Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of the world-beating copies are on sale today in areas that went short . |
| 2 | This challenges the assumption that such programmes are of interest only to a specialist few : |
| 3 | Swindon who won their first point on saturday are at home tomorrow to manchester city … just like old times with Brian Horton back in Central South … so much for football we 've got some new champions to celebrate tonight … |
| 4 | Swindon who won their first point on saturday are at home tomorrow to manchester city … just like old times with Brian Horton back in Central South … so much for football we 've got some new champions to celebrate tonight … |
| 5 | The ties are on sale exclusively at the Palace gift shop for twenty pounds a piece . |
| 6 | Left-wing parties are in trouble all over Western Europe . |
| 7 | Town Reserves are in action tonight against Crystal Palace Reserves at Ram Meadow , Bury St Edmunds ( kick off 7.30 ) . |
| 8 | Many of How 's clients were in court today for what they 'd hoped would be the final day of a complex five week trial . |
| 9 | PEAS capital gains tax savings were of value only to those whose capital gains had in the given year exceeded the free allowance — not a predicament in which the average punter found himself . |
| 10 | There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay . |
| 11 | A large aerogenerator programme is at present underway in the Netherlands where it is hoped that wind will be supplying about one quarter of Dutch electricity demand by the year 2000 . |
| 12 | Niki 's three hard-earned points made the score 64 to 47 and the race was no sooner ended than the Ferrari dirty-tricks brigade was at work again in Paris , wrapping up their exclusion of Hunt from the podium at Brands Hatch . |
| 13 | They had seen that the volcano was in eruption even before dropping anchor ; many of them had come up on deck to see the spectacle . |
| 14 | One of these clients was in fact still at home in March 1989 . |
| 15 | Paintings by Van Gogh , Degas and Turner are on show together in one theatre — and every one of them 's a fake . |
| 16 | For an update of what I have in stock you can give me a ring anytime , but visits are by appointment only at the moment . |
| 17 | The incident took place when Charlie and his long time friend and fellow Celtic Boys ' Club colleague Willie McStay were on holiday together in Ibiza . |
| 18 | ENGLAND were in trouble again in Madras yesterday as their second Test hopes dwindled , with Sachin Tendulkar 's teenage genius , plus important knocks from both Praveen Amre and Kapil Dev , rubbing salt into their wounds . |
| 19 | In a sense then , the fate of Simmel 's work is at present parallel to that of Hegel 's , in as much as later authorities have appropriated his ideas and aligned them with a theory of rupture seen as specific to capitalism . |
| 20 | Stylistics as a branch of literary studies can draw on this kind of work , but its concerns must in general be very different , because from a literary point of view the linguistic form of texts is of interest only in certain respects . |
| 21 | It is doubly ironic that Philip 's sense of intellectual and spiritual degradation is in fact very like Eliot 's , and his life risks being as impoverished and as meaningless as Sweeney 's minimalist ‘ brass tacks ’ scenario . |
| 22 | Much of his work was on pottery already in museum collections , or as a pottery assistant to Bushe-Fox , but at Templebrough , he was director of the excavations which had been made necessary by the extension of the large steel works at the end of the Great War . |
| 23 | That particular proposal was of interest only to the limited number of countries which have huissiers de justice , which prompted Professor Graveson when the issue was discussed in 1960 to express the traditional preference of the British Government for bilateral conventions , but the topic attracted more general interest and it was decided to re-examine the whole range of possibilities . |
| 24 | Among the oils , British Petroleum was under pressure again after Thursday 's huge below-the-market transaction between Salomon Brothers and County NatWest . |
| 25 | Now Witney Town are in action tonight in the first round , first leg of the Southern League Cup against Gloucester ; special guest tonight will be the Sheffield Wednesday manager , Ron Atkinson . |
| 26 | Collections of dried plants are of interest only to the dedicated or desiccated botanist ; and much the same applies to systematic collections of beetles or of fleas . |
| 27 | Sufferers get better in the Fellowships ; treatment centres and counsellors are of value only in so far as they help sufferers towards an understanding of the principles and processes of the Fellowships . |
| 28 | But as he was profoundly unconvincing , and as another place is at present still considering the English position , I would not wish to force the point on the House . |
| 29 | When benefits in kind are considered , the balance of the redistribution is in fact significantly in favour of the most prosperous households that typically enjoy more take-up of education through children staying on at school and more benefits with regard to health care . |
| 30 | But war was under way again in southern Angola , the team faced obvious difficulties and had to rely on information from the Angolan government . |