission to film there after reading a scene in which German businessmen try to trick Wilcox .
24 Mr Colman if I might add that re- orientation has brought with it the need to change our pricing strategy and therefore rather than going package by package right through the whole thirty four , we 're actually trying initially on the engines to go in one bang to price everything on the engines and do it in the next few months .
25 Yeah , abs yeah it 's got sort of polish already in it has it ?
26 A group of 174 infants , toddlers , and preschool children is presented who showed evidence of constipation early in life .
27 This longer run perspective is a feature of Japanese business and is greatly helped by the existence of lead banks within affiliated groups that ensure access to loans even in periods when bank credit is restricted .
28 This longer run perspective is a feature of Japanese business and is greatly helped by the existence of lead banks within affiliated groups that ensure access to loans even in periods when bank credit is restricted .
29 Paul , a third-year English student at Manchester Polytechnic , clearly despairs of his younger colleagues who leave home intent on making whoopee on a grant ; he knows that it is almost inevitable that they will run smack into debt midway through their courses .
30 1* BUDGET policy does not provide cover for contents away from the home .
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